MedPage Today December 10, 2025
Congress is ‘failing’ to rein in healthcare costs, says subcommittee member
A House hearing Wednesday on the topic of how technology can help lower healthcare costs was sidetracked almost immediately by partisan politics.
“Healthcare costs of the United States have long been on the rise, but recent Democrat policies and the radical Biden administration’s regulatory agenda have made healthcare costs in America even worse,” Rep. Eric Burlison (R-Mo.), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs, said in his opening statement.
He said that technologies like telehealth and artificial intelligence (AI) “are revolutionary, but if innovators cannot afford to develop more of them because of the expensive barriers put in place...
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