I know! It will NEVER HAPPEN. For the express reason of transparency. Which is why it SHOULD happen. Think about what it could do for the medical industry, especially with regards to how the government is involved. If providers were compensated for what they offered, and entities were reimbursed for money not used, think of all the middle-men that would not need to be paid huge salaries for auditing and claims adjusting? Then again, we'd have a lot of people out of jobs. But I think it would be a worthy growing pain.
I loved this post. Very provocative.