Costa Rica was the starting point for this thread. Haggling over medical costs is built into individual financing, but of course most people in the US don’t do

Costa Rica was the starting point for this thread. Haggling over medical costs is built into individual financing, but of course most people in the US don’t do individual financing, so my argument is more that arguing over idiosyncrasies of individual financing is usually a red herring when discussing the US health care system.