Everybody knows hospitals have to charge patients with money more in order to cover indigent care and emergency room abuse. But one man with an inflated hospital bill wants to sue. In response, “the state’s hospitals” want to make it legal to collect overdue bills without a trial. Robert Talford is objecting to being charged 24 times the going rate charged by pharmacists for a pill. As somebody who was once charged twice for a single $800 procedure, $400 three times for a single ambulance ride across the street when I could have walked, and $86 for a pill I did not want to take, you can guess which side I favor. (By the way, the next time I went to the hospital, my records indicated I was schizo and that I had had a C-section. I merely said that explained what I did with the baby.) Not to worry. Hospitals are gung-ho on informatics, hiring six-sigma black belts to push numbers and prove they are holding personnel accountable to high standards of quality.