For conservatives, recent developments when it comes to hospital transparency may not come as a shock. The Trump administration tried its best to create a market-based approach to reforming health care and neglect by the Biden administration means those reforms aren’t having their full impact — paving the way for Democrats to propose yet more big-government alternatives.
A series of investigations and reports over the past year-plus, as the Daily Caller News Foundation summarized in January, have found that many hospitals continue to ignore their requirements under the law to provide patients with price information. Properly equipped with this data, consumers could serve as smart shoppers for (non-emergency) health care, such as elective surgeries like knee or hip replacements.
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