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To the Editor: While cleaning out my desk, I found the enclosed bill for my one-day stay at the Children's Hospital for a tonsillectomy when I was 11 years old (Figure 1). Several things struck me about it, especially in comparison with a hospital bill one might receive today. The most obvious is the low cost of service, although $17 was worth much more in 1943. The second is that the bill was paid (in cash) by my father at the time of discharge. There was no health insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, or health maintenance organization then. Most striking, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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