The Real Cost of Health Care
The Real Cost of Health Care blog series explores the outsized role of hospital pricing in rising health care costs, and the market and legislative fixes necessary to reduce unsustainable cost increases for American businesses and families.
Addressing Market Failure: Lowering Health Care Costs for Americans
The United States is facing a crisis when it comes to health care costs. Prices for lifesaving, necessary care and drugs are simply too high for consumers.
Support for Government Intervention to Solve Rising Health Care Costs
Ever-rising health care costs are causing many across the political spectrum to rethink their priorities and positions on key health care policy issues.
Private Equity Poses Grave Threat to Health Care System
Operating largely beneath the public and regulatory radar, private equity firms have gravitated toward health care over the past decade in pursuit of outsized profits.
Late Pressure to Change Surprise Billing Rules Could Derail Savings
An eleventh-hour bid by private equity companies, hospitals and other provider interests threatens to torpedo Congress’ objectives of protecting patients from exorbitant, surprise medical bills and constraining soaring health care costs.
The Real Cost of Health Care: Hospitals Dragging Their Feet on Price Transparency
This year’s landmark federal rule requiring the nation’s 6,000 hospitals to begin making pricing data available publicly was supposed to help consumers and purchasers shop more intelligently for health care services. But whether that’s actually occurring seems questionable.
