Health care costs are too high. Pundits, policy experts and policymakers have failed to see or have feared to say: there is no free market in health care. Congress has permitted the pharmaceutical industry, lab companies, device and equipment manufacturers, hospitals, nursing homes and others to hide behind a veil of secrecy about the prices they charge, effectively sanctioning massive gouging of patients, businesses, states and taxpayers. Something needs to be done about high healtcare costs.



