Any healthcare with government involvement will be the most expensive option. They are totally incompetent!

In the 1960's when medicare began, the cost of a room in a hospital doubled overnight, partially to cover the increased paperwork costs. One of the local hospitals had rooms the determined to be too short by 4 inches for medicare reimbursement. They had to build another hospital!

My wife was in for 6 months, and the bill was half a million dollars. Then she died from a hospital acquired infection they couldn't control, and then they wouldn't allow me to treat the problem!

When they passed the affordable care act (ever notice they name these programs opposite of what they are?), all medical R&D in the USA stopped! There was no longer enough return to justify the expense, so no new equipment or procedures. We had six companies locally doing medical R&D, now one still remains because they converted to oil field equipment production. Totally incompetent, now the insurance calls the treatments, not the doctors!

My original primary care doctor quit the system entirely, and set up a subscription service outside the insurance companies. He made agreements with small specialty hospitals, where they get monthly payments to provide hospital care. They made deals with prescription medicine manufacturers outside the insurance monster for generic drugs. The cost for subscription is low (used to be under $400 before inflation); with legal costs waived in favor of arbitration. They try to Cure conditions instead of treating them! This was copied from a similar movement in the UK I was told, and is spreading here in the US.

This government took over a bar and a brothel in Nevada for taxes. And with a fully stocked bar, and a successful brothel that was making so much cash it was lost to the tax man; they couldn't keep the doors open! The root problem is government incompetence and interference, not the actual costs involved!!!

I went into the hospital for 2 days, had one cat scan, and the bill was over $31,000.00! They wouldn't do a simple test I required, so I checked out and went home; to treat myself. When I got home, there was approvals from my insurance for ten more days in the hospital for testing! It's now become part of the planned wealth reapportionment.

I'm on medicare, but the subscription medical is sounding better every day. Oddly enough, using herbals is under $100 a month, and is working best!