It should mean too we should be able to negotiate prices in advance.
90% of Americans, even professed “conservatives,” will hate the idea, because they have become SO used to other people paying - but America needs a completely free-market, free-choice, free association, and unregulated alternative medical system, to run alongside, and as an eventual outlet from, our bloated, expensive government-directed one, which will some day collapse with Fed.gov’s bloated debt.
It should mean too we should be able to negotiate prices in advance.
How would that work for an emergency operation like an appendectomy? If your appendix is about to burst you don't have time to comparison shop doctors and read Yelp reviews. And what's to stop all the providers in your area, especially if you live in a rural area with fewer options, from jacking up the price anyway. If it's pay 20 grand for an operation or die, most people will go into debt and bankruptcy to get the 20 grand for the operation.
Really hope Trump repeals and replaces 0bamacare like he said he would do in his first term.