Cost of living

            This essay for my opinion was very interesting. I personally believe there wasn't any subculture used throughout the essay, instead it was like a scattered essay for my opinion. The author at the beginning of the essay mentions that the hospital he worked at was $54 million dollars in debt, which resulted in them having to use less supplies on patients. For example it mentioned " we were told to dispense fewer scrub tops to...". Hospitals still today face debts, because many patients who come in for an emergency usually don't pay the bill, they receive due to how large the bills are. The argument being mentioned in this essay is that everything in life has a cost, no matter what it is. Also for my viewpoint i believe that the author is arguing that people should not be billed, for life threatening issues. For example the author of the essay mentioned " i started billing differently, it could have been when we had a patient die, and i had to bill his family". The author is basically arguing that the bills for patients that come, are way to high and cant ever be affordable to an individual. After reading this essay it started to make me think about things like, why send a bill of a large amount to someones family who has died because doctors weren't able to save him?  Even today if you don't have medical insurance, just to go to the ER for a minor injury, the bill which comes in the mail is over a 1000$ easily.