I feel like if your response when I ask you the price is, "I don't know", then my response is, "well then I don't know if I can/will pay that". A friend of mine with limited means says his medical plan is just to go the ER and give them a fake name - he came up with it after suffering a head injury (pool cue to the head) and being unable to remember the details of his treatment. I don't think it's a good system, but it seems to be the one we've got.