Bipartisan bill aims to end health conflicts and bring down costs after years of complaints in Ohio

By: Marty Schladen

Outlets: Ohio Capital Journal

Published: February 16, 2026

Words: 1,273

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 6 days ago

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A bipartisan bill filed in the U.S. Senate last week seeks to lower health costs by eliminating incentives huge conglomerates have to raise them. It would do so by prohibiting companies from being both the provider of health services and the entity that determines how much consumers ultimately have to pay for them.

Introduced by Sens. Josh Hawly, R-Mo., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., the Break Up Big Medicine Act would be the biggest antitrust …

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