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Cloture
This is American healthcare.
It looks fine, right?
Everyone’s on board. You, your doctors, your family.
But below the waterline, the money is pouring out.
$1 trillion a year.
That’s what America spends on healthcare paperwork.
Not on doctors. Not on medicine. Not on research. Just on paperwork.
That’s more than the budget of half the states in America combined.
It’s easy to get lost in the weeds when it comes to healthcare.
It comes down to two views.
Healthcare is a right. In a country this wealthy, everyone should have access.
Healthcare needs competition. That’s what keeps quality high and drives innovation.
But we can all agree on:
Americans deserve access to good, affordable healthcare.
We don’t have to agree on where we’re going.
We just have to stop the ship from sinking.
These aren’t left or right positions.
This is what Americans actually want.
Why can’t Congress get any of this done?
Let’s look at an example.
United States Congress
H.R. 3 — Lower Drug Costs Now Act
Would have let Medicare negotiate prices on 250 common drugs per year. It was projected to save Americans $456 billion over a decade. Supported by 83-90% of Americans, including 71% of Republicans.
Read the full bill yourself →There were objections. A bipartisan alternative addressed every one. It still would have saved Americans almost $100 billion.
Republicans let the bill die quietly. Democrats gutted what was left.
The details matter.
The Constitution is clear: if a bill passes the House, the Senate votes on it.
In the 1930s, senators decided their careers came first. They created rules that let popular bills die without anyone ever having to vote against them.
They turned the Senate into a stage. 100 senators win. 330 million Americans lose.
This is what happened to the Lower Drug Costs Now Act. Democrats pushed it through the House in 2019. The Republican Senate never held a vote on it. It died quietly.
But then the Democrats won the House, the Senate, and the White House.
95% of Democratic voters supported the bill.
They had been taking the stage to fight for it for years.
It felt inevitable.
Four Democrats betrayed their voters and gutted the bill.
250 drugs became 10.
All Americans became just Medicare.
Why?
Why do the people we elected keep killing the things we agree on?
Partly, it’s politics. Getting nothing done beats letting the other side win.
But the real reason?
Our congressmen were paid not to.
Two of the four Democrats who gutted the bill now lobby for drug companies. Another took pharma money the day he voted against it.
The healthcare industry spends $744 million lobbying Congress every year.
Insurance
$1T+ revenue. They process paperwork, not patients.
PBMs
Three companies control 80% of drug pricing.
Hospitals
Regional monopolies. No competition. Higher prices.
Pharma
Same pill costs 2-10x more here. More spent on marketing than research.
They earn $491 billion in annual profit.
Our congressmen cost them less than a penny on the dollar.
It’s the world’s greatest annual investment.
Democrat, Republican... it doesn’t matter.
Almost every senator already takes their money.
The fight you see on TV is the show.
The deal was done before it started.
Americans die every day because our congressmen are paid to look the other way.
Every day we fight each other, they win.
Let’s beat them.
Not the other side.
But the people who profit from the paperwork, the price gouging, and the inaction.
Let’s start with something we all agree on.
United States Congress
Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act
It cuts the insurance paperwork standing between you and your doctor. Passed the House unanimously. Costs nothing. They’ve let it die four times over the last seven years. It’s back up for a vote again.
Read the full bill yourself →Senators don’t hand out their emails.
We found them anyway.
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