" ...It is poor journalism to then repeat what biased advocates claim by adding in a lot of unverifiable sob stories about the elderly going bankrupt allegedly .."

Exactly - this series reminds me of the occasional G&M whinges about the FN issues - mostly one sided and devoid of any unbiased investigation of context. Many remote reserves being entirely dysfunctional - blamed on whtaever outside influence. There are two sides to every story and in this particular case doctor's experiences in our health care should have been included !