Medical Xpress March 21, 2025
Claire Lindell had to wait months for treatment when doctors in April 2020 were forced to suddenly cancel the little girl’s spine surgery.
The delay was particularly stressful because the operation addressed several issues, including the four-year-old’s high risk of respiratory infection, such as from the emerging COVID-19 virus.
“That was a tough period,” recalled her father, A.J. Lindell of Prior Lake, Minnesota.
Five years later, Claire’s health care journey has gone well. And the Lindells, who always kept paying health insurance premiums even when care was unavailable, help illustrate an intriguing financial backstory with the pandemic.
Hospitals and clinics in Minnesota and across the country were frantically preparing five years ago this spring to conserve resources for an expected...
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