Shopping for a hotel reservation is easy these days because you can just hop on the computer, do a price check, make sure there aren't any reports of bedbugs, and you're good to go.

Some sites, like Priceline, even let you do the online version of haggling: name the price you're willing to pay and the site matches you with a hotel willing to accept your bid. And now some entrepreneurs are now trying to mold this approach to the field of health care, where it's notoriously difficult to shop around.

Southern California Public Radio's Rebecca Plevin has been looking into the pros and cons of these types of tools and she joins Tess Vigeland in studio to talk about them. She joins the show every week for our regular consumer health segment "Impatient."

For a full breakdown click on the audio embedded at the top of the post, or check out Rebecca's blog.