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In this section of our website we will make every effort to index where information on health care quality and prices are available. It will be a rapidly growing and evolving catalogue. We will invite entries and post as many as possible, from both the public and private sector.
Our Letter to the Wisconsin Legislature
OutOfPocket.com
is a website to expose true prices (how much things really cost) for routine health care services. The website allows consumers to post prices they paid for health care services and search the directory to look up true prices for services. The directory is supplemented with Medicare price directories for common services and true price lists from health care providers.
The Evidence-Based Health Policy Project has released a document of online resources for people interested in Health Care Purchasing and Utilization Decisions and the Challenges Facing Consumers and Employers. Click Here for the PDF Document.
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"The essential problem with the health care industry is that it has been shielded from consumer control by employers, insurers and the government."
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Regina E. Herzlinger,
Professor at the Harvard Business School and
Author of "Market Driven Health Care"
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Universal health insurance coverage for all Americans can best be achieved by lowering the cost of health care; lower costs mean lower more affordable premiums. Government run health care monopolies promise coverage for all but then control costs through price setting and access to care. The Wisconsin Tea Party looks to the inspiration of our Founders for a better way:
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"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of society, but of the people themselves: and if we think of them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion."
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Thomas Jefferson,
letter to William Charles Jarvis
September 28th, 1820
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Submissions for our Transparency Index should be submitted
though our Executive Director:
Jeffrey J. Beiriger
beiriger@cf-law.com
c/o Cook & Franke
414-227-1202
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