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Does it matter who? They charge you because they can, America decided your survival (AKA health) is just another business an you can be charged as much as you are willing to pay for it; and those companies -with the help of cultural baggage- have convinced a significant chunk of the population that this shady business is part of the "freedoms" you have as American, because controlling the prices would be "communism" or "socialism", words we all were taught to associate with evilness and enemies.