Originally Posted by suesheboy

The answer is simple about the prices, cost of insurance for Doctors is too high, too many people treated do not pay and/or have no insurance, and last but not least, it is a for profit business with a million hands getting cuts every which way.

I had medical care for an emergency on Germany in the 70s where they performed micro surgery and reattached my thumb along with followups for less that the price of the $100 aspirin.

Look at very highly developed 1st word country and I believe they all have socialized medicine. Maybe 1 or 2 other than the USA doesn't.