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A group of new bills currently progressing in the Pennsylvania state legislature could change the way the state's consumers shop for healthcare. The bills, which are part of an overall health reform push by Gov. Ed Rendell (D), include a measure requiring the state's pharmacies to submit their retail prices on the 150 most popular drugs to the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council. This measure would also call for the state to launch a hospital payment registry, which would detail payments hospitals received for the 150 most frequent admitting diagnoses and most-frequently dispensed drugs. The prices would need to include the amount uninsured patients pay, the amount patients with high-deductible plans pay, and the average payment accepted from standard health plans.

For more about the proposals:
- read this Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article

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Mr Rendell means well but must do more in making the Drs and healthcre agencies report errors, mistakes, and own up to their mistakes, and stop protecting the state medical, and liscensing boards, he claims drs are leaving Pa ,this is an untruth if they leave it is because of undisclosed medical errors to patients and lawsuits are pending, this will stop if the drs are held accountable for their actions and patients do not have to depend on a certificate of merit which is unjust, it protects the drs , thus denying the injured compensation when they finally find out what their injury stemmed from ,this is nothing but a big cover up again and the guilty are let go and the injured are punished, we need new direction, we need leaders not followers, we need people who are willing to stand for justice,truth, not go with a thought just becuase everyone else is doing it does not make it right .We need the Democrats in to finish cleaning house and I believe we will see a change in this country and nation .We have so many liars, thieves that keep taking from the poor to pad their own pockets and thank god this is starting to change, but why does it take a tragety for CHANGE???????are we not smart enough to make good choices using common sense maybe some were never born with it.

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