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Additional anecdata: Enjoyed an extended honeymoon through Thailand, Singapore, and Malaysia in 2016 and my wife was bitten by a stray dog in rural Thailand early on -> 7 medical interactions involving post-exposure prophylaxis and rabies shots in all 3 countries over that next month. (She's fine BTW!). Price transparency was really amazing in all these places and I think it might be a single reform that's broadly ameliorative of the max-friction / painful experience of US healthcare. In each country, we basically called around, asked "do you have this shot and how much is it" and got a more or less straight answer, despite having some language issues everywhere but Singapore. Whole experience cost ~ $1k, including some visits for 2nd opinions to high-end private clinic in Singapore and we just gave up bothering with it on our US insurance b/c of deductibles and hassle.