HEALTH CARE PLAN COSTS

GET SPENDING UNDER CONTROL

Establish a long-term global budget for total health care spending.

Encourage insurers to explore value-based insurance design in order to minimize overuse without discouraging necessary care.

Allow Americans to legally access lower-cost prescription drugs from Canada, including biologics and insulin.

Give Medicare the ability to negotiate prices with drug companies, but not the power to determine the drugs it must provide by law.

Modernize the 340B Drug Pricing Program, which effectively raises costs for patients and Medicare.

Encourage competition among drug manufacturers. Do not allow monopolistic pricing beyond what patent/exclusivity sets forth.

Do not allow drug manufacturers to offer financial assistance to persuade a patient to buy their product unless a generic version is not available.

Reverse Donald Trump's executive order requiring price transparency. It allows collusion to happen in plain sight.

Retain the Cadillac health insurance tax, which is instrumental in funding the ACA and keeping health care costs down.

Protect consumers from unfair balance billing. Encourage states to limit hospital prices for out-of-network emergency care.

Protect consumers from unfair balance billing in regard to air ambulances, helicopters, and ambulances that travel by road.

Instruct the Federal Trade Commission to crack down on monopoly providers in local health care markets.

Support public-private initiatives that develop superior drugs, vaccines and diagnostic tests.

Support tech firms that are working on innovative ways to deliver medical care to patients.