That’s an unthinking emotional statement typical of the very people I suspect you despise, democrats and communists and fascists. I think you shot from the hip and are NOT a liberal but that comment sure makes you sound like one.
The bill and the actual cost are of course different, and however high they are it is a direct result of what the fascists have already done by force over a period of YEARS to the free market in this land.
Moreover, the medical system would be happy to provide 1960s level care at a very cheap price but when people demand absolutely the best care with minimal risks, care that was not even possible a few years back, then why is it any surprise that it is expensive.
There has not been a free market in the medical profession for nearly all of my life. As long as the America medical association is allowed to control the number of medical schools and students. And thus the number of doctors and to further fix the market where a start up hospital would need to provide a certificate of need to be licensed, it is a fixed market.