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Hospital charges grow like 'compound interest' in opaque and irrational U.S. health care system

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Why can bills vary so widely among hospitals in the same city, let alone across the U.S.? Basically, it because the U.S. health care system doesn’t operate according to the regular standards of competition that govern other industries.