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History of immigrants for pregnant, which accounts for its family budget cost ultrasonic food and graduate students who cannot afford to test blood to its infection of the Gulf are winners on a new descriptive, aimed at increasing the awareness of doctors and medical students about the costs of care.

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Let me tell stories about the costs of health protection.

istockphoto.com let me tell stories about the costs of health protection.

These stories "are advanced for the same volume of unrecognized poverty alone" said surgeon of Boston and the New Yorker writer Dr. Atul Gawande, one of the judges of the contest sponsored by a group of support costs. Other judges included were gov.ar. Massachusetts and democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis and Michael Leavitt, former President of Utah and the Secretary of Health and Human Services on President George Bush.

The competition received more than 100 entries from throughout the country, and has chosen the winners in each of the two categories of patients and clinicians. Both the winning stories, interestingly, are about people who have health insurance but still readiness to pay their medical BILLS.

 

Clinician's winner Awards Gold was Edmunds Friction-Antonio, nurse Boston-its, which described the fight against its descriptive of a patient to repay $ 1,400 in BOM ultrasonic not covered by the plan of its health.

Patients the winner was Brad Wright, Graduate students from Durham, N.C. His essay describes in detail the living its finally failed efforts to get his infection treated ourselves in its Gulf plan health network.

The other finalists, wrote Neel Shah, a doctor and a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, who founded the Organization of and participation in the contest included stories about BILL OF $ 11,000 indigestion, Bill of $ 10,000 for surgery pre-approved and statement of gold for birth control.

Starting from January, the Group publishes a new story on their blog each week due to a lack of price transparency in the health care system.