We can easily look north to Canada or east to Japan for context on what services and procedures should cost. Japan has the health insurers and medical provider

We can easily look north to Canada or east to Japan for context on what services and procedures should cost. Japan has the health insurers and medical providers engage in structured fee negotiations and standardize prices in systems. There is no reason in the USA that injecting a Covid vaccine should cost $42.70, while injecting a Mpox vaccine should cost a different price of $67 when self paying at Kaiser. Meanwhile, insurers pay significantly less than this for the same service. https://wagner.nyu.edu/files/faculty/publications/hlthaff.2019.01804.pdf https://wagner.nyu.edu/files/faculty/publications/hlthaff.20...