Tom Foley on Health Care

Post costs for treatments to give consumers options

Foley would like to see more transparency with posted costs for treatments to give consumers options. "Nobody is taking costs into account when they make these decisions," Foley said, which leaves a situation where efficiencies will never develop around delivering a service.

"When the government is such a large consumer of healthcare services, they have the opportunity to come in and say 'No. You are not going to get that MRI (at a specific hospital) you are going to have it done at some other hospital or some clinic,'" Foley said. He said by lowering the cost of healthcare, those fixed costs will go down. "I think the way our hospital structure is set up is very high cost," Foley said.