A Tough Negotiator Proves Employers Can Bargain Down Health Care Prices

October 2, 2018

One woman found a way to attack high health insurance prices. And that’s news because it’s hard for any one person to do. If you go to the hospital, the hospital charges your insurer, which passes the cost on to you. And it’s hard to negotiate a better price in that system. Marshall Allen of the nonprofit newsroom ProPublica has been investigating high health insurance costs. And he has the story of a woman who used her power to hold them down.

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