[pbreit]

Price transparency is a key part of Obamacare and is apparently beginning to work. For example, insurance companies in Oregon reduced premiums after seeing competitor prices [1].

1: http://www.oregonlive.com/health/index.ssf/2013/05/two_orego...

[prostoalex]

Insurance price transparency != hospital price transparency. It's actually easy to avoid insurance price transparency by manipulating deductibles, co-pays, and lists of supported medications.