We need to restore trust in health care services starting with more honest, transparent, and fair billing practices. It may take an act of Congress to end kickbacks and institute patient protections in the air ambulance business. But state lawmakers could take immediate action to protect consumers. If they can’t control the prices, at the very least they could publicize them. How about a law requiring air ambulances to tell patients how much their flight is going to cost? Or a database that would track and publicly report each company’s charges per flight? The database could also name the
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