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