The insurance company, not the doctor, absorbed the cost when patients ran up high medical bills.

But high bills or no, at least the power used to stay on.

Today, some legislators estimated the cost in higher bills at more than $100 million a year.

By 1990, the average college student was graduating $10,000 in the red, and many were facing far higher bills.

Then there is lost income, and sometimes high medical bills.

Under the plan, customers would not have seen higher electric bills immediately.

The most dropped calls of any provider I had tried, the highest bill, and the worst service.

It was a lie, and now we are having to foot a much higher bill.

And healthier employees, he'd come to learn, didn't run up such high medical bills.

This would be passed onto us in the form of higher electric bills.