> And at the same time there shouldn't be any place that would charge you without warning about cost This isn't unique to healthcare, though it's worse in heal

> And at the same time there shouldn't be any place that would charge you without warning about cost This isn't unique to healthcare, though it's worse in healthcare than other places. Say I hire a plumber to put in a toilet, and when they open up the wall to run their pipes they find major problems that need dealing with. It wouldn't be code compliant to seal things back up without fixing them. Now it's going to cost me $10k instead of $1k. (Analogy to complications during surgery, though it's less time sensitive and I would have the option of evaluating multiple people to fix the bigger problem.)