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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.
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Prices negotiated on the program’s first 10 drugs produced significant Medicare savings with little impact on future drug development.
The program has become a revenue-generating tool for hospitals rather than a mechanism to support low-income Americans
Exorbitant drug prices burden American patients and taxpayers in an unfree market
Republicans could save $159 billion by replacing Obamacare's Medicaid expansion with exchange-based coverage.
The PREVAIL Act would unnecessarily delay cheaper drugs from entering the market