This comparison between LASIK and actual healthcare is puerile. Healthcare providers make bank off the fact you can't afford to shop around. That you need that

This comparison between LASIK and actual healthcare is puerile. Healthcare providers make bank off the fact you can't afford to shop around. That you need that cancer operating on. That you need that chemo. That transplant. That stay in hospital. And that they —and all like them— can charge whatever the hell they like because your only alternative is a painful death. So no, pretending that you can fix this by listing pricing things because an entirely optional industry does it, doesn't just not fix this, it's noise that confuses people. Healthcare in the US can only be fixed by hard laws on price gouging (codified limits, etc) or astronomically altruistic competition that comes in at cost, and drives everybody else out of business. And I don't see either of those happening in the US because everybody involved in US healthcare is making obscene money from the status quo.