There are lots of reasons why health care in the US is so expensive as compared to European countries but the one common denominator that all of or European competitors have is that they provide health care for their citizens...

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm???

European countries spend an average of 8% of their GNP on health care and rank higher in every good category that the US in level of health and life expectancy...

The US is the only developed, industrialized nation that does *NOT* provide health care for all of it's citizens yet pays a whopping 17% of it's GNP for health care and doesn't even break the "Top Ten" in terms of being a healthy nation... Even our infant mortality rate (not factoring in abortion) is in the 20s... That sucks...

Dick is right... It's partly for the high salaries that specialists get... $350,000 a year is alot of dough... But it's not only that... Every rinky dink health center buys equipment to do tests that they frankly don't need and in many cases don't have the properly trained people to run the machines??? But they'll have their doctors order up these tests just to pay for the friggin' machine... And then there are stockholders who invest in hospitals who want dividends...

B~