Americans for Prosperity is launching a digital ad campaign this week and prodding Congress for action on site-neutral Medicare payments and telehealth extension and other priorities, according to details first provided to Victoria.
Why it matters: This Koch-backed effort adds to the calls for action from advocacy groups ahead of a lame duck session — especially on those policy matters that have generated bipartisan support.
Zoom in: AFP is urging congressional leaders in a letter "to act on these issues this year, and if necessary, to include them in a reconciliation bill in the next Congress."
- The group backs strengthening health savings accounts, expanding access to direct primary care, making telehealth options permanent and enacting site-neutral overhauls that it says would promote competition and "honest billing."
- "By shifting power to patients rather than systems, these incremental and largely bipartisan reforms give patients more options, promote competition, and increase access," the letter says.
AFP is also advocating for a "personal option" health care plan, long a priority of GOP-aligned groups.
- That could take the form of expanded health savings accounts or allowing insurance-free direct primary care plans, the group says.
- Groups that signed the letter include Americans for Tax Reform, Better Solutions for Healthcare and Patients Rising.
