Healthcare

Starting in the mid-2000s, big hospital chains figured out how to supercharge the program.

I support the 340B program, and I want to see it succeed.

I have seen the price of insulin go up from about $40 a bottle to north of 300 now.

The Hospital Price Transparency Final Rule is a step in the right direction to improve transparency in healthcare prices.

The current healthcare system is gobbledygook.

Nobody--Democrat, Republican, independent, anybody--should be harmed by medical expenses.

The 340B drug-pricing program was created in 1992 and aimed at enabling certain healthcare providers known as covered entities--and this is a quote--to stretch scarce Federal resources to reach more eligible patients or provide more…

Myself and many other individuals warned that prices would go up, that premiums would go up with the passage of the Affordable Care Act

Shining a light on middlemen who are making prescriptions more expensive is one important step to bolster competition.

It is imperative for the Biden administration to conduct greater enforcement efforts on these rules to better serve patients.

I hope today can be a start on finding bipartisan solutions to make healthcare pricing more transparent.

I have a bill with Henry Cuellar of Laredo. It is a bipartisan bill to repeal the ban on physician-owned hospitals.

I think that insurers need to negotiate prices to lower hospital costs.

We need to continue to expand coverage and make healthcare more affordable and accessible for all Americans.

The average family is saving $2,400 in premiums a year, thanks to the ACA enhancements we made over the last 2 years.

By working together across the aisle, I am hoping we can make important strides to make the healthcare system easier for patients.

Patients rely on supports like the 340B program, which provides discounts on essential prescription drugs to vulnerable communities.

As my colleagues on both sides of the aisle have stated, healthcare costs are unaffordable for literally millions of Americans.