WASHINGTON, D.C. – Price transparency can lower costs and improve health outcomes for families, workers, and small businesses, witnesses testified at a Ways and Means Committee hearing on health care price transparency. Witnesses shared their firsthand experience of using price transparency to benefit patients seeking care or small businesses sponsoring insurance for their ...
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"Today’s hearing will focus on the health care marketplace and how it’s become more consolidated and less competitive in recent years, leading to higher prices and fewer options for patients.
"There are many factors that contribute to this problem, and we need to work together and find bipartisan solutions.
"Whether ...
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"Today, when a family faces a sudden illness, a chronic health issue, or a life-threatening accident their first thought is fear for the health of their loved one. Their second is to worry about how they will afford it.
"When concerned about their health, patients don’t want to be contestants on a game show trying to guess which hospital door leads ...
On Wednesday, the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health held a hearing examining policies that inhibit medical innovation and reduce patient access to new therapies. The Subcommittee discussed the Biden Administration’s decisions to limit access to new and innovative treatments for patients through Democrat ...
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"Thank you all for being with us. Today’s hearing will focus on innovation and some of the biggest roadblocks.
"We can all agree that America is the global leader of innovation, and the government should do everything it can to foster an environment that promotes greater innovation and patient access to innovative care.
"Unfortunately, we have all ...
WASHINGTON, DC —Patients, caregivers, and practitioners will soon see fewer cures should the Biden Administration move forward with implementing its drug price-setting guidance, write House Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith (MO-08), House Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05), and U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance ...
Washington, D.C. – House Committee on Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) pointed to the negative impacts of Democrats’ reckless spending in a statement about the 2023 Medicare & Social Security Trustees Reports:
“Thanks to President Biden’s economic failures, seniors’ hard-earned benefits are further under threat. Social Security’s combined trust ...
WASHINGTON, DC – During Tuesday’s House Ways and Means Committee hearing, Republicans questioned HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra on President Biden’s budget gimmicks, why he offers no plan to prevent $500 billion in looming cuts to Medicare, why HHS employees are not showing up to work, and why wealthy families are eligible for taxpayer-funded Obamacare ...
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"Thank you, Secretary Becerra, for testifying today before this committee.
"The President’s 2024 budget doubles down on harmful policies that will only make access and affordability of care worse: killing new medical innovation, false promises of Medicare solvency with real consequences, and ...
WASHINGTON, DC – Americans operating small businesses who are being crushed by Obamacare regulations and raging inflation under the Biden Administration testified before the Ways and Means Health Subcommittee last week led by Subcommittee Chairman Vern Buchanan (FL-16) about the challenges they face in affording and providing health insurance for their ...
