Lowering Health Care Costs for Americans Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [S. 3389 Introduced in Senate (IS)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 3389 To lower health care costs for Americans. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES December 9, 2025 Mr. Marshall introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To lower health care costs for Americans. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. (a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Lowering Health Care Costs for Americans Act''. (b) Table of Contents.--The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. TITLE I--GENERAL PROVISIONS Sec. 101. Minimum monthly premium payments. Sec. 102. Requiring biometric and ID verification. Sec. 103. Facilitating enrollment in and payment into Healthcare Affordability Accounts. Sec. 104. Healthcare Affordability Accounts. Sec. 105. Extension of temporary enhanced premium credits. Sec. 106. Special rules relating to coverage of abortion services. Sec. 107. Special rules relating to credit for plans covering abortion services. Sec. 108. Reporting of health insurance coverage. Sec. 109. Exclusion of gender transition procedures from coverage under qualified health plans. Sec. 110. Funding cost sharing reduction payments. Sec. 111. Waivers for State innovation. TITLE II--HOSPITAL TRANSPARENCY REQUIREMENTS Sec. 201. Strengthening hospital price transparency requirements. Sec. 202. Increasing price transparency of clinical diagnostic laboratory tests. Sec. 203. Imaging transparency. Sec. 204. Ambulatory surgical center price transparency requirements. Sec. 205. Strengthening health coverage transparency requirements. Sec. 206. Increasing