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Not possible, the way that the Hill-Burton Act works, patients do not have the ability to negotiate prices in advance due to how charges are made. We gave that ability up when we first got Medicare 1968 and recently EMTALA.
And not possible to withdraw either, otherwise, you wouldn't be trained nor have a residency as even military medicine's training is funded by CMS through the Executive Office interchange.
Why I say this is that there is no simple disentanglement of one part without getting the whole operation to collapse like a screwed up Jenga pile due to the interdependencies. The real reform in the medical market only can happen when we address who the biggest payer is, us as in the US Government. It's very pernicious to the extent that the USG penetrates even routine transactions, but without it, there's no modern medical establishment. Social Transformation of Medicine still applies.