> If people were regularly getting fucked like that I'm not sure what point you're trying to make, but it sounds like you're making the claim that people in th

> If people were regularly getting fucked like that I'm not sure what point you're trying to make, but it sounds like you're making the claim that people in the US don't regularly end up with massive surprise medical bills? This entire conversation is about action the government is taking because it happens so often. > "has hundreds of thousands of dollars, or even millions, of bills turn into nothing" That's not really how that works. It's not like your insurance company is actually paying "millions of dollars", they're paying some level of reasonable negotiated rate. If they actually had to pay "millions of dollars", that's when they claim something is not covered and you get stuck with a bill anyways. Edit: First quote was just wrong from a bad copy/paste