Source: The American Prospect
by Bryce Covert
“Christopher Crim’s troubles started when his husband, who has cystic fibrosis and is in end-of-life hospice care, needed a tooth pulled. Crim took him to a dentist near their home in Tennessee, and while he was in the bathroom, the dentist pulled all of his husband’s teeth, not one, and left a bone sticking out of his husband’s gums. The ensuing pain was so severe that his husband couldn’t sleep, even on morphine and oxycodone. So Crim rushed him to a new dentist, who estimated that surgery to fix the problem would cost $6,000. Crim and his husband didn’t have that kind of money.” [editor’s note: I got scammed by this a couple years ago, for dental work – SAT] (05/28/25)
https://prospect.org/health/2025-05-28-predatory-lenders-operating-room-medical-credit-cards/