Well, this is not a medicare ise because a medicare physician, i guess their very limited and cop strained about what constrained about what they can charge, so i guess its more of a question about private insurance. You want to talk that, lou . Yeah. The question reflects, again, the desire to have greater and Greater Transparency in all aspects of health care, including what providers charge. Two things. First, even though theres no national requirement, i know at least in massachusetts if theres anyone here from massachusetts, there is a new law that requires exactly what you suggest, which is the posting of prices. So thatll be an interesting experiment to see what impact that has. There may be other states, im just not aware of it. Well hear from the Consumer Panel after us, i think what Consumers Want to know is our experience has been what Consumers Want to know is not what the provider charges so much as what do i have to pay, which then relates to what is the charge in relatio
I think this will move it forward. If youre a patient, you care about your metric. Its wonderful were monitoring if doctors give quit smoking advice to patients. Im not a smoker so it doesnt matter to me. What you want to know is i know somebody whos about to have heart valve surgery. They want to know which doctor in their city performs the most heart valve cities and how many patients are alive a year after that. The fact we cannot answer that for that patient today or tomorrow or even next year, like, thats the question we want to answer. Its not like, do your diabetics have their a1c under control . Im not a diabetic, but if im diabetic and its under control for me, i dont care if your other patients are, i care about me. Were a me culture but we have to make sure the data releases can be customizable so the person interested in their own health and their own situation can get some answers from it. Charlie, at the same time, patients are complaining all the time about high copays,