Huh?  If you have a question, please frame it with words so I can understand what you're trying to ask.

I think the deal is older than both Rajoy and Obama (as presidents, of course) so there's no problem.

I don't understand how any American(US) can support your healthcare system... its plain and simple f*cked up.

It's probably cheaper to fly to Cuba, get medical treatment and get back.

I thought Obama-care was suppose to solve this type of problem? Then again here in the Philippines you would probably be dead because most hospitals doesn't have anti venom. :/

While I don't think anything can justify America's healthcare system, there is definitely some information left out...

Wait, a second, did you say this was just a rattlesnake? I thought it might have been an exotic snake that they had to specially milk venom from, because they didn't have any antivenin on reserve or something.

But, uh, what?

Okay, I actually can explain the reasoning partially for the exorbitant prices on these treatments. If you have no health insurance, or poor coverage, you lack the bargaining power to effectively lower the costs of the treatment. Since healthcare coverage is essentially a life or death scenario, you, as the patient, have no power to refuse treatment. From a micro-economics standpoint, your demand is essentially infinite, so you're willing to settle for any cost. So, this effectively gives the health industry near unlimited power to jack up the prices to absurd levels. This is, apparently, most egregious in pharmaceuticals, where there's essentially a price czar that determines an exorbitant price for new drugs, and those drugs are only ever lowered by an intermediary such as an insurance agency or the government.

Basically, unless there is an external intermediary with a lot of bargaining power, health care costs will be exorbitant.

http://swampland.time.com/2013/05/14/the-daily-show-features-govt-probe-in-response-to-time-healthcare-expose/

Healthcare costs are largely arbitrary.

wow, he/she got drugs for $83k within just 6 days? damn son

approved by the "greatest president ever":

Im glad our health care system isnt like that.
With prices like that, you wouldnt want to visit a hospital at all, unless you where in a state where you would die if you didnt.

Its wrong, theres just no way to justify this.

You do not want to get bitten by a rattlesnake.  Excruciating pain aside, rattlesnake venom can cause extensive tissue damage, as the flesh is basically being disolved, nerve damage, heart failure, uncontrolled internal bleeding and hemorrhaging, and organ failure.  Hemotoxin is bad, bad stuff.  It kills a lot slower than neurotoxin, if at all, but it can mess you up badly even with antivenin.  Sometimes amputation is necessary.

Besides potentially requiring a dozen or more doses of expensive antivenin, surgical procedures and an extended hospital stay are often required, not to mention all the pain killers and antibiotics.

As far as the total cost being so high, I actually spoke with a doctor about this last week.  He said it's because so many people don't have insurance, and thus do not visit the doctor until too late.  What could have been provented with a simple procedure to remove a growth instead becomes an expensive battle against full-blown cancer.  That leaves astronomical medical bills which are usually never paid, which in turn drives up the total cost across the board.  That's basically health care in the United States.