Are you aware that this statement cannot be true? It's like potheads holding marijuana up as a panacea. This will reduce income for some number of hospitals, and hospital administration gets a turn at the table too. If you make the business feel pain, they'll pass it on to their customers with some new policy of their own.
If those hospitals are relying on hidden prices to protect their profitability, they are not well run. Period.
It is time. There is no good reason for hiding the true costs. This is the beginning of a much-needed revival in the health-care industry.
I hope they make the penalties prohibitively high.
What motives would they have to reverse it? Don't they claim they're "for the people"?