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The lack of transparency in prices in so much of our healthcare system is shocking. All actual prices should be revealed, and bills should be itemized, just as we expect them to be at hotels, grocery stores and for all other products and services in the marketplace.

Guest post by Cynthia A. Fisher

A series of recent lawsuits over unreasonable employer health plan costs could revolutionize U.S. healthcare in the same way lawsuits over high-cost retirement plans transformed investing a decade or so ago.

This summer the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Tiara Yachts, Inc. (a Holland, MI, boatmaker) in its lawsuit against its third-party administrator, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM), for systemically overpaying health claims and squan

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