My $2,000 eye surgery in France would have been $20,000 here

Just went to an eye specialist for further follow-up to my eye issues, and he checked out the surgery I had in France for my detached retina, and told me two things:

1. Wow, they did a good job.
2. The surgery would have cost, easily, $20,000 in the states. It cost me a little over $2,000 in France.

It's amazing how bad our health care system really is, when you finally get sick enough to find out. I can't wait for Blue Cross to give me a hard time for the $2,000 French surgery when they'd have had to pay ten times that, were I to have had the surgery here. We'll cross that bridge when the French finally bill me for the surgery that took place at the end of July...