Medicare will require hospitals to post prices online
One of the biggest problems with US health care is that it&#x27;s usually impossible to find out what treatments will cost before having them.<p>This makes &quot;shopping around&quot; and being an informed consumer near impossible.<p>If this actually happens in a meaningful way, hospitals will have to be competitive on price, and I can easily see a 30% cost reduction across the industry just from that.<p>...which is why I&#x27;d be surprised if that actually happened. Such a big restructuring of such a politically powerful industry doesn&#x27;t just happen in our system.