Reports in the state-run press say more than 90% of their income comes from charges (poorly regulated and often excessive) for providing services and medicine.
So Blankenship has tried to be a good consumer and figure out what care and medicine she really needs and what seems like excessive ordering by her doctors.
Instead, America needs to get its macro-medicine right, in particular by committing itself to medium-term fiscal and monetary stability without excessive short-term tightening.