And, frankly, it is embarrassing. Health care doesn’t have to be so different from any other business in America. Imagine you see an orange in the supermarket with no price on it. You take it to the register to get a price check. “How much for the orange?” “You have to buy it to find out,” the cashier says. You’re hungry, so you buy the orange. But you recoil when you see the cashier has charged your credit card $500. And there are no returns. If that happened at the grocery store, you would be outraged. But that’s how our current health care system operates. You can’t see the price until
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