Health Care
House Democrats are committed to expanding access to quality, affordable health care coverage, strengthening protections for people with pre-existing conditions, and lowering prescription drug prices and the cost of health care overall.
Under President Biden and Congressional Democrats, the uninsured rate is at an all-time low. While Republicans vote against legislation to lower health care costs, House Democrats are working to bring down the overall costs of health care and increase access to health care coverage.
With the landmark Inflation Reduction Act, House Democrats took direct action to reduce health care costs for millions of Americans. For the first time, Medicare will be able to negotiate prescription drug prices for high-cost drugs. The law also caps out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for Medicare recipients at $2,000 annually and establishes a $35 cap for a month’s supply of insulin. The Inflation Reduction Act also protects progress made under President Biden to expand access to quality, affordable health care coverage by continuing the expanded premium tax credits originally passed in the American Rescue Plan, which lowered health care premiums for millions of working families.
This built upon the Affordable Care Act – enacted by President Obama and Congressional Democrats in 2010 – that has put American families in control of their own health care and ended a system that put profits ahead of patients. Since its enactment, 35 million Americans have gained access to quality, affordable health coverage. Americans with pre-existing conditions can no longer be discriminated against by insurance companies. Parents can now keep their children on their insurance plans up to age twenty-six. Insurance companies are no longer allowed to put annual or lifetime limits on coverage or drop people when they get sick. Additionally, thanks to the law, Medicare costs – from premiums and deductibles to overall program spending – have slowed to well below the levels projected before the law passed.
These reforms were crucial, especially when the COVID-19 pandemic struck but more action was needed. That’s why House Democrats worked to enact legislation right away - without any Republican support - to ensure that testing, treatment, and vaccinations for COVID-19 would be covered with no out-of-pocket costs to Americans.
House Democrats remain committed to the goal of affordable, accessible health care for all.
Thank you, Leader. As the Leader said, the American people spoke and many Members of the Senate listened, and what they heard from the American people was that this bill was not a bill that they thought would help themselves, or their families, or their country, or their neighbors.
Wanted to be sure you saw this video on how the Senate #TrumpCare bill fails the “Jimmy Kimmel test,” which Kimmel defines as being: “No family should be denied medical care, emergency or otherwise, because they can’t afford it." TrumpCare doesn’t even come close. Watch the video on Mr.
Yesterday, the Congressional Budget Office confirmed that the Senate TrumpCare bill is just as harmful as the House bill and fails the Jimmy Kimmel test
Delaying the Senate’s dangerous TrumpCare bill isn’t enough.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has now confirmed what we already know: Senate Republicans’ version of TrumpCare will do just as much harm to health care in our country as the House Republican version that even President Trump called ‘mean.’
Yet another organization is coming out in opposition to TrumpCare. The American Medical Association is joining dozens of hospitals, medical providers, faith organizations, and others to urge Senate Republicans to abandon TrumpCare.
Governors across the country are in agreement: Republicans should not vote on TrumpCare this week. Below is a letter from the National Governors Association, signed by Democratic and Republicans governors, urging Senate Majority Leader McConnell to delay the TrumpCare vote and give Americans the opportunity to review this legislation. Full text of the letter can be seen here and attached:
After weeks of secretly drafting the TrumpCare bill behind closed doors, Senate Republicans released their TrumpCare bill yesterday.
After weeks of secretly drafting their TrumpCare bill behind closed doors, Senate Republicans released their bill yesterday.
Some news outlets are erroneously reporting that the Senate TrumpCare bill protects Americans with pre-existing conditions – it does not.