We spend enough money on health care in the United States that we should be able to cover every citizen. “It’s the waste that strains the system,” Sprowls added. Price transparency alone will not solve all the problems of predatory screening and unnecessary medical care. But it could save the health care system hundreds of billions of dollars currently being wasted on the game. In the words of senator and physician Tom Coburn, getting price transparency right is the first step in fixing health care because it ushers in quality transparency. We need to see prices, so patients and health plans
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