I'm a little confused here. If you find the actual tweet, with photos of the full bills, insurance is paying all but $500 on each of the two bills. So the parents only pay $1000 out of pocket. So these $26k and $27k values aren't real, it's all "insurance adjustments" and whatnot. So is the complaint that hospital staff are getting paid? Obviously the actual health providers deserve to get paid (ideally by a single payer), but I have no idea if these are reasonable costs, or how much insurance actually pays them, or whether the real amount (the amount the insurance co actually gives the hospital) is reasonable or not.

For-profit health insurance is one of the greatest travesties capitalism has bestowed on us. But the screenshot of the tweet is misleading, and I'm honestly not sure what Dave Mosher is so upset about, since his out of pocket cost is only $1k. Granted I think we need single payer and that Mosher shouldn't have to pay anything out of pocket, but $1k is better than $53k.

I only bring this up because other comments here seem to assume that the parents have a mountain of debt to climb, but they don't.