Why Is Healthcare Pricing Still a Secret? The government created two major rules in the early 2020s to help patients understand the actual cost of healthcare: 1️⃣ Transparency in Coverage Rule – Requires insurance companies to disclose negotiated rates. 2️⃣ Hospital Price Transparency Rule – Requires hospitals to publish... their prices. The goal? To create a real marketplace where patients and providers could compare costs and make informed decisions. But here’s the problem: hospitals and insurers aren’t really complying. Instead of clear, easy-to-read pricing, they’ve published huge, unreadable data files called “machine-readable files.” These files are so big that even I can’t download them on my computer. 💰 Why would they do this? Because keeping prices a secret benefits them. If you don’t know what something costs until after treatment, you can’t shop around for better, more affordable care. Imagine going to a restaurant where there’s no menu with prices, and they just hand you the bill at the end. That’s how healthcare works right now. The government knows we need price transparency. But hospitals and insurers are making it as difficult as possible—because when you can’t see the cost, they control the system. If they were truly offering the best care, they wouldn’t need to hide their prices. But I want to know what you think? Should hospitals and insurers be required to provide clear, upfront pricing? Drop your thoughts below.show more

I've never understood why my veterinarian can tell me exactly what any medication, exam, or surgery would cost for my pets, yet the local hospital cannot tell me the cost of anything.

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No price secrets in direct primary care nor at @SurgeryCenterOK #dpc

Absolutely. They also need to eliminate the ACA provisions that made it illegal for physicians/providers to own hospitals. Now we have a bunch of MBA’s running hospitals with most of the cost being admin.

High deductible insurance is a major cost concern as you never know how much you will be billed. It’s ridiculous because even a primary care annual check up can cost over 200$- and that’s on an ACA plan

I love your content. It is also my understanding (correct me if I am wrong) that when the rules were passed, Congress did not fund the mechanism to make it possible. Thus, they knew what they were doing was not going to help the citizens. It was a smokeshow from the start.

Needed changes: -Hospital facility fees must be eliminated -All hospitals should be in a well funded NHS system, eliminating third party profiteers (this is how firehouses are ran) -Banning of monitized EHR/EMR’s like Epic & switch out to free, advanced, easy to use public option

Healthcare is a commodity, we should know what we are paying before we go in. The provider systems don’t want to give numbers because they can’t charge exorbitant amounts when the consumer knows up front.

Thank you! This needs to change!

Yes we need true price transparency that is as easy to read as a restaurant menu. We have that for pet care, so we should have it for our healthcare. We should have the option to consider price when selecting a doctor or selecting a medical facility for tests and treatment, which also means there should be no doctor/provider networks.

We live in a scam society. It's time to clean up every last broken system. We've got nothing better to do, including going to Mars.