Reality Check w/ John Tracy: It’s time for transparency on health care costs

I used to work as a salesman for a big name music store in Seattle. It’s the kind of job you take between gigs as a semi-working musician.
If you came in to buy a guitar or a drum set from me, we were instructed not to give you the sticker price, but rather, find out how much you were willing to spend.
It was a music store run as a used car lot, and I thought it was sleazy even then.
My practice was to give customers the retail price, and if I could offer a discount I would tell them up fr