He was the perfect person to shop for health care. And he failed miserably.
After three months of using hot compresses to shrink the stye on my daughter’s eyelid, it wasn’t getting any smaller. My daughter is prone to this sort of growth, called a chalazion. This one would have to be removed surgically, like the one she had removed from the same eyelid two years earlier.
But there was one …
He was the perfect person to shop for health care. And he failed miserably.



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