For Immediate Release
June 24, 2026
Center for Healthcare Affordability Releases Quarterly Update on New Healthcare Bills Introduced in Congress
New CHA Tracker update highlights federal legislation that would improve – or worsen – healthcare affordability for American families.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Center for Healthcare Affordability, a project of the Institute for Legislative Analysis, today released its quarterly report on healthcare legislation introduced in the U.S. Congress.
All significant federal healthcare legislation is housed in CHA's Healthcare Affordability Tracker, the first and only database collecting active healthcare legislation while also ranking the actions of all 535 Members of Congress to improve healthcare affordability.
The tracker and rankings are based on a policy framework built from the research of more than a dozen leading healthcare policy institutions and hundreds of research papers examining the best ways to address the top five greatest affordability challenges: skyrocketing insurance premiums, rising medical treatment costs, shrinking competition among providers, stagnating advancements in healthcare, and exploding government spending.
Top Five New Bills - Improving Healthcare Affordability:
#1 (S. 4583) Legalizing Premium Health Care Act
Restoring Medicare patient choice by allowing seniors to use their benefits with the doctor they choose.
#2 (H.R. 8293) Abolish the CMMI Act
Eliminating the CMMI program that wastes taxpayer dollars and distorts healthcare markets.
#3 (H.R. 9081) Healthcare Freedom and Fairness Act
Allowing small businesses and independent workers to pool together for more affordable health coverage.
#4 (H.R. 8324) Great American Healthcare Plan
Expanding HSAs, price transparency, and marketplace competition to lower healthcare costs.
#5 (S. 4519) Medical Device Electronic Labeling Act
Reducing outdated FDA labeling burdens by allowing electronic instructions for medical devices.
Top Five New Bills - Worsening Healthcare Affordability:
#1 (H.R. 8716) Blood Pressure MATTERS Act
Increasing health insurance premiums by mandating no-cost coverage for blood pressure monitoring devices.
#2 (H.R. 7837) Most Favored Patient Act
Threatening drug innovation by imposing price controls based on foreign government pricing schemes.
#3 (H.R. 8907) IMPACT to Save Moms Act
Fueling out-of-control Medicaid spending through a new CMS maternity care payment experiment.
#4 (H.R. 8839) Lainie Jones Comprehensive Cancer Survivorship Act
Worsening government dependency and deficit spending through new Medicare, Medicaid, and cancer programs.
#5 (S. 4552) Moms Matter Act
Growing bureaucracy and federal deficit spending through another maternal health grant program.
View all bills and detailed policy analyses at ReformHealthcare.org.
The Center for Healthcare Affordability is a project of the Institute for Legislative Analysis, a national public policy research organization and home to the most expansive dataset of lawmaker ideology on the U.S. Congress.
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