{"id":12663,"date":"2019-02-15T09:08:38","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T14:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12663"},"modified":"2019-02-15T09:09:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T14:09:05","slug":"seema-verma-americans-have-the-right-to-know-their-health-care-and-hospital-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12663","title":{"rendered":"Seema Verma: Americans have the right to know their health care and hospital costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Seema Verma for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"big-cap-wrap\"><span class=\"big-cap\">A<\/span><\/span>mericans are prolific shoppers, constantly on the lookout for the best price for top-quality products and services. If you are searching for a new television, it\u2019s easy to find prices and statistics transparently and prominently displayed at just about every store.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2019\/02\/15\/health-care-hospital-costs\/\"> Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4372\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Seema Verma for STAT) Americans are prolific shoppers, constantly on the lookout for the best price for top-quality products<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,21,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-finance","category-price-transparency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12664,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12663\/revisions\/12664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}