Council for Affordable Health Coverage

Multi-billion-dollar "non-profit" health systems continue to grow, buying up other non-profits and for-profit hospitals to maximize 340B discounts. How much is actually going to charity care? realclearhealth.com/articles/2026/…

Hospital and insurance monopolies are driving up #healthcare costs. Instead of punishing them, the ACA rewards this behavior.

Hospital systems keep getting bigger, crushing competition and sticking families with higher bills. The @WaysandMeansGOP hearing exposed it: hospitals defended abusive fees while patients pay the price. More consolidation means more pain for patients bit.ly/4tIZisJ

Your salary is being outpaced by #healthcare premiums. In 6 years, you could be spending 40% of your income on premiums. This is insanity that must be stopped!

Thanks for following along as @jwhite_health, Wendy Barnes @GoodRx and Phil Kerpen @Comm4Prosperity discussed how Congress can make #healthcare more affordable!!

It’s important to have price transparency AND choice where you get your prescriptions filled. - Wendy Barnes @GoodRx

Over one billion prescriptions are not filled annually; the reason? 90% of the time, the reason is cost.

We don’t have free markets, we have subsidized demand. Prices are opaque, quality is opaque. @jwhite_health

Who do voters blame for rising health costs? @Comm4Prosperity polling found (in order): large health #insurance companies, #Congress, drug developers, #hospitals, #PBMs

Americans are paying more for healthcare and getting less in return. Costs are rising faster than wages and inflation, putting pressure on families, employers, and taxpayers. #Affordability should be the center of #healthcare reform

#Healthcare monopolies have become a spider web of market power. "Non profit" health systems continue to build their tax-free empires contributing little to charity. Employers and patients are stuck in a web, with fewer choices and higher costs.

Recent polling by @Comm4Prosperity found 71% of voters have seen their healthcare costs rise since passage of the ACA, regardless of plan type (ACA, employer-provider or other).

Transparency in hospital, insurance, and prescription drug costs is vital in addressing and lowering healthcare costs.

Real affordability means lowering the cost of care, not just shifting the bill. Congress should expand patient choice, protect competition, support small business coverage, and stop policies that make healthcare more expensive

Hospital spending reached $1.7 trillion in 2024. Physician and clinical spending reached $1.1 trillion. If Congress wants to lower premiums, it has to address the cost of care where most healthcare dollars are actually going.

8 in 10 hospitals are now part of a consolidated system, and those systems control 93 percent of acute care beds.  @TheJusticeDept @FTC @RepublicanAGs @DemocraticAGs should stop the $26 billion Sutter Health/Allina Health merger. bit.ly/3R5hez4

97% of inpatient hospital markets are highly uncompetitive. That matters for every family paying premiums, deductibles, co-pays, and facility fees. Less competition means higher costs and fewer choices

Hospitals have consolidated into powerful regional systems. Insurers have bought PBMs, pharmacies, clinics, and physician groups. Many Americans technically have choices, but those choices are often controlled by a few large organizations.

Too often, federal rules reward size instead of value. Large insurers and hospital systems can absorb complex mandates and compliance costs. Smaller plans, independent practices, and community providers often cannot.