it is pretty awful. Our youngest was born a few months premature and the experience of dealing with the hospital during and after that was formative. 

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Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k

The hospital billing system is legit f'd up.  There is no standard or justice at all.  Talked to someone who works in that industry, they basically say "Yeah a bunch of people don't pay so we overcharge the ones that do... if you don't pay there's really nothing we can do about it anyway"

The US medical system is deeply f'd up and immoral.  