Trump Signs Executive Order Compelling Disclosure of Prices in Health Care
This is a really important goal, but whether simple mandates can solve it, I&#x27;m not sure. The real problem is that consumers don&#x27;t <i>care</i> about the prices, which is how all the various layers of providers and middlemen are able to jack up all the prices without limit.<p>High deductibles are one way that consumers can be made to care, but obviously that has its own problems. Single-payer would not fix the problem by itself, either... although using monopsony power could certainly help, if executed competently.<p>Merging a single-payer approach with a high deductible approach could work, and the deductibles could actually be paid via a government-filled HSA account that one could rollover into a retirement or college savings account, if unspent.