Nah, you just have to go elsewhere because the US healthcare system apparently includes a bunch of unnecessary or overpriced expenses. Or you just say you dont

Nah, you just have to go elsewhere because the US healthcare system apparently includes a bunch of unnecessary or overpriced expenses. Or you just say you dont have insurance so you get charged at 10-50% the "chargemaster" price. Think about how cuba is able to have similar life expectancy, etc at a fraction of the cost with chronic shortages and subpar sanitation. Most likely there are many medical procedures doing at best nothing for the patient except draining their wallets. Worse, it could be that treatment 1 for problem A causes problem B which leads to treatment 2, etc, etc for some moderate benefit at great cost over just dealing with problem A. Worst, it could be the medical treatments are having a net negative effect on people's health. Eg, those studies that estimate hospital errors (not even just death from dangerous treatments applied as standard) are the third leading cause of death in the US.