Likewise the average cost of an angioplasty in the US is $28,182 while it is $14,366 in the next most expensive country, the United Kingdom of Great Britain. At the 25th percentile in the US the cost is $16,533 which is close to Great Britain. The upper end of the scale cost (95th percentile) is $61,649. This is four times the cost of Great Britain.
There is a similar pattern in the other 19 graphs that are presented in the article. The range in costs suggests that price gouging does not occur everywhere in the US system. Stephen Brill has a good expose in Time Magazine on why medical bills are so high.
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