ChanieE
You hit the nail on the head!
It gets more complicated when you consider that healthcare doesn’t really reflect basic economic laws. ITs not liek a person having a heart attack can shop around
It gets worse when if a person DID want to shop around it is very hard to pin down a hospital to get a price of a standard non-emergent procedure like child birth (sure there are occasional complications but usually not, youd think hospitals can give you a price they wont. See the video made by vox a few years back “Giving birth costs a lot. Hospitals won’t tell you how much.”