Your position is kind of ridiculous. That applies to every single business ever and yet magically hospitals can't get by without itemizing _everything_? Of cour

Your position is kind of ridiculous. That applies to every single business ever and yet magically hospitals can't get by without itemizing _everything_? Of course not. Besides nowhere but in the US is this normal, which alone demonstrates your claim that somewhat different procedures _require_ this to be totally false. The only reason that hospitals in the US get away with it is because of the ludicrous agreements that you sign when arriving (you agree to pay whatever magical amounts we decide to bill you...). If those contracts were unenforceable (as they should be), hospitals wouldn't come up with this idiocy and would charge things simpler and would tell you ahead of time what your cost will be.