Emergency rooms often bill you a “cover charge” just for walking in the door, and it can be thousands of dollars. That’s in addition to the huge markup on everything that happens there: seven bucks for a band-aid. Twenty dollars for a couple of pills. Reporter Sarah Kliff has collected more than a thousand ER … Continue reading "Why are ER bills so crazy? With Sarah Kliff of Vox.com. (Season One, episode 7)"