We now have even more evidence that hospital consolidation leads to higher health care prices. Will the FTC finally act?

The FTC wins its case against a proposed hospital merger in Ohio. Consumers would benefit from more such trust-busting, because consolidated hospitals drive up health care prices.

Americans get charged a lot more than other countries for the same kind of treatment. But there are some obvious solutions already available to us.

Public pressure is mounting on the health care industry to get serious about price transparency.

A trend towards cutting back on unnecessary procedures could save patients real time and money. Unfortunately, some medical guilds aren’t eager to reduce waste that’s profitable to their memberships.

Doctors in Texas have found a way to save patients money, but the ACA threatens to quash their innovation.

Medicare gives doctors an incentive to prescribe expensive drugs, likely costing the Federal government billions of dollars every year. But the solution to this problem isn’t more regulation or more federal control over health care; it’s more consumer control.

A small subset of doctors are gaming the fee-for-service system and getting rich off Medicare. Reform is necessary, but health care guilds are standing in the way.

Most U.S. states don’t provide the information consumers need to make better choices, says a new study. The health care market desperately needs price transparency, but it’s proving hard to do.

A grassroots national movement to bring price transparency to health care is gaining momentum. This is the kind of thing we should look out for if we want to find reforms that can bend the cost curve.