Trump Signs Executive Order Compelling Disclosure of Prices in Health Care
The entire exercise is pointless because the health care market isn&#x27;t actually a free and open market.  There&#x27;s lots of regulation on health services (obviously, as there should be, because safety is important), but more importantly, when a person is sick or injured, they usually are not able to comparison shop.  Emergencies make it impossible, but even a relatively common illness makes comparison shopping unrealistic.  What we have is not a market and efforts to help comparison shopping really do almost nothing to fix things.<p>Has anyone else had a doctor or nurse filed the wrong paperwork for a blood test, and then you get stuck footing the bill for an obscenely expensive test you didn&#x27;t need or want?  It&#x27;s happened to me several times.  And you have to pay whatever price the test facility sets, period.<p>The system is broken and until the insurance industry&#x27;s grip  is broken, we are not going to get relief.