I've been saying this for years. Try asking your dentist or doctor how much something will cost. Most of the time they just tell you well we bill your insurance and then your insurance figures out your cost. Once in a while I can get a cost within 10 minutes, but that makes it impossible to shop around. It should take them a few moments 90% of the time to give me a quote with only exotic procedures being the exception.

Is it so hard to provide a real-time cost? It might not be easy now, but we have the damn technology. System is broken. Mandate this, give them a deadline to implement. They have deep pockets, the engineers and tech exists, delivering it within 3 years should be mandated. Let me shop around cuz capitalism...

You want to cut healthcare costs? This is something 100% of congress can back, even with a hefty lobby against it. Cruz and Sanders could co-sponsor this for Christ-sake, thats how non-partisan this is.