No matter the moniker (beneficiary, patients-as-consumers, healthcare consumers, policyholders), the economics-speak of healthcare reform places the person at the very center of it — the patient — left to assess two very basic questions with each care encounter: (1) Did I get my reason for access to a mode of care addressed? and (2) [How much] will I have to pay for it? Seems as though this poor soul is not too happy about having to acknowledge this bit of healthcare cognitive dissonance.

“Why am I being billed for services I never wanted to get?? Because health care providers think they can simply do what they want and people will have to pay for it, or their insurance company will. That is wrong.”

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