It’s funny that USA is supposed to be an advanced economy but all of those billing issues happen here. Nearly every procedure is preceded with a pointless “con

It’s funny that USA is supposed to be an advanced economy but all of those billing issues happen here. Nearly every procedure is preceded with a pointless “consultation” that is ~$1500 for 15 minutes convo with a doctor. It’s worse than an email basically “how are you feeling , what can i help you with – oh that’s normal we can’t do anything about that”. And all the same absurdity billing for gloves, baby aspirin . We were laughing at some of the bills. Blood draw $500 . 10 minutes of work and a few dollars in disposables. Billed at $3k / hour.