Pretty much any way you twist it, if in California I can get medical care for $8,000 (and that's after my insurance pays a portion) or I can drive across the border into Tijuana and get the exact same quality medical services and only pay $2,600 out of pocket and have my care done by doctors who were trained and licensed in America and who run hospitals that are equivalent standard to American hospitals, then something must be going on.

Even if an MRI machine costs 5 million USD, if it's going to work for 20 years you can amortize that cost out over that 20 years and definitely make more than 5 million dollars off of using it without charging every single head that passes through its magnetic rings $6,000 a pop.

If MRIs cost $1,000 in America do you know how many people would voluntarily go through an MRI just to get a quick check and make sure that there's nothing hiding deep inside of their bodies waiting to lurch out and steal away their life?