Patients’ group urges Trump to take on healthcare ‘fat cats,’ demand real price transparency
FIRST ON FOX: A nonprofit patient rights advocacy group is urging President Donald Trump to take immediate action to enhance price transparency of healthcare costs as the White House weighs...
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FIRST ON FOX: A nonprofit patient rights advocacy group is urging President Donald Trump to take immediate action to enhance price transparency of healthcare costs as the White House weighs a new healthcare proposal. PatientsRightsAdvocate.org , (PRA), a nonpartisan group focused on enhancing systemwide healthcare price transparency and quality, is calling on the Trump administration to take steps to improve on informing patients what their healthcare services will cost as the White House prepares to unveil a new healthcare proposal. "You recently articulated a compelling vision: Americans, not insurance companies, should be in control of their healthcare dollars ," PRA founder Cynthia Fisher wrote in a letter to Trump Tuesday. "Empowering people directly is the most effective way to restore fairness, choice, and accountability to a system that has too long served corporate interests instead of the American people." Specifically, Fisher urged Trump to take steps through the Department of Labor to ensure that employers that provide healthcare receive full access to claims, payments to providers and a rundown of fees so they can facilitate lower costs that result in lower fees for their employees. TRUMP'S SHUTDOWN IS JACKPOT FOR BILLIONAIRES WHILE WORKING AMERICANS PAY Likewise, she encouraged Trump to back the Patients Deserve Price Tags Act spearheaded by senators Roger Marshall, R-Kan., and John Hickenlooper, D-Colo. The measure would require hospitals to provide the actual prices of approximately 300 services and would require providers or facilities to craft a detailed itemized bill of each separate item or service. "By doing this, you will deliver a system in which patients, employers, and unions — not the insurance and private equity fat cats — hold the power," Fisher wrote in her letter. These efforts would build on previous actions from the Trump administration, Fisher said. NEWT GINGRICH: THE SIMPLEST WAY TO MAKE AMERICAN LIFE AFFORDABLE AGAIN For example,…