My healthcare story

I won't pretend to know how to fix health care in the US. I just know it is broken. I learned this 2 years ago when I injured my wrist in a biking accident. It was a pretty bad wrist injury requiring surgery and a few weeks of physical therapy. My surgery and recovery treatment were excellent examples of the good parts of US health care. We have the best specialists in the world. The bad part of my treatment came after I arrived at the hospital as a trauma patient. (Yes, the emergency/trauma parts of the system are horribly broken). I had to wait a few hours for surgery (I had eaten food), and someone ordered an MRI scan of my abdomen. This is just crazy since I was completely coherent and I had zero abdominal pain (they could have pushed on it all they wanted). The biggest crime here was that no one asked me about the scan. They just wheeled me down to the MRI machine and sent my insurance a HUGE bill for a completely unnecessary scan. I'm sure the person that ordered the scan would say that he/she was just being careful and trying to avoid a lawsuit, but I also suspect that the fact that I had good insurance had something to do with this. Shouldn't reasonable evidence of internal injury be required before ordering a horribly expensive test?