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Between the hospital, medicines, staff, OR, nurses and ICU room, my insurance was billed close to $300K for my open heart in December. They settled at $85K total payment.

This seems like BS to me, from the medical side, that they have to bill so much to get paid so much less.

Just figure a number and pay it. Why the bullshit?

$85K and I was in for 4 nights. In Switzerland it would have been around $15K USD.

That's f'd up.

I’d assume the bullshit is the negotiations and free market at work?

where is the $15k from?

LoL.  This is typical socialist nonsense.  Partial socialism caused the problem so then blame the free market and call for more socialism as the solution. 

Then when that makes it worse, blame the free market again and call for even more socialism as to solution.  Rinse, repeat. 

How many people have to die from the effects of socialism before we figure out that central planning doesn't work very well? 

Can you put a number on that for me?  Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot just to name the three worst probably killed an order of magnitude more than the NAZIs and apparently that isn't enough.  What would be?