It seems like the one thing missing in all the Washington political debates over our broken healthcare system is any real consideration of real impacts on real patients in the real world. As a physician who delivered babies in Utah hospitals for nearly twenty years, I’ve seen what can happen to families when costs run amuck. It appears to me now that it is time for patients to play hardball and demand transparency and fairness from hospital providers.
Everyone knows hospital costs are out of control. Thousands of Utah patients are baffled each year trying to comprehend the convoluted prices charged by Utah hospitals for in-patient medical care.