The Consent Trap: Agreeing to Medical Bills Without Knowing Prices

How can you consent to paying for something if you don’t know the price? In today’s podcast, AnneMarie Schieber of Health Care News and Devon Herrick of the Goodman Institute Health Care Blog talk about New York State’s decision to ban “consent to pay” forms at medical practices. Also on tap: reforming health care without a political fight, the RESULT Act being reintroduced, which fast-tracks successful treatments in trusted countries but comes too late for one Alzheimer’s patient, “Name it to tame it,” is over-diagnosing symptoms driving up health care utilization?—and has private equity ruined the doctor-patient relationship? Be sure to check out Health Care News at the Heartland.org website and the Goodman Institute Health Blog for the free-market perspective on the very latest in health care news.

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The Consent Trap: Agreeing to Medical Bills Without Knowing Prices is an episode from Health Care News Podcast by Heartland Institute.

This episode is 53:42 long.

This episode was published on Mar 31, 2025.

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