I’m telling you my experiences.
It is not like what you are saying.
And there is corruption in the system (especially in Medicare) and it has been documented. Here is but one article on the subject
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/06/01/the-cost-conundrum
I did not infer that everyone in the medical system “has evil intent” .... but there is corruption.
I read the NY Times article. Most of the complaints in the comments were that patients were being treated by out of network physicians when they were in the hospital. That is not corruption, that is a problem with the system. However, there are so many different insurance policies that physicians cannot be on every policy out there. If a hospital forced physicians to accept junk policies, they will not keep their privileges there.
i also read that you stated that someone was peering in the door of your mother’s room, but you neglected to say why your mother was in rehab, and what her medical needs were. If she was in rehab, than I am sure she needed medical followup in rehab by a physiatrist and medical internists..
Third,no one wastes their time taking people to fake tests in the hospital. The nursing staff would revolt over that.
The article that you linked was interesting, but it was about a town that was above the norm in medical costs, it was an outlier, not the norm.