Our country spends twice as much on healthcare as any other nation on earth, writes FierceHealthFinance Editor Ron Shinkman. "My state of California is home to 3 million people whose health coverage has annual deductibles of $1,000 or more, putting many into a financial bind regarding their care options," he says. "That has a lot to do with a push toward what the industry has termed 'consumer-directed healthcare,' but is generally just dumping onto laypeople the burden of weighing granular clinical and compartmentalized cost data to make decisions that could have profound impacts on their lives." -- Read the full story from FierceHealthFinance