Healthcare Reform

As Healthcare Affordability Tops Voter Concerns, AFPI Releases Healthcare Policy Series Focused on Returning Healthcare Dollars to Americans

Today, the America First Policy Institute (AFPI), released a series of five policy papers explaining how the policies in the President’s Great Healthcare Plan will return choice to Americans when it comes to their healthcare dollars. The policy series, titled “It’s Your Money: Making Your Health Dollar Work For You, The Patient,” unpacks the proposals from President Trump’s Great Healthcare Plan and how they will empower patients with greater control over their healthcare dollars, expand innovative care options, improve price transparency, and reduce barriers that drive up costs.

It’s Your Money: Making Your Health Dollar Work for You, the Patient | Patients First, not last (Pt V)

The patients-first focus of the Great Healthcare Plan started under the first Trump Administration. Patients-first policymakers required hospitals and health plans to publish negotiated rates, out-of-pocket estimates, and other key cost information in both machine-readable and consumer-friendly formats. Patients and their clinicians were given practical tools to compare options before care is delivered, not after the bill arrives.

It’s Your Money: Making Your Health Dollar Work For You, The Patient | Demand Your Prices (Pt IV)

Patients in one of the richest, most technologically advanced countries in the history of the world should not be told that it is not possible to get an accurate estimate for an item or service prior to receiving it. Healthcare purchasers, such as employers, should not be contractually prohibited from knowing the costs of items and services they purchase for their employees. Yet both occur in the current healthcare system (America First Policy Institute, 2026).

It’s Your Money: Making Your Health Dollar Work for You, The Patient | One Size Fits Nobody (Pt III)

It’s Your MONEY: Making Your Health Dollar Work For You, The Patient | Paying People, Not Plans (Pt II)

Any reforms to the health insurance system must focus on driving increased value for patients. Increased value does not solely mean increased costs or more complicated care; instead, it is about the overall value of the health plan as determined by patients.