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Health Care Transparency: The Fox Is Guarding the Chicken Coop in Washington Again
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Now that more people can shop directly for their own health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, they have been transformed from potential patients to consumers, and like any other consumers of goods or services, they want to know if what they're buying is any good. They want to compare the prices and value of what's on offer. In our notoriously inefficient and uneven health care system, this is a desperately needed shift. Theoretically, the best providers should win the greater market share.
But transparency can only happen if consumers have access to credible, accurate, and well-sourced information. The market for this kind of data is potentially enormous, so it's no surprise that information companies are rushing to fill the gap. There's big money to be made.
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