Susan Collins actually said...

"The only way price transparency works is, as you said, if you have quality information, and that is how we do tradeoffs."

"In the State of Maine, for example, the cost of a knee replacement can vary from less than $25,000 to more than $50,000."

"I have had specialists in Maine tell me that when patients realize that, they cancel the screening. It just does not make sense to me."

"Actually, without quality information, there is reason to believe it is going to make things worse because people are going to use price as a measure or a marker of quality."