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**Originally Published on Salon.com**  The $200K lesson I learned from getting shot – Salon.com. How a health insurance check sent 6 hours before being shot saved my life. And what it means for you (and America) BY BRIAN BEUTLER A few weeks ago, I wrote an essay for this website about the time two young black men shot me in Washington, D.C. The purpose of the article was to bring a new and personal perspective to an ongoing debate about racial profiling that had grown particularly pitched at the time. This article is a preface to that story, which I hope will serve … Continue reading this post →

Any way you slice it, America has the most expensive health care in the world.  Whether you look per user, per procedure, or per outcome, we pay way more than other countries, whether they have private or public healthcare systems (Obamacare depends on private insurance, competition between insurers, and a larger pool of insured to try to lower cost). This great piece by Ezra Klein shows how ludicrous America’s health-care prices are in 21 graphs: 21 graphs that show America’s health-care prices are ludicrous.