Yeah, the medical inbdustry of the US is completely crooked. If they can help it, they won't provide the services they are contractually obligated to unless you get a decent lawyer to force them on the insurance side and on the otherside everybody charges more for services rendered than they are even remotely worth. Hospitals are very, very good business even with it being policy to treat people that can't actually pay (or perhaps because of it).
Americans have access to the best medical treatment in the world, yet for many citizens it's a carrot being dangled over their heads that they have no ability to reach. Even the ones that think they're alright because they already have "good" insurance can get screwed at a moments notice as I did (and as Desroko seems to have, though he at least eventually got his money).
You do not have the right to never be offended.
