The floating cost of a vestigial organ.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: TILTING at windmills

A study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine and reported by the Associated Press reveals that in California, the cost of an appendectomy can range from $1,500 to $180,000, with the average coming in at $33,000. Lest you think these costs reflect a range of wildly different conditions, they don't. The appendectomies covered by this study all had roughly the same low...