A Hospital Charged $1,877 to Pierce a 5-Year-Old’s Ears. This Is Why Health Care Costs So Much.

So it's kinda like buying a car? Except you pay for the car, everyone who was on staff in the building at the time you bought the car, every piece of diagnostic equipment that touched the car (and every major system had to be checked before you could leave the dealership), you pitch in on the cost of every person who has made a late car payment in the last 10 years, and the mechanic is a quarter of a million in debt from his time at community college or at least that is the case if you pay out of pocket.

If you didn't then State Farm pays like a quarter of the cost for the car and then threatens to not pay for any more cars if the dealership doesn't agree to their terms.

That said, $1,877 bill for an ear piercing at a hospital seems kinda cheap. I would have assumed it would have been about $4 under the cost of her deductible. So $9,996?

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