It's pretty disingenuous when articles are written about the US healthcare system and they don't talk about methodology for how they determined the price. It's

It's pretty disingenuous when articles are written about the US healthcare system and they don't talk about methodology for how they determined the price. It's absurd that a methodology is needed, but it is. Is it the average price of the item on the chargemaster? Is it the average price billed to the insurance company? Or is is the average price billed to the patient? Is it the average price for those with insurance, those without, or both? If it's the average price billed between insured and uninsured, is it weighted? And if we are talking about uninsured, is it the average price billed or paid? US healthcare is a disaster, but these kinds of articles are just promo pieces for universal healthcare. Which I guess is the point, but I still find it extremely misleading. I suppose this is what passes for journalism these days though. The only major healthcare provider I know of that posts prices actually charged for most items, publically, is Kaiser. Even then you'd need to know the relative breakdown of plans to determine the average cost paid by the patient. That information may be available, I don't know.