The Real Cost of Healthcare: How Insurers Benefit While Patients Foot the Bill

The Real Cost of Reduced Payments in Healthcare

Weeks after undergoing heart surgery, Gail Lawson found herself back in an operating room. Her incision wasn’t healing, and an infection was spreading. At a hospital in Ridgewood, New Jersey, Dr. Sidney Rabinowitz performed a complex, hourslong procedure to repair tissue and close the wound. While recuperating, Lawson phoned the doctor’s office in a panic. He returned the call himself and squeezed her in for an appointment the next day. “He was just so good with me, so patient, so kind,” she sai...