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Hello partners,
Consumers for Fair Hospital Pricing , a coalition representing families, individuals, and health care consumers, is calling on Congress to pass pro-consumer policies that make hospital care more affordable, higher quality, more transparent, and more consumer-friendly for our nation’s families.
After launching [[link removed]] last fall as a united consumer movement determined to take on the abusive prices of big hospital corporations – a major driver of our nation’s health care affordability crisis — CFFHP’s member organizations have developed a key set of legislative priorities [[link removed]] that are critical to ensuring that everyone can get the high-quality care they deserve at a price they can afford.
The coalition’s member organizations are Colorado Consumer Health Initiative, Families USA, Health Access California, Pennsylvania Health Access Network, Public Citizen, and U.S. PIRG.
Building off the coalition’s three overarching policy goals [[link removed]] to end hospital price-gouging, fix health care market failures, and increase transparency, these legislative priorities include critical reforms such as codifying and strengthening the Hospital Price Transparency rule, enacting comprehensive site neutral payments and honest billing reforms, and ending anti-competitive contracting practices.
CFFHP is releasing its legislative priorities just as millions of voters – many of whom are struggling with medical debt or high and rising health care costs – will head to the polls this November. The coalition joins a growing chorus of organizations calling on Congress to take decisive action right now to lower health care costs and put the needs of patients and families before the greed of big health care corporations.
Earlier this month [[link removed]] , nearly 50 organizations representing consumers, workers, employers, and providers called on the Senate Finance Committee to hold a hearing on key health care affordability solutions before the August Congressional recess. Now is the time for policymakers to advance changes that rein in the harmful business practices of hospitals and large hospital systems and bring down the skyrocketing prices of hospital care.
To learn how you can get involved, please contact Families USA’s Strategic Partnerships Campaign Manager Mike Persley, at [email protected] .
Thank you,
Jamie Stevenson
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