WASHINGTON, D.C. – In case you missed it, Senator Rick Scott wrote an op-ed for Modern Healthcare on his efforts to make healthcare more affordable for families across the nation.

In the op-ed, Senator Rick Scott wrote, “My experience growing up has shaped everything I’ve done in my life and how I think about the world—especially when it comes to issues like providing quality healthcare that families can afford. And at the end of the day, the best way to ensure access to quality healthcare for a family is to have access to good jobs.

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Beyond that, there are some commonsense things we can and should get done right now to start bringing down healthcare costs. 

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To help reduce the burden of high drug prices, Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and I have a proposal that would prohibit pharmaceutical companies that use federal tax dollars to develop their drugs from charging American consumers unreasonable prices for those same drugs.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and I are working to make sure pharmaceutical companies cannot charge Americans more than consumers in other industrialized countries for the same prescription drugs.

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I’m also working to get rid of surprise medical bills that have devastated families across the country and to create a consumer-friendly database of prescription drug prices. 

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These aren’t earth-shattering ideas. They are real, simple solutions to bring down healthcare costs right now.”

Read the full op-ed in Modern Healthcare HERE.

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