Last Updated: September 01, 2026
The American Health Security Act
In a high-functioning economy, broad access to care is core infrastructure — it improves workforce productivity, reduces crisis costs, and lowers long-run risk for households and businesses. Every American deserves quality healthcare. Period.
What it includes:
- Public health insurance option available to all Americans, regardless of employment — competing with private insurance on price and coverage
- Medicare negotiation for all prescription drugs (saving $250-300B annually based on the 2026 CBO baseline)
- No surprise billing — providers who take the public option must accept its payment as payment in full
- A nationwide provider network built on Medicare’s, so the vast majority of doctors and hospitals are already in it
- Far less red tape than private insurance, with prior-authorization requirements limited to a narrow, published list rather than applied broadly
- Stronger ACA marketplaces: Bigger subsidies, full Medicaid expansion incentives for the holdout states
- Hospital price transparency and regulation to end the consolidated-region price gouging that has driven medical bankruptcies
- Funding: Premiums from enrollees + savings from administrative efficiency + drug-negotiation savings
What this means for you:
- If you like your current insurance, keep it
- If you want better, cheaper coverage, choose the public option
- If you’re uninsured, get covered — no waiting, no medical questions
- If you’re underinsured, get real protection
- Prescription drug prices drop dramatically
- A medical emergency no longer means bankruptcy
- Less time arguing with insurance companies, more time with your doctor