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Dan Sunderland, DO

We have 2 major problems here:
- hammering for money (likely people who have trouble paying anyway)
-Hospitals feeling that they need to do this in the first place due to financial pressures

"Hospitals use lawsuits to collect on unpaid medical bills in North Carolina : Shots - Health News"

npr.org/sections/health-shots/

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Obvious solution: healthcare. Hospitals need a single, streamlined, heavily-regulated, dependable means of being paid. This system would also have income-based premiums which would solve the unaffordability crisis for patients. Single payer also allows for a single point of price negotiation that can help control overall costs.
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