This whole issue of “surprise bills” is a symptom of a more pernicious economic disease which has been driving prices … More
Tag: price transparency
Pillars of the FMMA | Free Market Medical Association
1. PRICE PRICE is NOT a product. CARE is the product. Selling access to pricingis anti-free market. Discount brokers” who … More
Medicare Turns Health-Care Prices Into a Guessing Game – WSJ
Healthcare costs…time to rethink the calculus!
For anyone still laboring under the myth that insurance carriers are motivated to hold down costs in healthcare OR that … More
Pillars of the FMMA | Free Market Medical Association
The Pillars of the FMMA were created due to the wildly varying definitions of free market and transparency. As this … More
Fears of the Free-Market as a Race to the Bottom are Unfounded
Under-Appreciated Benefits of Markets
By Robert Nelson, MD Honest price-transparent markets allow value propositions to surface and to be discovered. Contrary to the outcries … More
Carrier Networks and the Cartel-ization of Healthcare
by Robert Nelson, MD When we have a situation, as we do in healthcare, where the networks have cornered … More
Forum for Healthcare Freedom 