The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has no lack of critics, but consumer groups have recently dialed up the volume by calling the law's price-fairness provision for the uninsured inadequate, according to a report by the Associated Press. The law contains language intended to limit how much nonprofit hospitals can bill uninsured patients to the same prices charged to those with health coverage, but consumer advocacy groups claim the nearly three-year-old provision has done little due to vague requirements, delayed rules and little enforcement or data gathering on the matter, according to the report.
Some states, including California and Colorado, have taken it upon themselves to introduce stricter, clearer pricing policies for uninsured hospital patients, according to the report.
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