I look forward to continuing to work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to get the Health Care Price Transparency Act 2.0 to the President's desk.

Today I am releasing a report that highlights the need for Congress to enact additional transparency across the health care supply chain.

That is why hospitals now comprise about 45 percent of the health care dollar because they have bought up so many clinics, and as soon as they buy the clinics the prices go up.

It is time to deliver for our seniors, our families, and Americans all across the country.

President Trump put in place regulations requiring hospitals and insurers to disclose prices. President Biden has continued to support it.

By the way, before my time runs out, back in 2008, the insurance companies told me that if you can create a market and an engaged consumer you will save so much money.

that is the ultimately behavior of a monopoly, and remember, they are the supplier, and this is going against their own customers, and that, to me, is indicative of why we are in the pickle we are in.

All insurance companies basically do this.

one of the reasons that the Braun-Sanders bill is so important is because it makes this data available in a standardized format

We help make the rules for the country, and we do not do this by ourselves.

Last year, the Environment and Public Works Committee held, I think, not one, but a couple of hearings on permitting, common theme at our hearings, on the importance of public engagement.

Thanks so much.

We are better off when we hear community concerns at the beginning of the process rather than at the end.

I look forward to continuing to work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to get the Health Care Price Transparency Act 2.0 to the President's desk.

I believe that most of the carriers today do not have an incentive.

small employers will really benefit from access to tools and technology that can leverage that standardized formatting

We write asking you to support the bipartisan Senate Bill 3548, The Health Care PRICE Transparency Act 2.0, introduced by Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders and Committee member Senator Mike…

I do not know of one other industry where we have had to bring, at the federal government level, a transparency bill.