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A surgeon’s late-night crisis reveals the cost confusion in health care

Christine Ward, MD
Policy
April 29, 2025

During Trump’s first address to Congress, he continued to promise economic reform. In the wake of the administration’s brazen attempts to cut costs, we have watched in awe as combat veterans are fired from the VA, lifelong civil servants are left jobless, all while hearing the continuous insistence that the government must become more “efficient,” even in the face of Read more…

A surgeon’s late-night crisis reveals the cost confusion in health care

How price transparency fails patients and what insurers must reveal next

Christine Ward, MD
Physician
March 30, 2025

In his deluge of executive orders, Trump once again is focusing on health care cost transparency.

Efforts to open the lock on health care costs began in 2019 under the Trump administration with mandated publication of hospital price lists, called chargemasters. These price lists are arbitrary, as they have no relation to the contracted …

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How price transparency fails patients and what insurers must reveal next

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