Why Is U.S. Health Care So Expensive? Some of the Reasons Turn Out to Be Myths
There&#x27;s something horribly wrong with a system in which the doctor cannot readily tell you how much a procedure will cost.<p>It&#x27;s not like the doctor is building a new space rocket every time they do an appendectomy, or designing something completely new. It&#x27;s a procedure that is done thousands of times per day. But still, no one can tell you how much it will cost.<p>There&#x27;s layers and layers of waste in American healthcare. No one seems to really want to take point in fixing it. Frankly, it seems like a hopeless situation that will only get worse.