To Bring Healthcare Prices Down, Consumers Must Demand Price Transparency
http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2013/03/20/to-bring-healthcare-prices-down-consumers-must-demand-price-transparency/
The biggest thing to understand is that for our health care costs to drop by 30% that means that the often insane profits that the industry makes has to dramatically drop. That, of course, translates to lower bonuses to pharmaceutical executives, lower paychecks for millionaire doctors, smaller returns on investment to Wall Street, etc., etc., etc. Since the health care industry is over $2.5 TRILLION dollars a year (just here in the US), that means removing 30% of the cost means that someone is going to wind up losing over $750 BILLION dollars. What is the chance of that happening here in the US? The same place where banks are too big to fail (and too big to jail) and when a company gets a billion dollar fine for illegal activity all the executives get bonuses.
Nope, tain’t gunna happen here!
