List price for stitches at Stanford Health Care: $93K
As a Canadian, I am constantly flabbergasted when American friends tell me "Yeah, but a single-payer system would be way too expensive! Taxes would go up!".<p>It does not occur to them that in a single-payer system, the incentive on everyone is to find ways to lower the cost of healthcare, while in a privatized healthcare system the incentives are reversed. And examples like this twitter post show the result of those incentives.