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Lower Costs.
More Competition.
Better Healthcare.
Conservatives for Lower Health Care Costs (CLHCC) advances free-market healthcare solutions that lower costs, expand consumer choice, and protect patients, families, employers, and taxpayers.
When competition works, healthcare costs come down. When government intervenes, choices shrink and costs rise.
Who we are
Our Mission
Conservatives for Lower Health Care Costs (CLHCC) believes healthcare works best when patients, families, employers, and consumers are empowered to make decisions, not government bureaucrats.
We support policies that:
We oppose policies that rely on government mandates, price controls, and restrictions on competition.
What We Believe
More competition leads to lower prices, better service, and more choices for patients and consumers
Choice matters
Healthcare decisions should be made by consumers and patients, not politicians, regulators, or special interests
Markets work, when government ‘allows’ them to, i.e., stays out of the way
Like other industries, healthcare markets function best when barriers to competition are removed and innovators can compete on value
Government mandates and price controls reduce access, limit choice, and increase costs for patients, consumers, employers, and taxpayers
What We’re For
Building on President Trump’s leadership to lower healthcare costs through competition, transparency, and consumer choice, CLHCC supports:
Federal Priorities
State Priorities
the choice facing healthcare
Two Competing Visions
The Socialist Approach
Some policymakers continue to pursue healthcare policies that:
The Conservative Approach
why competition matters
Free-market principles are not theoretical. They work every day throughout healthcare.
Competition creates incentives to lower costs, deliver better value, and improve services for patients and employers alike.
When policymakers restrict participation in the healthcare marketplace or impose new mandates, consumers face fewer choices and higher costs.
Healthcare should reward value, innovation, and performance, not government favoritism.
Case Study
Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) drive down prescription drug costs through the power of the free market. PBMs must deliver savings or employers & health plans would not hire them. Government dictating how a plan sponsor can design their benefits restricts employers & increases costs.
Policies undermining vertical integration are pushed by special interests to intentionally reduce competition and consumer choice by mandating forced pharmacy closures and reduced access to pharmacy options. Theses policies allow special interests to benefit, while everyone else pays the price.
Restricting participation in the marketplace = higher costs.
Emerging Threats
Misguided Policies to Watch
Across the country, some policymakers are advancing proposals, such as the James Talarico and Mark Cuban model that mandates terms of the private market, rewards special interests, restrict competition, and limit consumer choice.
James Talarico has made it clear he views such policies as steps toward a “Medicare for All” socialist system.
Instead of picking winners and losers, policymakers should focus on encouraging competition, innovation, and lower-cost alternatives.
These policies:
What’s Happening Now
Recent federal reforms have introduced significant new transparency and accountability requirements across the healthcare marketplace.
State policymakers should be cautious about imposing additional regulations that duplicate federal efforts, increase administrative burden, or make it harder for employers to offer affordable healthcare coverage.
Some states are pursuing policies that would force pharmacies to close based solely on who owns them.
Arkansas and Tennessee provide cautionary examples:
20+
Arkansas’s law could force the closure of more than 20 pharmacies
160+
Tennessee’s law could affect more than 160 retail, mail-order, and specialty pharmacies
These policies reduce patient access, limit pharmacy choice, and disrupt employer-sponsored prescription drug benefits.
Bottom Line: These misguided policies increase government involvement in the marketplace, reduce consumer choice and access, and fail to do anything to lower prescription drug costs.
Tell Policymakers to Put Competition First and Reject Misguided Government Mandates that Undermine Competition and Hike Costs.
Americans deserve healthcare policies that increase choice, encourage innovation, and lower costs. Together, we can promote market-based reforms that help patients, protect employers, and strengthen our healthcare system.