This $55,000 Bill Is The Perfect Example Of Our Broken Hospital System

[Faryn Balyncd]

20. If airline tickets were like medicine:

This is what would happen:

1. You would be given a form in which you were instructed it was a "standard consent form", which was physically designed to be as unreadable as possible, whose major purpose is to legally bind you to be financially obligated for unspecified services at unspecified prices.

2. You would then have various people, many never seen by you, decide what to purchase on your behalf. Some of these purchases would be from the airline you thought you were doing business with, and some would be from totally different business entities you had never heard of.

3. At any point, if you tried to inquire about the nature of the services you were being sold, you might be told that this was a decision that only travel professionals were qualified to make, and treated as if you were being a "difficult traveler" who was imposing on the time of the busy travel professional.

4. If, at any point, you were so presumptuous as to inquire as to the price, or the number, of the services you were being sold, you would be unable to get this information. In many cases everyone you had contact with would be unable to provide the pricing information even if they wanted to, often because they themselves have no way to access that information themselves.

5. After you had then been sent on the airline to multiple destinations (which you had limited or perhaps no input in making the decisions), you would receive a bill for which you, or your estate, would be held responsible. This bill would be as unintelligible as possible, but in many cases would have prices 250 - 400%, and in some cases 600% higher than (still highly profitable) prices
charged to "travel insurance companies".

6. If you had the audacity to complain, you would be falsely told that all pricing and policies was caused by "the government".