America’s healthcare system hides prices from patients, and seniors are paying the price.
Hospitals and insurers continue to keep real costs in the dark, leaving patients, employers, and retirees unable to make informed decisions or protect themselves from outrageous overcharges.
That must change. The Patients Deserve Price Tags Act (S.2355), a bill led by Senator and Dr. Roger Marshall (R-KS), will finally require real, upfront pricing across the healthcare system.
The Problem:
- Over 75% of hospitals are not fully complying with existing transparency rules.
- Only 27 hospitals have been penalized for hiding prices, despite widespread noncompliance.
- Seniors and consumers still can’t access real, clear costs before receiving care.
- Employers and unions can’t even access their own claims data to review bills or detect fraud.
The Solution: The Patients Deserve Price Tags Act (S.2355):
- Requires hospitals, insurers, labs, and surgery centers to post all real, negotiated prices—not just estimates or averages.
- Ends the price estimator loophole and holds providers accountable with stronger penalties.
- Guarantees employers’ access to claims data and ensures oversight of third-party administrators and PBMs.
- Mandates a clear, itemized bill for every patient and a detailed explanation of benefits for all services.
- Helps consumers shop for care, prevents surprise bills, and lowers healthcare costs.
This legislation will empower patients, increase competition, and allow savings to go back into the pockets of seniors, workers, and families, not hidden in bloated hospital or insurance costs.
Contact your U.S. Senators and urge them to co-sponsor the Patients Deserve Price Tags Act (S.2355) today! It’s time to demand honesty, accountability, and fairness in healthcare.
The problem is NOT hospitals and doctors. It’s THE INSURANCE INDUSTRY and its powerful lobby. It OWNS the Hill and our elected “representatives”. They are responsible for the “fees” schedules that the doctors/hospitals are “allowed” to charge. If the problem is to be solved, the third party payer system needs to be overhauled, regulated or eliminated. My credentials? 41 years as a licensed healthcare provider DISGUSTED with the insurance companies and government’s failure to address the needs of the consumer and their willingness to aid the insurance industry instead.
The worst part of obamacare (the real culprit) is the requirement of putting ALL medical and personal info into computers for easy access on the internet. This left with talking to the back of their doctors while the doctors did computer input. The quality of care took a nose-dive. Low paid medical ‘paper pushers’ are careless with other peoples’ info; hackers have been hacking into this ‘gift’ from obama and have been stealing name, SS#, address, birthdate, & phone #. There was no provision in obamacare to hold the careless companies who stored this info without written permission of the patient for the damages that could be done at any time during the rest of a patient’s life. All the criminals do is not do anything for a year and then start selling the info. obamacare NEEDS to be ended and all comptuer patient info deleted. Those records belong ON PAPER ONLY in the patient’s doctor’s office.
Why do you show only democrat senators below my request for fully showing patients charges before their being hospitalized?