What you say is true, but does not negate or discount what I said in any way. Again, with the XY problem... If someone asks for X, but really needs Y and ther

What you say is true, but does not negate or discount what I said in any way. Again, with the XY problem... If someone asks for X, but really needs Y and there is a better way to get Y than to help them with X... Of course X is better than no X and no Y. But that doesn't change the fact that Y is much, much better than X. And in the case of health care, it is not even close. Price transparency may lead to each person paying a little less, or at least being less stressed, but it still won't fix the fact that America has the most expensive system, with the worst outcomes, in the developed world. So yeah, X is better than --X, and ++X even better than X, but that doesn't change the fact that Y is still the correct solution when you focus on the problem you really want to solve rather than making the incorrect solution slightly less incorrect. --- Also, IANAE, but I do not believe that in Canada, hospitals are permitted to have a 1000x variance in pricing. I think that for those things we socialize, the government sets the price.