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11.09.2026 / Press Release

As Congress’ Lame Duck Session Starts, More than 100 Groups Urge Congress to Pass Health Care Price Transparency Before Year’s End

Passing These Pending, Vetted, Bipartisan Bills Would Be a Foundational First Step to Address Voter Demand for Action on Health Care Affordability

Washington, D.C. – As Congress returns to Capitol Hill today, less than a week after a historic midterm election, more than 100 organizations are calling on Congress to act on bipartisan measures to strengthen health care price transparency and help lower costs in the year-end legislative package.

In a letter to Congressional leaders, a broad range of organizations representing families, workers, doctors, employers, patients and consumers across the country urged Congress to enact meaningful hospital and insurer price transparency policies. These bipartisan bills have already been vetted and passed through committees, and the lame duck session is the last chance to pass them before the end of the 119th Congress.

“Consumers are begging Congress to stand up for them — not big health care corporations — and to do all you can to finally deliver on your promises to lower costs and improve health care. Improved price transparency is a key piece to solving the affordability puzzle: you cannot appropriately shop for, negotiate, or regulate what you cannot see. Bringing prices into the open is a fundamental step toward controlling health care costs and creating a more equitable and sustainable system,” wrote the organizations in the letter. 

Affordability, especially the high cost of health care, drove last week’s midterm election results.

“American voters were loud and clear that they want immediate action on affordability, and especially health care costs. Leaders in Washington should not wait until January to act on hospital prices when pending proposals are vetted and primed for passage. This summer, Congress built bipartisan momentum on bills to advance hospital and insurer price transparency, and their passage would be foundational first steps to any affordability agenda in the future,” said Families USA executive director Anthony Wright.