yeah, insurance covered 100%, and my insurance had a deal with the hospital that whatever the bill, they would pay 66% in full settlement, so why wouldn't the hospital grossly inflate the price. A CT scan that here is <$1000 cost $3500. And the bureaucracy around health there is unbelievable. Atul Gawande has written a very good book on it, The Checklist Manifesto, in which he extensively compares aviation with health.
We could start a new thread on that subject. Aviation always comes up looking great compared with health. What we have, and health emphatically doesn't, is CRM.