Exactly.

It's ridiculous that insurance can pay so little but average joe with no insurance out of pocket... make him pay 50 to 100% of their "amount" that they pull out of their rear-end.

Next up for me is to deal with the ambulance.
They are billing $1800 and refused to give me any pain medication because they told me "The doctor must know where it hurts"... now I have proof of 3 pushes of extremely strong pain medication to show how much pain I was in. They refused to help me though and made me SUFFER SEVERELY. Hell, I had to wait 1 hour for ambulance to get there, and then they also pulled over to let people pass on the ride down. So the 45 minute ride turned into an hour + to the hospital.