There is no set price for receiving treatment because there are dozens of different systems of benefits and methods of calculating that cost from those benefits

There is no set price for receiving treatment because there are dozens of different systems of benefits and methods of calculating that cost from those benefits, determining eligibility, etc. The private insurer system is demonstrably the cause of the difficulty in determining prices, and the administrative overhead they incur is an enormous part of the cost of healthcare in the US [1]. People don't become debtors simply because they don't want to pay their bills, they become debtors because they can't afford to pay their bills. The number one cause of bankruptcies in the US is medical debt, and no amount of "price transparency" is going to fix that. [1]: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmsa022033 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmsa022033