What's your opinion on the price of hospitalization and medical treatment in the U.S.?

Virtually every serious analysis is clear that America's health care system is among the worst in the industrialized world on virtually every metric. The Commonwealth Fund, for example, finds that the U.S. is not #1 in a single important healthcare variable, and is dead last among the countries surveyed in access inequities due to cost, efficiency, equity, and healthy lives. Our per capita expenditures are insanely inefficient.