Trump, To Cut Health Care Costs and Boost Quality, Lays Groundwork for ‘Radical Transparency’

By requiring prices for medical care to be made public, a true market can emerge for the first time in modern health care history.

by Newt Gingrich

In February, President Trump signed an executive order calling for “radical transparency” in health care costs and quality. It called for “the disclosure of the actual prices of items and services, not estimates”

It is hard to exaggerate the potential importance of this order.

For decades, health care has been the largest single sector of …