As Democrats and Republicans fight over details of new rules for medical price transparency, the welfare of patients is lost in the fog of partisan war. If you look critically at how healthcare dollars currently flow, it is clear that price transparency won’t work. There are five reasons why price transparency cannot achieve its stated goal of reducing healthcare prices. Since disconnection — of buyer (patient) from seller (provider ) — is the reason healthcare is failing and why price transparency won’t work, reconnection will permanently fix both problems. By restoring spending control with the necessary funds to the public, all price transparency and BURRDEN become unnecessary.