Now, as Louisiana’s U.S. senator, my mission is to lower the cost and improve the quality of health care to ensure every Louisianan can have affordable coverage.
Lower the cost and improve the quality of health care.
Occurrences
Bill is fighting to lower the cost of health care and ensuring Louisianans can choose the doctor and care that’s best for their families.
Evidence
"I am working to increase price transparency and create more competition to lower health care costs and prescription drug prices."
"The only thing doctors and patients should be focused on is providing and receiving the best care, not worrying about added costs associated with electronic payment methods."
"We should spend money making people healthy, not on administrative waste," said Dr. Cassidy. "We need to lower health care costs for American families and this bill is an important step."
Short Title: Patient Right to Know Drug Prices Act. Full Title: An Act To ensure that health insurance issuers and group health plans do not prohibit pharmacy providers from providing certain information to enrollees.
The bill "would require an independent organization outside of the government to conduct a study to assess the quality of care veterans receive for mental and addiction health treatment."
The Senate Health Committee passed the Lower Health Care Costs Act, which includes "14 separate provisions authored or led by Cassidy to lower the cost of prescription drugs, protect patients from surprise medical bills, increase price transparency in health care, improve public health, and protect the private data of patients."
Assessments
The promise was broad: lower costs and improve quality across health care. Cassidy took concrete Senate action toward that goal, including health-cost, transparency, administrative-waste, and quality-related legislation. Most importantly, the Patient Right to Know Drug Prices Act became law in 2018 during his first Senate term, giving him partial credit for delivering a component of the cost/transparency agenda. However, the evidence does not show that the overall health care system became lower-cost and higher-quality as promised, and several later efforts were introduced bills or committee advances rather than final enacted outcomes. This supports partial fulfillment, not full delivery.