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Bill Cassidy

17:33 - 18:28

"The Patients Deserve Price Tags Act, championed by Senators Marshall and Hickenlooper, will make pricing information more easily available, empowering patients to compare prices and to pick the highest quality affordable option for care."

“The Patients Deserve Price Tags Act, championed by Senators Marshall and Hickenlooper, will make pricing information more easily available, empowering patients to compare prices and to pick the highest quality affordable option for care.”
Speaker
Bill Cassidy
Timestamp
17:33 – 18:28
Source
Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (Murkowski): Business meeting to consider S.2355, to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for hospital and insurer price transparency, S.4189, to reduce the price of insulin and provide for patient protections with respect to the cost of insulin, S.4974, to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to food safety, S.5026, to require warning labels on sugar-sweetened foods and beverages, foods and beverages containing high-intensity sweeteners, ultra-processed foods, and foods high in nutrients of concern, such as added sugar, saturated fat, or sodium, to restrict junk food advertising to children, S.1414, to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide that clinical studies required for licensure of biological products as biosimilar shall not be required to include the assessment of immunogenicity, pharmacodynamics, or comparative clinical efficacy, S.3788, to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require drug labeling to include original manufacturer and supply chain information, S.3794, to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to further regulate compounding pharmacies and outsourcing facilities, S.494, to establish a national plan to coordinate research on epilepsy, S.4110, to revise and extend health workforce programs under title VII of the Public Health Service Act, S.1874, to amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize certain nursing workforce development programs, and S.380, to improve obstetric emergency care.
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Alaska News
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July 22, 2026

From the transcript

The bills we are voting on will help families access affordable, quality healthcare. The Patients Deserve Price Tags Act, championed by Senators Marshall and Hickenlooper, will make pricing information more easily available, empowering patients to compare prices and to pick the highest quality affordable option for care. So a mother, say for example Lafayette, Louisiana, has a child with an earache, pulls out her phone and says, search 'urgent care center near me, which one has the best price?' And then she could go to that one, she could go to that one and save her the money that can be quite substantial because we've made this information available. The bill also gives employers access to their data, allowing them to develop innovative plan designs driving down cost and benefiting employees. The legislation is so important and something I've been touting as part of my money and value for patients or the MVP agenda to lower costs for health insurance for families.

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