Opinion: ‘How painful is the cost of your health care?’ The case for a new vital sign
“On a scale of 0 to 10, how painful is the cost of your health care?”
That’s a question all physicians should ask their patients, and one that has become increasingly more relevant in everyday patient care due to the relentlessly rising costs of health care and prescription drugs. These are now compounded by the economic devastation of the Covid-19 pandemic.
