In his recent speech on health care, President Trump highlighted a proposed rule that hospitals make their prices public. It’s time for hospitals to comply. Transparency will likely lead to lower prices and a reduction in health care spending. Many policy experts dismiss the importance of price transparency in health care. Skeptics argue that because health insurance insulates … [Read more...] about How price transparency would revolutionize healthcare
Transparent Prices Will Help Consumers and Employers Reduce Health Spending
In this new paper, Galen Senior Fellow Brian Blase explains that greater transparency in health care pricing will help employers to offer better payment structures for their employees and give employees and other consumers more tools to get better value in health spending. Price transparency should also will give employers the ability to monitor insurer effectiveness and eliminate … [Read more...] about Transparent Prices Will Help Consumers and Employers Reduce Health Spending
Five smart ways Trump has improved our health care system
New York Post — Good politics involves consistent, simple messages. Opponents of the Trump administration believe they have found one with health care: sabotage. When new numbers showed a small uptick in the number of uninsured from 2017 to 2018 (which actually resulted from ObamaCare’s own failures), Democratic presidential candidates and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi all had statements … [Read more...] about Five smart ways Trump has improved our health care system
Transparency in Health Care Prices
To the [NY Times] Editor: Re “Four Key Things You Should Know About Health Care” (Op-Ed, nytimes.com, Sept. 12): Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Victor R. Fuchs argue that price transparency won’t lower health care costs. Fortunately, they’re wrong, largely because they missed several avenues for how transparency will help. Transparency should lower prices through four critical paths: better … [Read more...] about Transparency in Health Care Prices
Health Reform Progress Beyond Repeal and Replace
From the start of 2017 through the fall of that year, Congress labored to pass legislation to replace large parts of the Affordable Care Act. Ultimately, political obstacles proved insurmountable, and Congress was unable to enact a health reform bill. Soon after that failure, President Trump signed an executive order promoting health care choice and competition and directing the administration to … [Read more...] about Health Reform Progress Beyond Repeal and Replace