Biden admin orders an end to surprise billing

But without legal reform, the next president could reverse it.

Cory Doctorow
5 min readJul 2, 2021

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An emergency room entrance with a guillotine out front of it.

Of all the dysfunctions of the famously cursed US healthcare system, few are so obviously a total scam as “surprise billing.” Here’s how that works: you go to a hospital (often its ER) that is covered by your insurer, and then, despite this, you get a giant bill. Surprise!

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