AdvertisementVeteran's Appendectomy Launches Excruciating, Months-Long Battle Over BillAugust 25, 2020Elizabeth LawrencefacebookEmail"Before the appendectomy, I was looking for property and homes to purchase, and that is pretty much completely off the table right now," says Shannon Harness, a veteran who was uninsured when he had two appendicitis-related surgeries in 2019. The bills amounted to $80,232. (Rachel Woolf for KHN)