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Her COVID-19 treatment cost more than $1 million. Who s going to pay for it?
Maria L. La Ganga
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Patricia Mason, 51, displays her medical bills at her home in Vacaville, Calif. Mason works more than full time across two jobs office administrative work, which she can do from home, and retail, which she can t. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times)
It was bad enough that Patricia Mason s husband rushed her to the emergency room on his birthday and didn t see her again for nearly a month.
That she was transferred in the middle of the night to a different hospital, one that could better care for her deteriorating condition, and that her husband had no idea where she was or even how to find her. ....

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