Look at the graph in the middle of the page), a portfolio consisting of 70% stocks, from March 2004 to June 2016 would have had an average annual return of 6%. According to them again, this would have outperformed a similarly-invested portfolio significantly (currently, in August 2016), by a cumulative margin of 103.7% against 60.7%.
An appendix removal can cost between $1.500 to $180,000 depending on where you take the surgery. Appendix removal is a common, straightforward operation, so you might expect charges to be similar no matter where the surgery takes place. Yet a California study found huge disparities in patients' bills â $1,500 to $180,000, with an average of $33,000.
They did not find a simple answer. The price of appendectomy ranged from as little as $1,529 to as much as $182,955 depending on where it was performed, according to results published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.