TikTok takes on surprise medical bills

There are more authoritative resources out there — Burns' admonition to "Don't take an ambulance unless you are legit dying!" is understandable, but maybe not a maxim to live by.

• But the simple fact that people are venting on TikTok about their billing surprises shows just how omnipresent frustration with the health care system is.
• "I thought, 'What if people out there don’t know that they have the right to tell those people to screw off?'" Burns told NYT.

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