Reading the entire article, puts an interesting slant on hospital costs in particular, and medical costs in general.
The part I find interesting is that the costs we hear about, bear little relationship to the actual costs, but rather dollars that show up in the individual bills which cover not the costs of medicines, bed/room cost, pay for the doctors nurses and attendants... but rather that the billing amounts are high, to cover the monies that do not come from the individual cases, but are inflated to cover the losses the hospitals incur for write offs and regulatory requirements (a wholly separate subject).
This is but a small subsection of the difficulties in developing a healthcare system that will be comparable in cost and efficiency of most of the other developed nations. Since 2000, U.S. healthcare (medical) costs have risen 87% while consumer prices have risen 18%.
No answers, and not submitted as a political matter, but as a personal concern for my children (now in their 40's to late 50's) and the effect of any poor health on their future security and happiness.