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The $300 Band-Aid: Surprises In Medical Bills

When a medical emergency lands someone in the hospital, insult is often added to injury by bills that can put families tens of thousands of dollars in debt. Dr. Marty Makary, a surgeon and professor of health policy at Johns Hopkins University, joins host Krys Boyd to talk about the medical debt that consumes one in five Americans, which he writes about in “The Price We Pay: What Broke American Healthcare – And How to Fix It.”