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>It may seem cheap to you cos you're accustomed to the concept, and medicine is expensive over there. Where does the $0.75 m go? When we look at the hospital bill, from my limited exposure to it, everything is down there at inflated prices

I remember seeing a 60 Minutes (or one similar) segment where a person investigated the details of their hospitalization bill (U.S.).
It was fan-fold paper and was at least 25 pages of single-line items.
The one I remember... One item was repeated many many times and was $5.00 for each occurrence. It had some fancy name that I don't remember. But it was something akin to "mucous removal device". Turned out that any time a nurse wiped the patient's nose/mouth with a kleenex a charge was added to the bill.