re: How do we lower the cost of health-care so that the quality doesn't fall ?

whatever happened to the whole thing about posting prices for things at the hospital? I mean it seems to me NO ONE ever knows how much something is going to cost. I had finger surgery and I asked 30 times before the surgery how much it was going to cost. they told me x. I said fine. here's x. and then a week after it's done, here's a bill for y. yeah. x is how much it costs if you don't include anathesia, and a hour long recovery window, and blah and blah. and I'm like. wtf. when someone asks how much something is going to cost you have to be able to tell them. that's a huge factor in a lot of regular people's decisions.

that surgery plus an ablation I've had in the past 5 years ended up costing about 6k more than I was told.