‘The Internet Hates Secrets’: Clear Health Costs Works with Newsrooms to Bring Healthcare Costs Out of Hiding

“The voicemails would make you want to cry.”

When New Orleans’ WVUE Fox 8 News invited viewers to get in touch and share their healthcare costs, they weren’t sure what kind of response they’d receive. Would people be willing to dig up the explanation-of-benefits forms they’d received from their insurance companies? Would they be okay sharing what they paid for colonoscopies, MRIs, routine blood tests?

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