Too much of the complaints about prices seems like the 70's redux to me. At that time inflation was sky high. What was the fix? Wage and price controls. Whip Inflation Now. Why? Because those fixes are politically popular. We'll go after gougers so honest people can get on with their lives.
Here's the thing. It doesn't work. The joke is that if you have the votes you can make Monday Sunday. But you can't. Pass all the laws you want and Monday is Monday and Sunday is Sunday. Pass all the laws you want saying the price of X should be $Y and it's not going to happen.
As a digression, there's a reasonable argument for Net Neutrality. I don't really agree with it but I can see it. The unreasonable argument for it is that Internet access costs too much and we're going to regulate the price down. That's like voting money for yourself. It doesn't work.
The fix for inflation in 70's was to raise the cost of money i.e. jack up interest rates. That makes everyone unhappy. But here's the thing; it works. Inflation went down. If you want to keeps costs down cut off the supply of money and figure out how to get more people to sell the goods/services you're interested in.
Why aren't there more Hospitals? Why aren't there more health care providers? Why aren't more companies producing medical goods? Why aren't there more insurance providers.
More competition and reduced subsidies doesn't really make anyone happy though.