Consumer Confidential: Soaring healthcare costs: Oh, my aching feet!
by David Lazarus, Los Angeles Times
Jan 29, 2019
4 minutes
It was one of those unexpected moments that provide a telling glimpse of why healthcare costs are so ridiculously high.
For weeks, my foot had been killing me - the ball of the foot and the tendons up top. I'd taken to hobbling around my home and the office. So I scheduled a visit to a podiatrist. I'll call him Dr. Feet.
Dr. Feet had no difficulty diagnosing my problem as high arches, which were throwing my tendons out of whack and creating all that pain when I walked.
He said a decent pair of insoles probably would fix
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