The real issue is not a big percentage of the population care about the prices. A good chunk of them are covered by employer based insurance or government medicine. Only the poor and unemployed care about it and unfortunately they don’t have the gravity to change things in the US. Only the wealthy and entities able to fund a 301c can influence things. Point is I do t know what asking around for prices is going to do. By definition if you are asking around you don’t matter to the politicians.