It's pretty futile to point out the one factor that makes US health care so expensive. The whole system is highly corrupt and obfuscated and allows doctors, adm

It's pretty futile to point out the one factor that makes US health care so expensive. The whole system is highly corrupt and obfuscated and allows doctors, administrators, investors, construction companies, insurances, pharma companies and multiple middlemen to make outrageous money. I am not sure how to fix this but an important first step would be to mandate full transparency of all pricing. In addition the same service should cost the same for uninsured and insured patients. Same for in- and out-of-network billing. Right now a patient basically has no way of navigating this. Even if you are insured there is a much greater than zero probability that you will get hit with some random charges you could not have anticipated. You just have to hope for the best when you go to a hospital.