[maxxxxx]

Why is it impossible to show prices? Medicare and private insurances have defined price lists. They should just be forced to make them public.

A system where one group gets charged too little (is that really true in the case of Medicare? I doubt it) which then forces another group to be ripped off in a hidden way doesn't make sense and hurts the country.

[sseveran]

It is absolutely true in the case of both medicare and medicaid for certain things (not everything). My dad ran business and R&D for pathology ta state level hospital at a major university and he often had to figure out how to continue offering services to medicare patients by making up the money somewhere else when medicare wouldn't even cover the cost of materials.