They aren’t lying so much as having different price tiers for everyone. The published price is the maximum price, it’s paid for only by auto insurance companies

They aren’t lying so much as having different price tiers for everyone. The published price is the maximum price, it’s paid for only by auto insurance companies typically. Everyone else has a negotiated lower price. Medicare prices for all would be a solution for example but doing so would both explode Medicare and bankrupt the hospitals