when asprin cost $7 a pill in the hospital and doctors routinely charge over $100 an office visit just to hear your complaint for 4 minutes and write you a perscription for an antibiotic that costs $50 a bottle of 10, something is wrong. This is a monopoly. Dont be fooled because insurance companies do not pay those charges, the uninsured do. Hospitals etc discount insurance companies so they pay 30% of what the uninsured pay.