The leader of the St. Louis Business Group on Health makes yet another plea for pricing transparency: http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Content/Blog/2010/Oct/Time-to-Unmask-the-Price-Differences-in-Health-Care.aspx
While pricing transparency would help consumers make better choices, what is really needed is for health insurers to identify high performing providers and then through benefit incentives "push" their members to use them. Expecting consumers to make cost and quality decisions on their own is not just realistic.
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