We first blogged on transparency in health care pricing and consumer-centric health care in 2005:
"One of these tools is the pilot transparency program."
So yes, we've long been advocates of what I called the McDonald's Model:
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But FoIB Bob Graboyes of the Mercatus Institute offers a contrarian's take:
HEALTHCARE TRANSPARENCY MANDATES — FIRST, DO NO HARM: Op-ed on a point that Jessie McBirney and made in a recent @mercatus paper: why broad-brush healthcare price transparency mandates can paradoxically REDUCE competition and INCREASE prices. https://t.co/o2X1YoAYoQ
— Robert Graboyes (@Robert_Graboyes) August 31, 2020
Interesting.
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