[Hoot Gibson]

Funny stuff.... you know, man, it's interesting: I find you just as big a trip as you find me. We're so far apart we may well meet where the wrap around effect occurs. "To ask me if I saw a CNN report is crazy".... It was a rhetorical question, bro. The patient didn't get lucky. He paid the going rate in Wales after a price check and beat the US price by $30,000. Quit paddling in a river in Africa, man.

A quick Google search reveals that the $30,000 figure that you cited as the cost of the surgery in the US is more than three times the average cost for out-patient thyroid surgery in the US. As for the $3,000 cost in Wales, I am going to assume that price is similarly exaggerated in the opposite direction. Which CNN star reported this story - that genius Rick Sanchez? There are very good reasons why I rarely watch CNN and why most other Americans have also abandoned the network.