Just once I would like to see something beside 'market forces' or 'compassion' used to describe the profit based health provider networks.   Oh my what a ruckus when people are asked to question the treatment advice of a doctors office or ask questions about particulars of cost?  And how many times I have heard, 'Why do you care?  You have insurance'.     Because I share the cost with my entire pool, that's why.

I simply don't believe that market forces work for health care to control cost.    The effort by the industry is to persuade the public to 'use their products or die,' or at least be shamed by your erectile disfunction caused by being fat and old.  The types of medical care that we see promoted by Madison Avenue are as much about profit margin and equity value as it is required health care.  Why do medical providers charge so much? Because they can.   *This is systemic, not the doctors themselves - who are corporate employee's in most ways.