Hospital bills should not outlive our loved ones
In 2010, I lost my mother to cancer. She was a fighter and had survived well past her prognosis, but her hospital costs outlived her.
Let me go back to late 2004. That was the year the doctors suspected she had cancer. My mother, who was not a smoker, was officially diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer early on in 2005. When the biopsy confirmed that the small lesion in the …