You may have had 10 minutes face-time with your doctor, but he spent time before your exam reviewing your case, and time afterwards dictating the notes. So likely 30-40 minutes was spent on you and this does not include the nurses and front desk support staff, the janitor cleaning the toilets, all who need a living wage, rent and/or property tax for the facility, facilities maintenance and upkeep.

Not to mention the $$$ paid to greedy software engineers for all the mandatory e-health software systems which are all recurring-payment SaaS now raking in crazy amounts of cash.

Do you think your doctor is pocketing all that money? The average do-nothing schlub working in tech is making more than his doctor.

I didn't assert the doctor was pocketing it all out that there weren't other expenses. But if it costs $850, I'd like insurance to pay $850.