[nine_k]

> Gov't could enact laws that prevent the end customer from being financially liable above a certain amount per treatment

This basically introduces gov't-supported insurance for treatments above that sum. If they would say that hospitals should just eat the cost, the hospitals will have to put a large part of this cut into increased cost of other, cheaper treatments.

Not that I know the fix for the cost disease in US medicine. But likely it lies somewhere allowing hospitals compete on price.