Families USA Action Launches Six-Figure Ad Campaign to Urge Congress to Lower Health Care Costs by End of Year

11.14.2024 /Press Release

Families USA Action Launches Six-Figure Ad Campaign to Urge Congress to Lower Health Care Costs by End of Year

WASHINGTON, D.C. - As Congress returns for its lame duck session, Families USA Action has launched a $100,000 ad campaign to urge Congress to take immediate action to pass reforms that will lower health care costs and improve health care price transparency, including a "same service, same price" policy that will protect patients from being charged more based solely on where they receive care.

"Congress should take the opportunity now, before the end of the year, to pass bipartisan reforms that will protect patients from being charged more and bring more transparency to hospital pricing. Together, we can stop big hospital corporations from their price-gouging practices, including, taking over doctors' offices and shifting services so they can charge more for the same care," said Anthony Wright, executive director of Families USA Action. "Americans have just made clear that affordability and economic stability is top of mind for them, so now is the time for Congress to stand up and lower health care costs for our nation's families."

Families USA, the leading health care consumer advocacy group and sister organization of Families USA Action, led nearly 60 organizations in joining the call to urge Congress to pass legislation to lower health care costs and improve transparency in a letter sent today to Congressional leadership. The letter is available here.

The Same Service, Same Price ad campaign launched this week features the story of Ben Los, of Monument, CO, who received a huge hospital bill because his son received an EEG in a hospital setting, rather than a standalone clinic. Ben's story is available to view here.

Also referred to as site neutral payment policy, a same service, same price reform was passed by the House of Representatives as part of the Lower Costs, More Transparency Act in December 2023. The Senate has yet to act on this legislation but is likely to include health care reforms from it in their year-end funding bill.