It’s time to modernize outdated laws that prevent tech entrepreneurs from improving patient care.
Health Care
Americans deserve a health care system that provides universal—and universally affordable—coverage for today’s Americans, and a fiscally sustainable system for the generations to come. All Americans should have the freedom to choose among a wide variety of plans that suit their needs. Taxpayer-funded subsidies should be reserved for the poor, the sick and the vulnerable—not the wealthy. Enabling competition and curtailing the power of health care monopolies will lower patients’ costs and increase innovation in patient care.
All Health Care
Medicare plans run by private insurers have lower premiums, broader benefits, and better health outcomes.
Hospital monopolies oppose competition because it will curtail their ability to charge unaffordable rates.
Reversing a decades-long trend towards hospital consolidation will reduce health costs for patients.
Market-based policies from countries like Denmark and Singapore can make medicines more affordable in the U.S.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s new proposal fails to think through why there are generic drug shortages in the first place.
The Affordable Care Act’s health insurance tax, or HIT, makes coverage less affordable.
Pharmacy benefit managers and wholesalers have an obscure, but important, role in reducing the price of prescription medicines.