The U.S. House of Representatives recently took important steps to broaden health care price transparency systemwide by passing the popular and bipartisan Lower Costs, More Transparency (LCMT) Act ...

Hospital and health-insurance lobby groups claim that Mr Trump’s price-transparency plan will backfire and prices will rise. What happens eventually may vary from place to place.

And the typical rationale for how transparency can help consumers doesn’t apply in the nonsensical health care industry. The president’s Democratic opponents must embrace a different approach.