05.24.2023 / Statement

Families USA: House Energy & Commerce Committee Continues to Prioritize Families’ Health, Wallets

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Frederick Isasi, executive director of Families USA, issued the following statement after the House Energy & Commerce Committee moved forward on legislation to address price transparency and dishonest billing.

“Today, the House Energy & Commerce Committee took another significant step to improve health care affordability by advancing critical legislation that will help families’ health and wallets.

“Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Ranking Member Frank Pallone have continued to prioritize solving key pieces of our nation’s affordability crisis by taking steps to curtail abusive business practices and price gouging. We encourage Congress to continue making improvements to price transparency legislation, including creating a legal obligation, as found in other elements of the Medicare program, for Chief Executive Officers of hospitals to confirm the hospital has fully complied with price transparency, as well as pursuing other solutions, such as expanding site neutral payments to further crack down on corporate gaming and support health care delivery in the most efficient location – not just the ones that net higher profits for big health care corporations.

“Now that this legislation has cleared another major hurdle with overwhelming bipartisan support, we are calling on Speaker McCarthy to bring this legislation to the floor for a full vote and reinvest those savings in additional policies to increase affordability, improve quality, and address long-standing inequities.”

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