Consumer Confidential: The insanity of covering a $50,000 knee operation but not a relatively cheap injection
Why give someone with bum knees a once-a-year injection costing as little as a few hundred bucks when you can instead make them undergo complicated knee-replacement surgery costing tens of thousands of dollars?
That, in a nutshell, is one reason the U.S. health care system is the most expensive in the world.
It's also where Hollywood resident Jere Rosenberg finds himself.
The 69-year-old has painful osteoarthritis in his knees, often making it difficult to get around. It's the most common form of arthritis, affecting about 27 million Americans. Cartilage in the joint breaks down as you get older and
