Notice how the things you listed as cheap have lots of competition. The expensive things have government granted monopolies or psuedo-monopolies. And before a

Notice how the things you listed as cheap have lots of competition. The expensive things have government granted monopolies or psuedo-monopolies. And before anyone says healthcare providers don't have a monopoly, it that case, the insurers have a defacto monopoly due to the enormous regulatory moat that was built around them.