Public Citizen – Shedding Light on Health Care Prices: “Out-of- pocket health care costs for patients are soaring in the United States. Since 2010, insurance deductibles for workers have risen three times as fast as premiums and about seven times as fast as wages and inflation. For nearly two decades, states have attempted to address this problem by passing laws to allow policy makers, researchers, and consumers to better understand and access health care cost information. Some states are doing this by collecting, tracking, and making health cost information more transparent for the public. However, these health care transparency initiatives have not been implemented in all states and there is a wide variance among the states that do collect and publish this information…”