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 mak...
Actually, without quality information, there is reason to believe it is going to make things worse because people are go...
Researchers have also found that patients equate high prices with high quality.
I really appreciate your being forthright about that, because I believe that if states understood that, they'd be more r...
The BOLD Infrastructure for Alzheimer's Act would create an Alzheimer's public health infrastructure across the country.
Most patients are not going to assume that if they don't use their insurance, they'll get a better price.
I was very pleased this morning to hear you endorse the prohibition on gag clauses on pharmacists...
I'm also very concerned about the problems of gaming the patent system through strategies such as patent thickets and ev...
This system is opaque, and the incentives are frequently perverse in drug pricing.