Consumers First Joint Statement for the Record for the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee

Consumers First, the alliance that brings together the interests of consumers, employers, labor unions, and primary care clinicians working to realign and improve the fundamental economic incentives and design of the health care system, submitted this joint statement for the record to the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee ahead of their March 28th hearing on “Lowering Unaffordable Costs: Examining Transparency and Competition in Health Care.”

This statement urges the committee to consider well-vetted, bipartisan, and commonsense legislation that would remedy some of the most obvious health system failings, and to take on rising health industry consolidation among hospitals, insurers, and other health care organizations that enables anticompetitive behaviors, prevents healthy competition in markets and results in monopolies that have the ability to set outrageous and unjustifiable prices.