Americans for Financial Reform
Congress
October 9, 2026

AFREF Comment on the Senate Committee on Finance’s Request for Information on Health Care Affordability

View or download a PDF of the letter here.

AFREF submitted a comment highlighting the importance of prohibiting extractive financial practices like stock buybacks, dividend payouts, and sale-leasebacks for entities participating in Medicare and Medicaid and reigning in private equity ownership in the healthcare sector, sharing AFREF’s work on the detrimental impacts of private equity takeovers across a range of subsectors as well as a broad range of policy solutions to address these harms.