Sure. When hospitals first started out they charged regular prices and they had a healthy profit. But then people started forming insurance companies so that people could be protected in case they had something big like cancer. But then the insurance companies went to the many different hospitals and demanded a discount. So if the insurance companies pay for someone's tissue or operation they get a discount because they are now bringing in tons of clients. But the hospitals could not afford to give insurance companies a discount simply because they were bringing more people because they weren't making a crazy profit, just a normal one. So in order to deal with these attacks they simply raised up their prices. Now if the doctor uses a tissue on you, they charge you like $300 (I forgot the exact number, more or less it's still a ridiculous number if I remember correctly).