The U.S. healthcare industrial giant is a beast that even Christopher Nolan’s Odysseus would struggle to slay. The multi-tentacled monster — consisting of large hospital systems, insurance conglomerates, and medicine gatekeepers — grows ever larger by the year as Washington feeds it taxpayer dollars. Congress finally seems ready to begin taming it.

The weapon of choice: transparency.

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