Health system CEOs face affordability questions from Congress| STAT

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The 4 well being system CEOs summoned earlier than a Congressional committee Tuesday seemingly breathed sighs of reduction early within the listening to, when it turned clear that they had mates within the viewers. 

As a substitute, committee members largely blamed the opposite get together’s well being care insurance policies for driving U.S. well being care costs to ranges inaccessible to many People.

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The listening to was a part of the Home Methods and Means Committee’s effort to grasp the basis causes of rising well being care prices within the U.S. It comes three months after the committee heard from the CEOs of the nation’s largest well being insurers, who largely deflected blame onto hospitals and drugmakers. 

In attendance have been the CEOs of among the nation’s largest well being techniques: HCA Healthcare, a for-profit system of 190 hospitals, and CommonSpirit Well being, a nonprofit system of 158 hospitals. The CEOs of New York-Presbyterian and North Carolina’s ECU Well being have been additionally there.