Eva V. Regel joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “How Should Clinicians Help Homeless Trauma Survivors Make Irreversible Surgical Care Decisions?”

Dr Helen Stanton Chapple joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: "Solidarity in Mortal Time.”

These key steps are ones health sector stakeholders should take to help patients and clinicians use pricing information to inform health decision making.

For dying patients and their loved ones to make informed decisions, physicians must share adequate information about prognoses, prospective benefits and harms of specific interventions, and costs.

Online tools intended to make health care purchasing resemble “consumerism” have had little effect on improving transparency for patients.

More transparent pricing would allow patients and families to make better decisions, but there are limitations to how reliably it promotes efficiency and market discipline.

Fragmentation in US health care delivery streams and shortcomings in formal quality measures mean that transparency could be more useful to policymakers and regulators than patients.

This watercolor visually considers which values our words and actions endorse.

This comic compares a lack of price transparency in health care billing to psychic card readings.