General Discussion

NOT. The CT scan is a real money maker for the medical industrial complex. They take millions of unnecessary CT's and MRI's to pay for the machines and make a good profit on top.

After a major high speed car wreck in Georgia (not my fault) that totaled my car, I had trouble breathing and my chest hurt after the air bag hit me (well saved my life, too). The cops actually asked if I wanted an ambulance and it was like "dude, I don't have a car" so yeah. It drove me less than a mile to a hospital and charged me $400.

They took an X-ray of my chest. Got a bill from a doctor in Connecticut about 6 months later. He had "read" my X-ray remotely. I think the bill was about $2,000.

Insurance paid for the X-ray but I had to pay ambulance.