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<blockquote data-quote="trplnkl" data-source="post: 932305" data-attributes="member: 13254">I have no doubt that is true, health care cost in the USA has risen exponentially over the decades, for many reasons. Some of those reasons are normal inflation effects. The nurse that took care of your daughter the first day probably was earning around $50k a year, when my kids were born they were earning less than $5k. Add in all the other inflation effected aspects of one day stay in a hospital adds up. I understand that inflation is not the only factors involved. &nbsp;A couple of years ago there was an entrepreneur putting together a group of investors to buy the small hospital where my wife works. When asked why he just didn&#039;t build a new hospital he gave several reasons but one of those reasons was that to build a 100 bed hospital the cost was a million plus per bed for construction alone. When the hospital that my wife works in was built, the cost was probably around 1/1000th of that cost.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="trplnkl, post: 932305, member: 13254"] I have no doubt that is true, health care cost in the USA has risen exponentially over the decades, for many reasons. Some of those reasons are normal inflation effects. The nurse that took care of your daughter the first day probably was earning around $50k a year, when my kids were born they were earning less than $5k. Add in all the other inflation effected aspects of one day stay in a hospital adds up. I understand that inflation is not the only factors involved. A couple of years ago there was an entrepreneur putting together a group of investors to buy the small hospital where my wife works. When asked why he just didn't build a new hospital he gave several reasons but one of those reasons was that to build a 100 bed hospital the cost was a million plus per bed for construction alone. When the hospital that my wife works in was built, the cost was probably around 1/1000th of that cost. [/QUOTE]

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