It's not a monopoly, it's a cartel. There are a dozen hospital networks near me, but they all have opaque pricing and billing, so they all charge like this. Yo

It's not a monopoly, it's a cartel. There are a dozen hospital networks near me, but they all have opaque pricing and billing, so they all charge like this. You can try to regulate these facility fees, or force them to be made public, but as it stands there's no reason for them to go anywhere but up, indefinitely.