Most health insured patients can "shop around" in their network, which is a list of pre-negotiated priced providers that the insurance company has approved. Providers that are already vetted to be the lower cost for insurance, created through purchase power. And that's assuming it isn't an HMO, for which there is no shopping around.
There are not enough options for real market competition in healthcare.
It's wild to me how folks will continue to support the predatory healthcare industry here.
Through competitive pressures which drive down cost and encourage increases in quality.
There is very little competitive pressure in healthcare from the consumer due to the issues already mentioned above
In fact, I think you'll find most of healthcare has already been captured by private equity, resulting in worse outcomes for the both doctors and patients.
Protectionism limiting the number of doctors inflates wages, lack of price transparency removes ability to comparison shop, max out of pocket plans remove incentives to consider cost in care. All of these are easy to solve once they're identified and understood as problems.
When you look at disciplines where pricing is transparent and insurance isn't generally involved, like cosmetics/plastic surgery, the costs are quite cheap. Because it actually acts as a competitive market with incentive for consumers to comparison shop
Or maybe. . . maybe you're talking out your ass.
https://us-uk.bookimed.com/article/where-to-get-cheap-plasti...
If you're not going to bother to be right about that, I can't take you seriously saying that our situation is trivial to solve, but that also the solutions that work in other countries won't work here. Call be crazy.
There are obvious flaws in the healthcare system that are apparent from first principles. No need to blindly copy others.
Removing incentives for people to use the system efficiently leads to poor outcomes in different ways
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
Believe it or not, you were raised by American education to believe this is the best country in the world. Take some trips, you'll change your mind if you get out into the world.