Summary
With a health care package potentially on the horizon, the Impact Health team has created a tool to help you map the full landscape of bills on the table and assess where the opportunities and risks lie for your priorities.
Health Policy Menu
The Health Policy Menu is a comprehensive spreadsheet cataloguing bills currently in play that could be included in an upcoming package. It includes bills that have been marked up or passed by one chamber as well as bills that are top priorities for committee or party leadership. Many of these bills are bipartisan.
Each entry includes a summary, a score from the Congressional Budget Office (if available), and key dynamics. To quickly view bills of interest, entries can be filtered by topic, priority level, party support, budget impact, and status.
Additionally, the spreadsheet includes a section-by-section summary of the Lower Costs, More Transparency Act of 2026 (H.R. 9393) – the wide-ranging bipartisan bill advanced by the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Lastly, we provide a list of key dates – including the government funding deadline and other expiring provisions that could serve as potential legislative vehicles.
We will update the spreadsheet as new information becomes available.
Policy Landscape
Whether Congress pursues a bipartisan health care package during the lame duck session will depend on several factors. The outcome of the November election will shape the political appetite for both parties to work together. A potential third Republican budget reconciliation package could also complicate the path forward.
At the same time, there is a real appetite on both sides of the aisle for addressing key issues, especially health care affordability. The government funding deadline and other expiring provisions create a potential window – and put pressure on lawmakers – to advance legislation.
If an end-of-year package does not materialize, many of the same proposals are likely to resurface in the new Congress, potentially with another legislative push during the first half of 2027 before the presidential election dominates Washington’s attention.
Up Next
A continuing resolution to fund the federal government expires on December 11. In the near term, we will be watching for any additional legislative movement before Congress adjourns for the pre-election October recess.
The spreadsheet includes some of the bills that will be discussed at the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health hearing on September 15 focused on Medicare physician payment and health care cybersecurity. We will update the spreadsheet to reflect any significant activity during this work period.