Originally Posted by blackmonsters (Post 19833950)

If that chart is based on total population versus total cost then,
considering the number of Americans that have no health coverage at all; the per capita rate for American is way higher than that chart.

We have millions upon millions who get little or no medical treatment and their zero cost is
averaged in and weighed against countries where everyone is treated.

Originally Posted by RandyRandy (Post 19833016)

100% true. They charge what they can get away with, especially when you have "insurance". I had MRIs and Xrays on my knee recently - done in The Bronx, paying cash. $40 for the xray, $50 for the MRI, but I had to shop around, or I would have paid much more.

Originally Posted by L-Pink (Post 19834036)

That chart is per capita not per insured. Which brings up my original point, as a nation we are already spending way more per person and as a percent of our economy than other countries. SOOOOO, wake up politicians, do something!

Originally Posted by Kolargol (Post 19834048)

These prices don't make any sense. It takes usually about 1 minute to write a report on knee xray for a junior radiologist. Senior consultant radiologist will write a knee MRI report in 15 minutes. Also MRI machine cost probably 10 times more than XRAY machine. There is just no way these two exams could cost the same.