Lower the cost and improve the quality of health care.

Bill Cassidy · Louisiana · Republican

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Occurrences

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.

Commits to health care affordability and quality improvements.

Issues | Dr. Bill Cassidy for U.S. Senate
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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.

Commits to lowering health care costs and preserving patient choice in care.

About | Dr. Bill Cassidy for U.S. Senate
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Evidence

"I am working to increase price transparency and create more competition to lower health care costs and prescription drug prices."

Cassidy’s official Senate issues page states his active goal is to lower health care costs through price transparency and competition, which matches the campaign promise but does not itself prove fulfillment.

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Lowering the Cost of Health Care | U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy
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"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."

Cassidy introduced legislation aimed at reducing unnecessary health care costs for patients and providers, showing concrete action toward the promise.

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Cassidy, Cantwell Introduce Legislation to Protect Patients, Health Care Providers Against Unnecessary Electronic Fees
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"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."

Cassidy advanced a bill explicitly designed to reduce administrative health care costs, supporting partial fulfillment through concrete legislative effort.

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Cassidy, Smith Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Cut Wasteful Health Care Costs
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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.

This enacted law, tied to Cassidy’s prescription-price transparency work, is direct official evidence that at least part of his health-cost agenda became law.

partial later_term A for effort

S. 2554 (ENR) - Patient Right to Know Drug Prices Act | GovInfo
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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."

Cassidy continued to pursue quality-improvement legislation later in his Senate career, but this is still only an introduced bill, not proof of fulfillment.

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Cassidy, Cornyn, Colleagues Introduce Bill to Ensure Veterans’ Access to High-Quality Mental Health Care
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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."

Committee passage shows Cassidy’s health-cost agenda advanced concretely, but the cited legislation was not itself final proof of a fully delivered campaign promise.

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Cassidy Legislation to Reduce Health Care Costs Passes Committee
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Assessments

partial same_term A for effort

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.

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