Lowering the Cost of Healthcare: Technology's Role in Driving Affordability

Joint hearing of the Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs and the Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services (House) · December 11, 2025

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Chair opens the joint hearing, stating the panels will explore how innovative technology can lower U.S. health care costs and criticizing prior Democratic regulatory and IRA policies as market-distorting. He frames the hearing around innovation, AI, telehealth and 3D printing as cost-lowering tools.

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Speakers:Unidentified Chair (self-introduction)

A joint House subcommittee hearing examined whether health-care technology and AI can lower U.S. health costs, while Democrats repeatedly urged Congress to extend enhanced Affordable Care Act premium tax credits that expire at year-end and Republicans argued regulatory reform and market competition are the remedy.

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