Price transparency laws for healthcare organizations were first implemented in 2021 and have progressively strengthened since, but have they helped patients? The laws were introduced during President ...

For years, many industries, from housing to travel to financial services, have quietly relied on complexity in the fine print to obscure true pricing. Pricing disclosures became increasingly opaque, ...

Countries like El Salvador (32) and Ecuador (33) are experiencing a decline in transparency and civic freedoms, with laws limiting NGOs’ access to funding and obstructing their operations, paired with ...

The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2025 ranks 182 countries and territories: the global average dropped to 42, and 122 countries score below 50, signalling widespread public sector corruption.

The 31 st edition of the CPI shows that the number of countries scoring above 80 has fallen from 12 a decade ago to just five in 2025. Democracies, traditionally stronger performers on anti-corruption ...

The United States has fallen to its worst-ever position in a leading global index that measures perception of corruption in the public sector among independent experts and businesspeople. The world’s ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Duncan Madden is a travel writer living in Köln, Barcelona and London. This is a big year for the U.S. In 2026, it celebrates the ...

Once seen as anti-graft strongholds, the US, UK, Canada and Sweden are slipping into decline due to a lack of political leadership, Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index has ...

Vertical integration and limited PBM competition can distort formulary placement incentives, enabling rebate-driven list price inflation while obscuring true net costs from employers, pharmacies, and ...

Countries’ drop in scores in annual table comes amid ‘worrying trend’ of backsliding in established democracies The UK and US have sunk to new lows in a global index of corruption, amid a “worrying ...

Republicans think patients should be shopping for better health care prices. The party has long pushed to give patients money and let consumers do the work of reducing costs. After some GOP lawmakers ...