Brooklyn Park, United States, Jan 29 (AFP/APP): The Maccoux family receive visitors to their beautiful home in a Minneapolis suburb with an infectious warmth that belies the fact their youngest daughter Olivia has had more than 140 brain surgeries, all by the age of 24. Mom Cathy smiles tenderly as she scrolls through photos of Olivia on hospital beds at various ages, from a baby to toddler to a teen. “That’s just a hole in her skull from one of the shunts, isn’t that crazy?” she says. And dad, Dan, is close to laughing as he reads from bills sprawled out on a table cataloguing medical costs going back to 1996 — including parking tickets and hospital meals. “Very surprisingly, very few people have a love of records,” says the 57-year-old independent consultant in the semiconductor industry. The family’s case is a telling illustration of the flaws of the US health care system, which Democratic candidates for the White House have promised to overhaul or scrap ahead of their first primary contests in February. Despite spending the most on health care in the world, 27.5 million Americans are without any health insurance. And for the “lucky” insured, sky high costs … Continue reading $300,000 debt nightmare for a family in America