The Trump administration just issued a new set of rules to address why patients don't have the power to make choices that reflect what's best for them and for their pocketbooks. These go a long way to restore price transparency in health care so that we can access price information when it matters — ahead of time. Yet they need to hear from the public about some of the problems that these rules don't address.
Why is it that when we consume almost anything else, we have detailed information up front about what price we will pay, but in health care, we must wait until after the fact? (And often face unpredictably and unbelievably high prices?)
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