You're very fixated on knowing the cost beforehand. Americans know intimately that doctors visits are going to hit them in the pocketbook. Far more than someon

You're very fixated on knowing the cost beforehand. Americans know intimately that doctors visits are going to hit them in the pocketbook. Far more than someone from a single-payer system does, where there's a good chance they will never receive a bill with a dollar amount on it. Yet, we're the big outlier on medical costs. Knowing "this is gonna cost me, ooof" does not seem to have any impact on the costliness of the system.