Health Costs in the U.S. continue to soar and regardless of whether you have insurance or not, you can be presented with a hefty bill at the end of your hospital stay. One man received a bill for $650,000 for emergency surgery when his insurance company declined to pay what they felt was not an emergency!
CBS news currently has a series called appropriately Medical Price Roulette with suggestions of how to negotiate a lower amount on the astronomical prices that hospitals charge. Of course, you won't know the cost until after the fact and therefore can't look for lower prices elsewhere.
