CHCF December 17, 2021
Stories that caught our attention
Ensuring price transparency has long been a strategy to bring relief to the millions of Americans who face ever-higher costs for health care — and the long-term health effects of not being able to afford the care they need.
The idea behind transparency is that “shining a light on prices and supplying quality information should drive overpriced providers to reduce their prices or lose business,” Sue Felt-Lisk, Jeff Ballou, and Tim Lake of Mathematica explain in a blog published last year.
These rising costs have a significant impact on Californians’ health, according to the 2021 CHCF Health Policy Survey. Half of Californians delayed care because of cost in the last 12 months. And of those...
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