Over the last year my wife and I have had lots of exposure to the US healthcare system. I can honestly say that it seems to be set up for one purpose...to extract the maximum amount of money it can from it's victims -- I mean "patients". Before 2024 I knew the American healthcare system was in a sad state but refused to believe it was a coordinated effort to bankrupt and harm people. Now I can't believe it's anything else but that. We've experienced all sorts of shady things in this past year from multiple duplicate tests/imagining ordered, specialists not bothering to read past medical history, unnecessary and/or incorrect medications prescribed, misdiagnoses, and duplicate/incorrect billing just to name a few. To add insult to injury we were "disenrolled" from our healthcare insurance due to a clerical error on the insurance provider's part in December...likely due to multiple millions in charges that had racked up. We paid that December premium before we received the letter and they're refusing to credit us what we paid. I could go on and on but do agree that you're much better off steering clear of our medical system unless absolutely necessary.