[maxerickson]

Yes, ill people are a relatively captive audience.

This is a reason to force price transparency, not hand wave it away. Especially when the institutions in question have been granted exclusive local licenses for some equipment.

It would give people a chance to price shop when care isn't urgent. Lots of people would drive a couple of hours to take advantage of the hundreds of dollars of differences in prices for things like CT scans. This would normalize prices for people seeking urgent care! Of course, that would undermine the entire way we fund care in the US, but whatever.

[URSpider94]

I am all for price transparency in medical care. What I'm arguing is that there should be standardization of the quality of service that is being offered, so that customers are not put in the position of deciding how much measurement error they can afford to pay for.