Trump Signs Executive Order Compelling Disclosure of Prices in Health Care
The entire exercise is pointless because the health care market isn't actually a free and open market.  There'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't need or want?  It'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's grip  is broken, we are not going to get relief.