US healthcare: An American precedent

"Do you see the levels of cost for medical services you receive in the UK? Do you have any concept or idea?” Forrest Cook asks, getting slightly more exasperated at each shake of the head I make in response. “I see from month to month all sorts of medical costs in our organisation,” he says. “We have an individual who has just been prescribed a drug that costs $4,000 (£2,560) a time. I know what surgical procedures cost. I know what the cost of having a baby is.”