Surprise Emergency Room Bill

I realize this is the 7th page of this thread, but I don’t think I’ve mentioned this anecdotal experience, at least not in this particular thread- last year while working in Asia i had what i thought might be covid, i went to an ER in Thailand - fwiw a beautiful, modern facility that resembled a five star hotel- i was seen almost immediately , consulted with TWO physicians who ran some tests on me.. turned out to be a run-of-the-mill bacterial infection for which they prescribed three antibiotics, and it cleared up quick.. Total cost of visiting the ER, seeing two doctors, tests and antibiotics was a grand total of… $83 US dollars… not a typo… Now might be a good time to reassert what I’ve said in other threads which is that the American healthcare system is a total SCAM designed to keep you sick and make you broke .