Information on the Affordable Care Act's insurance exchanges

Here is a website form Blue Cross of Illinois, our largest medical insurance provider in IL, and one of the companies that will be offering policies on the new IL insurance exchange starting Oct. 1st.
It is very informative and uses some hypothetical cases. 

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This is a summary of a recent study by the National Institutes of Health showing an enormous variation in the quoted prices for hip replacements by various hospitals -- from $11,100 to more than $125,000! They also found most hospitals would not give a price quote for the procedure. The authors wrote "There is no justification for the inability to report a fee estimate, or a 12-fold price variation for a common elective procedure like a hip replacement."
Why do we have these huge price variations with hospital procedures?

http://www.medpagetoday.com/Orthopedics/Orthopedics/37313