CAHC sent a letter to Congress urging them to enact bipartisan policies that decrease healthcare costs and advance common-sense reforms.
CAHC specifically asked that any budget deal to include the following:
- Provisions that redesign the Part D benefit
- Inclusion of Value-Based Payment Arrangements for prescription drugs
- Reforms to bring more drugs to market to increase price competition
- Policies that reduce medical service costs
- Tax credits and reinsurance that supports small businesses and job-based coverage
- Indexing the affordability threshold to inflation as under current law
- Flexibility to allow individuals to use subsidies in a plan that best meets their needs, including account-based plans