By Evan Falchuk

Why paying for health care is so difficult:

a gigantic, complex raft of billing codes which are seemingly designed to haunt you in your sleep. With thousands of codes, and with frequent revisions to the fee schedule, it’s difficult to imagine a bureaucratic system. . . more challenging to decipher.

American health care?  No, Canadian.

Some problems are inherent to health care, regardless of who pays for it.