“If consumers become more engaged — if patients start to act like consumers — they will start to trigger changes in the marketplace that will lower costs.”

—MARTHA BEBINGER, reporter for WBUR, Boston's NPR affiliate, and creator of Healthcare Savvy, a social network hosted on the station's website through which people can compare prices of health care, share stories and swap tips on how to reduce costs, as part of a larger effort to bargain down health care costs. [via NPR]