They do post the prices. But how often do you actually go through and examine each code to see the prices? How do you know when you go into a hospital from an ambulance that your issue is due to say, kidney stones and not cancer?
Price transparency works in an environment where a consumer knows all of the choices they have to make. For medical issues we can often only guess when it comes to critical problems, and even other protracted issues that you are aware of can be complex and hard to navigate. If you think price transparency will help then I reckon you're someone that hasn't actually been critically ill before.
Okay if your argument is that they're lying about prices, then how is price transparency going to help? They will keep lying about the prices, or obfuscate prices further by breaking them down into smaller pieces.
Like the reason why insurance companies etc don't care about price transparency is because of the above. You're demanding something that won't work and will never work, unless the government steps in and says XYZ must cost YYY.
They aren’t lying so much as having different price tiers for everyone. The published price is the maximum price, it’s paid for only by auto insurance companies typically. Everyone else has a negotiated lower price.
Medicare prices for all would be a solution for example but doing so would both explode Medicare and bankrupt the hospitals
Price transparency works in an environment where a consumer knows all of the choices they have to make. For medical issues we can often only guess when it comes to critical problems, and even other protracted issues that you are aware of can be complex and hard to navigate. If you think price transparency will help then I reckon you're someone that hasn't actually been critically ill before.