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Hospitals and Insurers Didn’t Want You to See These Prices. Here’s Why.
This year, the federal government ordered hospitals to begin publishing a prized secret: a complete list of the prices they negotiate with private insurers. The insurers’ trade association had called the rule unconstitutional...
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Download your sign today!
Show your support for healthcare price transparency by downloading the signs linked below, taking a picture with the signs, and sending your photos to pledges@iwv.org.
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Price Transparency Checklist: Genuine Vs. Counterfeit
By Independent Women’s Voice A useful checklist – both for inclusion and to ensure they are not omitted – for health care price transparency that will actually allow price discovery and consequently markets to work. Rea...
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Health Care Price Transparency Is a Win for All Americans. Now Congress Must Act
Cynthia Fisher for FoxNews.com Cynthia A. Fisher is a life sciences entrepreneur, and founder and chairman of PatientRightsAdvocate.org. Tuesday was a huge win for patients and a tremendous victory for all Americans ...
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Patients Deserve To Know Real Prices and Have a Trusted, Competitive Marketplace in Healthcare
Real price transparency in healthcare will eliminate price gouging and surprise billing. Patients and employers will be able to shop in a functional, competitive market, negotiate when the bill doesn’t match the price, and ul...
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The 2020 Sleeper Issue
Former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Patient Protection Pledge signer
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Patient Protection Commitment Offers Political Transparency On Price Transparency
The well known rule of how to win in politics is to find an issue that has the approval of two thirds of the electorate, stand beside it, and smile. Conservatives already happen to have such an issue in their portfolio, but t...
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