$26.

[Midnight Writer]

5. I just got a good old American colonoscopy for $15,000. Actual procedure took about 45 minutes.

Took over a year from when I requested it (following weeks of rectal bleeding and two trips to the ER because of severe abdominal pain) to actually getting it done.

Thank God there was no cancer, though there were some pre-cancerous polyps that the doctor said would have probably turned to cancer if "we had not caught them in time".

Ain't capitalism grand?

P.S. $!5,000 is what the hospital charged me on their statement. Medicare paid most of the bill.