drew cartoon long time highlight healthcare cost crisis benefit readers read bengali explain doctor patient's charts comments concerned reports concerned bank statement reports good bear cost treatment healthcare cost management major election issues year back burner overshadowed economic meltdown recent economic stimulus package provision modernize health-care record keeping potentially reduce costs provide computer programming jobs dent monstrous problem health-care cost poised bubble burst devastating effects population businesses dealt entire system disintegrates hospitals reporting higher rates admissions patients insurance expected high unemployment numbers hospitals bail money current method cost reduction practiced insurance companies hmos working long time patients favor medical practitioners forced hmos insurance companies avoid treatment patient treated based amount insurance company based remember finger attachment case michael moore's sicko doctor's offices clear instructions nurses attendants patient specific test procedure conducting doctors spend minimum time patients reduced compensation patient forces increase patient count doctors rely reports mechanized algorithms spending time solve unique medical puzzle patient poses blame doctors simply time medical costing structure huge puzzle understand kind costing method hospitals astronomical bills sized fraction original amount insurance companies fail comprehend hospitals survive patients kind insurance agree huge bills highly reduced negotiated amount hospitals surviving employees paid negotiated amount receive serves inflated bill place notion high health-care cost illusion imaginary crisis explanation hospitals medical practitioners charged typical insurance company negotiated rates common public insurance companies businesses employ patients easily picked bill insurance companies hefty middle-man charges smart people looked problem found problem complex leave unsolved worry problems turn greed special interests lobbies disaster sub-prime crisis credit crunch wall-street meltdown taught lessons learn 