Donalds introduced his "Your Doctor, Your Price" plan aimed at lowering healthcare and insurance costs for Florida families.
Byron Donalds will pursue a plan to lower healthcare and insurance costs for Florida families.
Occurrences
Donalds outlined a comprehensive plan, Your Doctor, Your Price, to lower the everyday costs that continue to strain Florida families from healthcare expenses to insurance premiums.
Make Florida More Affordable: Florida is too expensive for many of our families and seniors. Byron will work to solve the property insurance crisis, lower housing costs, and make Florida affordable again.
So, our mission is work with us to actually repair this system, actually provide low-cost health insurance plans that people can afford with deductibles that they can pay for because they have the disposable cash, so they actually have access to the healthcare system as opposed to a piece of paper that doesn't do anything except cost you a ton of money.
Evidence
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Congressman Byron Donalds joined a House Oversight hearing titled “Lowering the Cost of Healthcare: Technology’s Role in Driving Affordability” to examine the main causes of rising healthcare costs and how medical technology innovations can help alleviate the problem.
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GovInfo records H.R. 6703, the Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act, as engrossed in the House on December 17, 2025.
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Donalds said the mission is to “actually provide low-cost health insurance plans that people can afford” and discussed healthcare reform as a way to reduce costs.
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Donalds’ issue page states that healthcare and insurance reforms should remove excessive costs and empower Americans, describing patient-based reforms and market-based approaches to lower costs.
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House floor remarks on healthcare referenced families being forced into junk plans, the cost of coverage for a family of four, and the need to protect healthcare and health insurance affordability.
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GovInfo records H.R. 7817, which lists Byron Donalds among the cosponsors and concerns health insurance policy.
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Donalds' official House healthcare issue page says healthcare tax benefits and incentives would substantially decrease costs, supports buying health insurance across state lines, and says patient-based reforms would remove excessive costs in healthcare and insurance.
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Donalds' office said he joined a House Oversight joint hearing titled "Lowering the Cost of Healthcare: Technology's Role in Driving Affordability" and discussed competition in healthcare as critical to delivering affordable care to consumers.
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The official committee hearing page lists the subject as "Lowering the Cost of Healthcare: Technology's Role in Driving Affordability," dated December 10, 2025, before the Economic Growth and Health Care subcommittees.
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GovInfo bill text lists Mr. Donalds among members introducing H.R. 7817, a bill amending the ACA to limit taxpayer funds for health insurance coverage to authorized individuals.
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GovInfo records H.R. 6703 as the House-engrossed Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act.
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House floor debate stated that Republicans had lowered Obamacare premiums, expanded health savings accounts, direct primary care, and telehealth, and that the Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act had passed and lowered premiums further.
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The Congressional Record shows H.R. 1834, the Breaking the Gridlock Act, passed 230-196 on Roll No. 11 after debate over ACA tax credits and premium costs; Donalds is listed among the nays.
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Donalds' campaign plan says every licensed Florida provider would post real prices, patients could see any licensed provider at the lowest posted rate, and the plan would reduce surprise bills and network lock-in.
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Donalds' campaign proposes an Insurer Scorecard combining price, claims, and insurer-performance data, including health, auto, and home insurance rate comparison, to increase transparency and continue reducing premiums for Florida families.
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Pursue regulatory reforms that lower insurance premiums.
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Require doctors and hospitals to post plain, guaranteed cash prices for the 50 most common medical tests and procedures.
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unveiled a six-point “Bring Down The Bill” insurance plan
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outlining proposals he said would lower homeowners insurance premiums, speed post-storm rebuilding and address health care costs
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approved significant rate decreases for homeowners, affecting over 62,000 policies
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out-of-pocket costs for ACA marketplace policy premiums increased by 58% for Floridians
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In an interview with CNN, Donalds explained his campaign plans to modernize permitting for building homes and to modernize insurance in hopes of cutting down costs for Florida residents.
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On Donalds’ campaign website, goals such as increased transparency in government spending, lowering taxes and cost transparency from health care providers are listed.
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Donalds opposes Jolly's proposal and has instead called for changes involving the existing Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund, including eliminating a surcharge that helps fund it.
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To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an above-the-line deduction for flood insurance premiums.
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September 22, 2026 | Posted in Press Releases WASHINGTON – Congressman Byron Donalds (R-FL) is leading the effort in the House to secure Florida as the permanent home for the newly established United States Space Academy through the introduction of the "Securing the Advancement of Rising Spacefarers (STARS) Act".
Assessments
Donalds has not shown full delivery of lower healthcare and insurance costs for Florida families: the strongest evidence is proposals, official issue advocacy, hearing participation, and related health-insurance legislation rather than an enacted Florida-family cost reduction. However, the promise was framed as pursuing a plan, and the record shows concrete same-term pursuit through official healthcare-affordability advocacy, participation in a House hearing on lowering healthcare costs, and support for related premium/insurance legislation. That supports partial credit rather than full delivery.
The promise is framed as pursuing a plan to lower healthcare and insurance costs, not guaranteeing that costs would actually be reduced. Evidence shows Donalds actively advocated for affordability reforms, participated in a congressional hearing focused on lowering healthcare costs, and was connected to health-policy legislation including H.R. 6703, the Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act, which passed the House. That constitutes meaningful pursuit of the promise. However, the record provided does not show a distinct Donalds-authored Florida-family cost-lowering plan being enacted or producing measurable lowered costs for Florida families. Because there is clear effort and some legislative movement but not full delivery of the promised result, partial is the best fit.