Fox Business October 11, 2019
Democratic presidential primary candidates are spending a lot of time talking about health care but no time talking about the primary driver of runaway costs – the lack of price transparency.
Price transparency is the right to know what things cost before you buy. Consumers demand price transparency in every other area of the economy.
Imagine, for instance, if the prices for products on Amazon suddenly disappeared. Consumers would be apoplectic. But in health care opacity is the norm. The Trump administration wants to change that.
In June, President Trump issued an executive order requiring hospitals to post actual prices. The president said, “To make fully informed decisions about their health care, patients must know the price and quality of...
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