One of the unspoken crimes of society is the etremely high cost of medical care. Ever gone to an ER room and made to for several hours while they charge $400 an hour or more for the room while they are all chatting and hamming it up in the center section? After my wife went for food posoning abd received a $7,000 + bill for a few hours we don’t use ERs anymore.
That's a great lesson, well maybe you should visit a clinic or called your doctor if it was "just a little food poisoning". Do you know what you're paying for in the ER? It isn't the people "yucking it up in the center section ".
what was your chief complaint when the triage nurse asked you what you were in the ER for? Vomiting, diarrhea, belly pain, fever? If you don't like the bill write a letter to the hospital and billing department and see if you can negotiate or decrease the bill. Go to the billing department and set up payments or dispute what you feel is wrong. Remember that you aren't billed by what they find but on what they looked for and the things that were used to look for the answer.