Federal Price-Transparency Rules: How Congress Can Make Them

Americans spend more on health care than any other people on the planet. Yet most Americans have no idea of the actual cost of even the most common medical treatments or procedures. The absence of market forces on medical pricing partially explains the excessive health care costs for individuals and families. Price transparency can help to begin to resolve that problem.

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