By The Gazette Editorial Board ----- We’ve long advocated that health care reform in this country must include a major effort to curb health care cost increases, which have outpaced that of virtually every other vital service or product.But we see no clear way of doing so as long as there is so much confusion about the cost of care.Last week, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released billing data from 3,300 hospitals around the country, revealing mind-boggling discrepancies in those hospitals’ charges for many common procedures — sometimes even within the same city or service area.That reinforces the findings ...