Healthcare costs are growing at an unsustainable rate as a result of rising prices for prescription drugs and medical services, provider consolidation, patients receiving care in inappropriate, higher cost settings, and waste, fraud and abuse.

Examples of this include:

• Hospitals charging over $1,800 for ear piercings or needlessly discarding unused medical supplies ¹
• An emergency room charging a father $629 for his daughter to receive a Band-Aid ²
• The price of EpiPens going up more than 500 percent from $94 in 2007 to $608 last year ³
• Americans pay higher prices than other countries but do not have better health outcomes ⁴

Our country’s rising cost-of-care is getting uncontrollably out of hand. It’s time we demand more from our healthcare system and work together to find real solutions that lower healthcare costs for all Americans.

 

^{FOOTNOTES:
[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/a-hospital-charged-to-pierce-ears-why-health-care-costs-so-much and https://www.propublica.org/article/what-hospitals-waste
[2] https://www.vox.com/2016/5/13/11606760/emergency-facility-fees-american-health-care
[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/04/business/angry-about-epipen-prices-executive-dont-care-much.html
[4] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2674671}