Opinion: Healthcare in America is dysfunctional – but its lack of transparency is downright dangerous

NBC News December 29, 2019
Francesca Fiorentini, journalist and comedian

Getting health care in this country is still so circuitous it often does feel like a secret — a maze deciphered in private that’s never quite mastered.

Wow, you survived cancer? What’s your secret to health care?

As absurd as that sounds, it’s a question many Americans who get sick are still asking as we ring in the year 2020. Getting health care in this country is still so circuitous it often does feel like a secret — a maze deciphered in private that’s never quite mastered. The reward for solving it? Perhaps your life; perhaps the loss of your life savings. And that’s if you’re lucky.

Even with the Affordable Care Act, almost 30 million are without health insurance...

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