I wish more people were asking “why does the hospital charge such absurdly high fees?” instead of “why is Blue Cross trying to not pay those absurdly high fees?”
I have a very long and maybe ill-formed in-person rant about medical costs in the USA and the cost of higher education in the last 30 years and how these issues are are n-sides of the same n-sided coin but it takes about 8 beers to get through and isn't something I ever have the nerve to put down in an HN comment.