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by three_seagrass 1295 days ago
>In what world can I not know the price of something before hand?

In a world where you're not the primary payer.

The complexity of healthcare prices is an artifact of decades of negotiations between providers and insurers, with the added headaches of linked diagnosis and procedural dimensions.

IME the pricing is so overtly complex that transparency into it isn't going to make much of a difference, it's just going to create more questions. If you want simplicity, switch to single payer.