Health Care Needs Further Scrutiny

If the pricing and billing practices of the American health-care corporations -- insurance, pharmaceutical, medical and hospital -- were used by any industry other than possibly energy, management would have long ago begun serving lengthy prison terms.

“Tenet Under Closer Exam” (Nov. 11) reminded me about an experience one of my mother’s friends had a few years ago.

Having broken her shoulder in a fall, she spent quite a bit of time in the hospital.

Her son insisted on seeing the bill. Imagine his surprise (and hers) when he discovered that, along with the usual $21 aspirin tablets and $15 sheets of Kleenex, his elderly mother had been billed for a circumcision.

The American health-care industry has its greedy hands deep in all our pockets because we pay through higher premiums.

Georgiana Coughlan

Gardena