The House Ways & Means Committee (W&M) convened hospital system CEOs as part of a broader Republican oversight series aimed at examining and reducing health care prices across sectors. Republicans focused on hospital price growth, consolidation, transparency gaps, and perceived inefficiencies as key cost drivers, arguing for greater competition and price transparency as primary reform levers. Democrats centered coverage losses,… (Eisen, April 29, 2026) #Affordable Care Act, #Costs, #Workforce