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Across America, bills for Covid-19 treatment are coming due, and some patients are paying large out-of-pocket fees despite a federal safety net set up to help them avoid such financial surprises.

“There’s a lot of confusion, and a lot of patients are scrambling,” says Jack Hoadley, a researcher at Georgetown University’s Health Policy Institute who has studied billing. “But what they’ve tried to create is a sort of patchwork universal health-care system for this one disease.”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/who-pays-for-covid-19-medical-care-that-depends-on-how-or-if-you-are-insured-11600075801

Unlike in most developed countries, American health insurance system is not set up to deal with an epidemic.