Healthcare everyone can afford.

Everyone should have access to high-quality healthcare.

And everyone should be able to afford it.

This isn’t political. It’s just a fact: no American should go bankrupt or get sick because they don’t have healthcare coverage.

The problem is, healthcare costs are rising far faster than the cost of living.

We need to make healthcare cheaper.

The good news is, we already know how: pharmacy distribution reform, digitizing health records, tying pay to outcomes, and reducing drug prices can save around 20% in total healthcare costs.

The problem is making sure reforms get implemented and, more importantly, that prices don’t just rise again in a few years.

The industry needs to go on a budget.

We need a national Office of Health Care Affordability that can put the healthcare industry on a budget: to make sure their costs grow at (or below) the rate of inflation, and no more.

We know this can work because it’s working already: California created its own Office of Health Care Affordability in 2022. In 2024 they set a 3% annual cost growth cap for the healthcare industry, particularly targeting high-cost hospitals and health plans. Now they’ve started to enforce it, with public meetings and, soon, penalties for non-compliance.

It’s early, but they’re making real progress. We as a nation could do the same.

We know it won’t be easy.

But we’re simply asking the healthcare industry to do what every American family does: figure out how to make ends meet with a modest increase in pay.

If we can do it, so can they.