Well-informed consumers hold the potential to revolutionize the health care market.
There is no shortage of evidence that Wisconsin’s health care prices have risen far more rapidly than average over the last two decades. A 2005 United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) report using 2001 Federal Employees Health Benefit Program (FEHBP) claims data from” several large PPOs” found that found that 8 of the 10 highest-priced metro areas were in Wisconsin. A similar ranking of hospital prices put Milwaukee and La Crosse at 5th and 10th respectively.
