MA makes the biggest push yet to make healthcare prices public

In the United States, it's difficult -- if not impossible -- to find out the price of health-care services in advance, making it hard to get the best deal. Massachusetts has now taken the effort of making prices publicly available further than any other state. Starting this month as part of its 2012 law that caps health-care prices and establishes new oversight agencies in an attempt to drive down costs, all private insurers in the state had to begin posting the most accurate price estimates possible for an array of procedures on their websites.