Amen. There was a great article about this in the The Atlantic a few years ago. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/09/how-american-health-care-

Amen. There was a great article about this in the The Atlantic a few years ago. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/09/how-american-health-care-killed-my-father/307617/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/09/how-ame... Anecdote: my mother-in-law was a smoker, felt dizzy one day, went to the ER and died five days later from a brain tumor. Got the Statement of Benefits (or similar): the cost was $140k; Medicare paid $40k...