A million dollars can buy a mansion in one of Sacramento's nicest neighborhoods, near its best schools and parks.

Or it can buy an ever-dwindling number of weeks in the intensive care unit of a local hospital.

Bradley Showalter, an Arden gas station attendant and laid-off construction manager, can't afford either of those expenses, but the cancer eating his liver didn't get the memo, so he's steeling himself for a massive bill related to a future organ transplant.

Sarah Eide hasn't given the million-dollar hospital bill her family will receive much thought. She's too concerned over the health of her newborn child, Austin, who has spent the first 140 days of his life in a Sacramento hospital.

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