[cascom]

To your last point I wonder what the effect of not allowing a provider to charge a different price for the same service/product would be.

[hallway_monitor]

This is a really interesting idea. Seems like it would kind of level the playing field and might help guide us toward what I think is the ideal situation - no one needs health insurance other than for a catastrophic event because prices are known and reasonable and you just pay them, like literally every other service we need and consume.

[lotsofpulp]

That is supposedly the goal of high deductible health plans and HSAs.