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Opinion: Rising health care costs will be breaking point for many Memphians

By , Special to The Daily Memphian Updated: December 07, 2025 10:44 AM CT | Published: December 07, 2025 4:00 AM CT
G. Scott Morris
Special to The Daily Memphian

G. Scott Morris

The Rev. Dr. G. Scott Morris, M.D., is founder of Church Health. He is a regular contributor to The Daily Memphian.

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Sometime next year, unless Congress changes course, health insurance is going to become a lot more expensive for hundreds of thousands of people in Tennessee.

Not because they got sick, not because they did anything wrong — simply because the rules in Washington changed.

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