This seems like a step in the right direction. It establishes the principle that the government has a say in healthcare pricing and patients must be held unharm

This seems like a step in the right direction. It establishes the principle that the government has a say in healthcare pricing and patients must be held unharmed. Obviously it doesn't cover all cases. But it does bring us closer to a single-payer system or at least a cost-regulated system, which I think is demonstrably a good thing based on its success in other parts of the world, and more importantly, the abject failure of the American system to both protect from financial ruin and provide the best care. I hope to see the day when nobody avoids care - preventative and acute - due to cost. It costs lives, and in other cases diminishes lives. I avoid care myself, despite having health insurance and being relatively high income, because you can mysteriously get a $1250 "room fee" added onto a $300 bill to stick a camera up your nose for 5 seconds when an ENT casually suggests it, which actually happened to my partner during a simple consult recently (you can buy a similar camera to hook up to a smartphone display for $10). This sort of "surprise bill" and outsized costs for trivial diagnostics with almost no cost to the providers needs to end. When I made less money and had no insurance, I didn't just avoid care, I went without it entirely for years. We should avoid that as a society, it comes with high costs - the cost of more significant care later, the loss of labor force, and the loss of quality of life and family.