100% agreed. The time/money/stress burden this places on people is incredible. IMO health care providers should be forced to charge one price, regardless of wh

100% agreed. The time/money/stress burden this places on people is incredible. IMO health care providers should be forced to charge one price, regardless of who's paying. That way it wouldn't take a lawyer and a quant to figure out with even 99% certainty what something will actually cost, and the insurance companies would each fight to lower prices for everyone. It's totally nuts that there is no-one in, say, a hospital, who can tell you what you're going to pay for a given procedure. They can (sometimes) give you numbers, but they'll practically never even be what ends up on the bill, let alone what you'll personally pay.