[sailfast]

Because HHS / CMS negotiates all of these rates I think it might be hard for voters to draw a path between rates / expenditures and their care, for the same reasons they fail to draw a line between their current insurer's negotiated rates and cost of care. A single negotiator will likely only make pricing more opaque, rather than less, so there will not be a strong incentive to perform better at the HHS level without transparency. Further, if Medicare for all is biased toward removing private plan competition there will be no incentive whatever for Medicare to be more efficient. Rate issues can be easily blamed on the providers.

[moorhosj]

==for the same reasons they fail to draw a line between their current insurer's negotiated rates and cost of care.==

Insurance companies are not subject to FOIA requests like the government. People tie Medicare to the Government, why would this be different?

==A single negotiator will likely only make pricing more opaque==

Not sure it's possible to be more opaque than today. All of the other country's who do it this way have far more transparent pricing than the US, so I'm not sure I buy this reasoning.