At some point your life you’ll have to deal with a hospital bill. If you’re lucky it’ll be for an outpatient service like lab work or an x-ray instead of needing surgery or being an inpatient. steinchen via Pixabay Hopefully you’ll have insurance to take care of the bulk of the bill, no matter what […]

We’re in a tough place these days as it pertains to health care. Depending on which side you’re on, it’s either the fault of the hospitals, doctors, insurance companies, states, or the federal government. I’d throw the legal system into the mix as well as banks, suppliers and pharmaceutical companies. I could add to the […]

(originally published January 25th, 2006) Though it hasn’t happened to me yet, at some point all of us are going to spend a little bit of time in the hospital, or know someone who’s spent some time in the hospital. Hospitals are expensive places for many reasons I’m not going to get into now. What […]