Depends on the procedure doesn&#x27;t it?  You might not price open-heart surgery that way since you want a great doctor, price be damned.<p>But what if it&#x27;s not so serious, and not an emergency?  People have rotator cuff issues that they take years to get fixed regularly.  Or a hip replacement?  That&#x27;s rarely an emergency but rather a solution to long term pain that&#x27;s not painkillers.<p>I think the other thing a lot of people would like to see is some kind of doctor and hospital report card so that you could compare on price AND quality.  Which would be great as it&#x27;d force the terrible surgeons who regularly do such a bad job (accidentally or on purpose) that their patients have complications, die, etc out of that line of work.<p>Obviously there would have to be some kind of risk classification system so that doctors and hospitals that take on high risk patients wouldn&#x27;t be punished for doing so, but I think that some kind of &quot;hot or not&quot; style risk assessment system could be developed whereby doctors spend 15 minutes a day reviewing risks anonymously for other doctors and each case gets rated 5 times and that determines the risk score to hopefully remove all bias.