Editor's Note: This article is the first in a five-part special report exploring the connection between your money and your health. Other stories in the series look at how your finances affect your physical and mental health, the challenges of long-term care, managing the costs of mental health treatment and what's new in Medicare this year.
Gas prices are soaring, the cost of beef is through the roof, and electricity bills have shot up everywhere. But in a year when the affordability of basic goods and services is causing great anxiety across the board, there seems to be no expense more worrisome to Americans than what they’re paying for healthcare.
