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Governor Rick Scott wants hospitals to post their prices for procedures and annual financial reports on their web sites. Scott also wants to give consumers a place to complain when they feel they have been charged too much. Today Scott said hospitals want tax payer dollars, then taxpayers should know how they are using the money.

“We’ve got to make sure they put out the information so people know what things are going to cost. All hospitals should have the same standard for what disclosure they are going to make. If they’re going to come back and ask us for your tax dollars, because its your tax dollars we’re spending, we don’t know how they’re spending the money. What is there cost structure? What’s their price? We should know all these things if they‘re going to ask for out tax dollars, and that’s what they’re doing” Scott told reporters,

During much of the 1980’s Florida required hospitals to publish their costs and profit structures, but the legislation was weakened and finally abolished in the 1990’s.