02-10-2014, 11:47 AM
I remember watching open heart surgery in a teaching hospital in Virginia just outside of DC. It was truly amazing, the pinnacle of our medical technique and technology all coming together for an easy 4 hour surgery, cutting veins out of the legs and all. There would have to be some crazy crazy accounting going on to make that surgery cost a million dollars. As the doctors explained it was routine and something they did all the time for fat lazy Americans. That was in 1998, I'm sure that surgery is even more routine and cheaper now, I bet they have a robot that does it, now that robot might cost a million or two,maybe more, I would believe that.