Why are you putting the word "government" in there? The main perpetrator of this particular problem is the health "insurance" cartel with their closed "networks". This regime was directly created and nurtured by government-based regulatory capture, but that does not mean that removing government from the equation will cause the "insurers" to spontaneously dismantle their lucrative arrangements.

So directing the ire at "government" seems like it's directly detracting from focusing on the problem, which is a complete lack of sensible regulation of these "private" corporate extraction machines. At a minimum this "network" nonsense needs to be outright banned for the restraint of trade scheme that it is, and "providers" need to be taken to task for shaking down patients with fraudulent bills not based on any sort of contract (the latter being the main thing driving people into the arms of these "insurers" to begin with).