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H.R. 8324119th CongressIn committeeLatest action Apr 16, 2026Decoded by AI · checked against the record
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HR 8324 expands health savings accounts, mandates hospital price transparency, and lets small businesses pool insurance buying power.
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HR 8324 makes three changes to US healthcare: it expands Health Savings Accounts by raising contribution limits, broadening eligibility, and allowing funds to cover gym memberships, vitamins, healthy food, and health-sharing ministries. It requires hospitals, labs, imaging centers, and insurers to publicly post actual prices for services, including rates negotiated with insurers and cash prices. It also creates Health Marketplace Pools, letting individuals and small businesses buy insurance collectively at group rates, and includes provisions on cancer drug pricing and access to certain experimental drugs.
The bill would affect nearly all Americans, with direct impact on HSA holders and those eligible to open one, patients comparing costs before receiving care, small business owners, and self-employed individuals. Hospitals and insurers would face new public disclosure requirements and potential fines.
Requiring hospitals and insurers to post prices publicly would create a searchable record of what different payers are charged for the same service. Allowing individuals and small businesses to pool purchasing would change how group insurance rates are currently structured for non-large employers.
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Right now: a House committee is reviewing it. If the Senate changes it, it goes back to the House before reaching the President.
Latest action: — Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Workforce, the Judiciary, Armed Services, Veterans' Affairs, and Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.