I got some mail today which said, "We can look in your arteries and tell if you have plaque. They don't give a damn whether you have plaque of not. I would bet that if you are stupid enough to let these bastards examine you, then you'll be wheeled into the OR in nothing flat.
I would suggest that the mangers of that hospital be tried and hanged, after conviction for crimes against humanity. Impossible for that to be a reasonable charge.
Just had a sister-in-law laid up in ICU in Jakarta. (She passed, but that is beside the point ...) One blood product treatment cost US$10k - it was imported from China and we bought it wholesale from the Jakarta distributor whom we know. This same treatment costs US$100k in the US. Her daily ICU bill averaged about US$200 including tracheotomy cleaning, heart and breathing monitors, her daily meds and nutritionals (she was fed directly into her stomach due to paralysis.) She was in ICU about 3 months running. I estimate her long-run ICU cost was US$6-8k per month, including the hire of a full-time private nurse, all meds etc, but excluding one-off surgeries. Of course hospital and doc probably didnt carry any insurance, and we just assumed there is little-to-no recourse ... As to quality of care, there were a few sacrifices, but perhaps not as many as one would assume ... FWIW.