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Policy Issue:

Healthcare Price Transparency

Price transparency in health care will deliver better information and choices for patients, create greater accountability system-wide, and restore trust between patients and providers, encourage competition, and ultimately, lower costs.


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HERE’S WHAT’S HAPPENING:

Healthcare price transparency is a bipartisan issue, with about 90 percent public support! The Trump Administration has taken action to require healthcare providers to disclose their prices, starting in 2021. Lawmakers in Congress are considering the Health Care PRICE Transparency Act, which would codify the Administration’s actions and make price transparency the law!

WHY YOU SHOULD CARE:

We would never agree to buy anything without knowing how much it is going to cost. Prices in health care should work the same way. We should be able to plan ahead for how to pay and shop among providers. We should make informed, value-driven decisions about our care. And we should know what our out-of-pocket costs will be, as well as what costs, markups, discounts, and payments others pay on our behalf.

How Do I Talk About This Issue?

Health Care

The U.S. doesn’t have a health care crisis, but we do have a health costs crisis and a health choice crisis. Americans have access to the best care in the world, with low wait times and high cancer survival rates. But Americans lack choice…

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Price Transparency

What to look for—either the dodges that mean the status quo is pretending to permit price transparency, but we won’t in fact get lower costs or functioning markets, or that the benefits to ordinary Americans and a rational, affordable healthcare system will finally return.

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