💰When Healthcare Gets More Expensive, Your Agency Becomes Priceless
As Medicare Part B costs rise again, the conversation usually stays stuck on dollars and deficits. But there’s a quieter cost we rarely name: lost agency. When healthcare becomes more expensive, efficiency tightens, visits shorten, and systems look for compliance instead of understanding. In pain care especially, the question isn’t just who pays—it’s who decides. And in an era of rising costs, personal agency may be the most undervalued currency we have left.