A Most Amazing Hospital Bill -1971..

[Stuart G]

I was going through some old stuff, and came across a hospital bill. I was in the hospital for 12 days in a private room for pneumonia. It was from the last week in September through the first week in October 1971. At first they couldn't figure out what it was, so tests and more tests etc, after 5 days in the hospital, they decided it was pneumonia, Ok,stuff happens and I lived through it.

Here is the amazing part. Non profit hospital, fairly modern facility. Micheal Reese in Chicago...total bill $1870 for almost everything. Some doctor's bills were separate but what is going on here? How much has inflation hit? Five or six times. Eight? Nine? So a $2000 car back then, maybe 19,000 today..what about a
Twelve day stay in the hospital? Private room? I can't even imagine. Maybe $ $60,000? $100,000 You tell me.
Thanks..