And how about when insured and it's still insane? I had a regular checkup on a medical device. The doctor 15 minute long "how's it going, looks fine, see you in a year" was billed at $360 and using the machine to check that the device was fine was $250. With other add one the total "cost" was $690. Outrageous.

Insurance (supposedly good) paid about $300 of it. Holy crap. A single visit to have a doc say you're good at a rate of $1450/hr ended up being more than I can save in a month. Complete insanity. I've gotta get out of this country.