Surprise bills have become the scourge of U.S. healthcare, and despite many promises, policymakers have remained mostly feckless at stopping them. New accounts now report that surprise bills have hit people seeking care for COVID19.
. This prevents patients from making fully informed decisions about their health care, and it removes much-needed price competition from health care markets. More important, it denies individuals their autonomy as informed patients and consumers.
I felt this lack of personal agency well before the woman from the admissions department visited me in the ICU. Preceding my surgery, I wandered hospital hallways in a patient gurney, feeling exposed and layered with unwanted sympathy. Only a few weeks before, I walked these same hallways as a faculty member who lectured to physicians and staff. Like all other patients, I lost part of myself when I submitted to my physician's care.
American medicine will continue to fail – it will continue to cost unsustainable amounts without nurturing a healthy population – if it continues to deny patients their agency as willing and informed partners in their care. All of us deserve protection from surprise bills, and all of us deserve protection from arbitration processes that will inflate health care costs. But most critically, we deserve to enjoy the autonomy as patients that we have in other parts of our lives.
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