One of our major initiatives at UP is a health care price transparency policy we call “No Price, No Payment.” If a hospital or clinic, or pharmacy, or physician doesn’t post prices of services or inform patients what treatments or drugs or surgeries cost, the patient doesn’t have to pay. This is necessary because the health care industry has mostly ignored Trump’s first term executive order of health care price transparency – a policy that was presented to Trump in the Oval Office by our co-founder Arthur Laffer and our economic policy council member Cynthia Fisher.

Now, Trump may again take a version of our policy advice because he is frustrated with the routine noncompliance with his EO. He’s suggesting steep fines for failure to comply. We urge Congress also to get in the game and adopt “No Price, No Payment” legislation. We would think that Democrats who keep complaining about the high cost of health care would be all over this.