It is crazy how expensive healthcare is here and how difficult it is for some people to even get insurance to help pay these outrageously high bills.

This doesn't even compare to your poor neighbor's bill, Gini, but my neighbor cut her finger and she went to the hospital. The cost for 2 stitches?? $2000!!!!
That seems a little high for something that takes like 1 minute to do.
I worked in a vet hospital (and I know it's nowhere near a human hospital, but the equipment is basically the same), and I know for a fact that the monocryl doesn't cost THAT much and even a little shot to numb her finger wouldn't have cost THAT much either.
*sigh*
Luckily, my neighbor fought it because she looked at the itemized sheet that she received and they were charging her for an exam by a physician that she didn't even see! That's just rediculous, IMO.