Deseret News March 4, 2021
Aubrey Eyre, Opinion writer

My experiences dealing with the health care systems here in the U.S. can be summed up in two words: expensive and complicated.

Although I have always been stringent about taking care of my health, I was diagnosed with an unexpected and debilitating autoimmune disease in early adulthood that has forever changed the way I live and how I look at health care and our systems for managing it.

Whether it is the hours I spend battling with insurance providers on the phone about which aspects of my health care are actually covered and at what rate, or the time going back and forth from speaking to my doctor and then to the pharmacy and then to insurance and then back...

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