Well, of course they are. You have an insurance based health system. Every time you go to your doctor they order every possible test so they can claim it, plus

Well, of course they are. You have an insurance based health system. Every time you go to your doctor they order every possible test so they can claim it, plus their mark up, against your insurance. How did you think the USA manages to have simultaneously the most expensive and least efficacious health care in the first world?