WASHINGTON, March 10 -- Sen. Jon Husted issued the following press release:
Senator Jon Husted (R-Ohio) introduced the bipartisan Healthy Competition for Better Care Act, which aims to ban anticompetitive clauses in health care contracting between payers and health care providers and hospitals.
The Healthy Competition for Better Care Act enables transparency in health care and ends anti-competitive practices by removing restrictions that stifle competition in health care markets.
Reps. Jodey Arrington (R-Texas), Rick Allen (R-Ga.), Donald Davis (D-N.C.) and Chuck Edwards (R-N.C.) introduced a companion bill to the Healthy Competition for Better Care Act in the U.S. House of Representatives.
"The cost of health care has outpaced inflatio...