As medical costs soar, the insured face huge tab

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Wall Street Journal (subscription required), November 30, 2007

As spending on healthcare has climbed to almost $2 trillion a year, the number of Americans burdened with massive medical bills has soared as well. Million-dollar medical bills, while still unusual, are becoming more common as insurance policies once thought to provide catastrophic coverage prove inadequate when it comes to high-cost illnesses.

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