Your average large hospital is a titantic infrastructure, think of it like the Space Shuttle--plant, administration, army of techincal personnel (not really that many doctors, but many other well-compensated techincians), maintenance, machines--expensive, delicate, hard to maintain machines, fuel, janitorial...
You are paying to make use of a highly expensive infrastructure--you rented the Space Shuttle. This is what is driving medical costs.
well,I have a step grandson who will be 2 in April and no way,til I knew if what I had was contageious,was I gonna risk anything....but good points.........