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Healthcare Price Transparency is Advancing

Washington Examiner | Sally C. Pipes
January 10, 2022

Healthcare is one of the few sectors of our economy where prices are often unknown or unclear. It's no coincidence that costs in the sector have risen inexorably. More price transparency can help arrest that trend.

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Some Hospitals are Charging 2 or 3 Times More Than the One Next Door

Star-Ledger | Sally C. Pipes
January 7, 2022

Transparent pricing makes markets work more efficiently and benefits consumers. If patients know the price of a procedure, they’ll be able to “shop around” for the best deal, just as they do when buying cars, clothes, and food. Price transparency could save patients and insurers almost $27 billion annually on hospital services,
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The Bioengineered Food Label is Not Expected to Have Any Benefits to Human Health or the Environment

Genetic Literacy Project | Henry I. Miller and Drew Kershen
January 10, 2022

Labeling of foods that have been "genetically modified" or "bioengineered" - is somewhat obscure, but the measure, in the form of a Department of Agriculture regulation that was mandated by the law --affects every American consumer.
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