For Immediate Release:
Contact: Kelly Broadway, 202-808-8853
[email protected]
Washington, D.C. – Ahead of President Trump’s State of the Union address, the Council for Affordable Health Coverage (CAHC) urges a focus on patient-centered reforms that lower health care costs through transparency and competition. These include:
- Put patients – not corporations – at the center of health reform. For too long, massive insurance companies and health systems have restricted choice and inflated prices in communities across the country. Breaking these companies up will increase choice, competition, and drive down costs.
- Reduce bureaucratic barriers to direct-to-patient drug discounts. If a patient finds a better price and pays cash, through platforms like TrumpRx or similar tools, those purchases should count toward their insurance out-of-pocket obligations. No one should be penalized for securing a better deal. Solutions like TrumpRx demonstrate how bringing real price transparency to the prescription drug market can empower consumers, increase competition, and drive down costs. TrumpRx allows people to make the best decisions for themselves and their families while putting meaningful downward pressure on costs.
- Avoid prescription drug policies that create or codify failed socialist price controls. Government price-setting schemes should be wholly rejected. Whether it is the so-called Inflation Reduction Act, contrived “demonstration projects”, or Most Favored Nation pricing, the results are the same – stifled competition, fewer high-paying jobs, reduced access, and ultimately increased health care costs. Sustainable affordability will come from empowering patients and strengthening markets, not from imposing top-down controls.
- Create real choice in coverage for patients and small businesses. Expand the use of HSAs for patients to have more control over their health care dollars, so they can keep them no matter their insurer. Give small businesses and their employees access to more private sector options like Association Health Plans, and the unfettered ability to self-insure, so we avoid having more employees forced into government-run health care.
Americans deserve a transparent, competitive health care system that works for them. We look forward to hearing the President outline a path forward that advances those principles.