Transparency in Coverage Can Help American Mothers Now, Not Later

American families have long made the commonsense argument that we must know the price of health care before we receive it.

Nowhere is the lack of price transparency more evident than in childbirth, and the months leading up to it, where millions of women and families make life-altering medical decisions without any clear understanding of what those decisions will cost them.

Today, expecting mothers routinely enter hospitals blind. They may know their due date, their doctor, and their birth plan, but not whether delivering their child will cost $5,000 or $50,000. Even women with insurance often learn the true price only weeks or months after giving birth, when the bills arrive and financial stress replaces what should be a moment of joy.

Read more at the Daily Signal.