>>508721207 (OP)healthcare is expensive in the US. Why is healthcare expensive you may ask? There are a few reasons. One is because as hospitals and pharmaceutical companies became more powerful, they began to eat up their competitors, reducing competition.
Low competition means they can increase the cost of services. There's also the fact that the US researches, develops, and produces medical technology and pharmaceuticals way more than any other country does, so they want to charge more to make back the money they spent on R&D. This is only part of the reason though.
One other factor that contributes to costs is liability. If you die, or your condition worsens, and the hospital didn't do everything in their power to help you, you can sue them. As a result, hospitals usually do every test they can in order to cover their asses, so if something goes wrong they can say "well we did everything".
The US also limits how many new doctors can get their licenses each year. This creates labor pool scarcity, driving up wages, the difference of which is paid for by the patient.
And then there's insurance. Insurance, hospitals, and patients have a love-hate relationship, in that the former love each other but hate the patient, whereas the patient hates both of them but can't go without them. Hospitals and insurance companies essentially collude with each other. Insurance companies will put specific hospitals or doctors on their "plan" and only allow patients to go to this hospitals. This benefits the hospitals, because it essentially forces customers to only use their services. But as a side effect, insurance companies use this as leverage to negotiate "discounts" AKA "$100 dollars? We're only gonna pay $25. Take it or leave it" so as a result, hospitals started raising rates more, so it became "$1,000? We're only gonna pay you $250"
That's the gist of it anyway, based on my understanding of the field of medicine as a business.