Beginning of the end, for Obamacare?

[*Nately120*]

Ida know, when my ol' man was still alive he had to have brain surgery that was billed at over $150k. I suppose if insurance didn't exist we would have paid out of pocket for that, but I'm not sure the price would have fallen quite enough to make it manageable. That was a single operation, not to mention the scores of visits, MRI's, specialists, post-operation treatments, chemo and so on and so forth. Add into that the "unnecessary" MRI that discovered his cranial bleeding wasn't caused by nasal polyps as diagnosed, but actually a stage C tumor in his brain.

I know the idea is that if one doctor says "I'll do it for $150k" and another says "I'll do it for $100k" it is competition that sets a market value, but legit medical intervention isn't like a cheeseburger where scores of entry-level workers can be given a pre-fabricated burger and assemble it for the masses.