Earlier this year, the Leadership Council of Advancing Free Market Healthcare, which includes leaders from eleven Wisconsin companies representing different regions of the state, has adopted the organization’s 2025-26 Legislative Agenda.
The AFMH legislative agenda is being used during regional meetings with lawmakers and employers that are being held around the state in 2025 and 2026. It serves as the jumping off point for education and advocacy, but it doesn’t replace the work we do to defend employers against policy proposals that would impact employees and employers negatively. Think of it as our proactive legislative agenda that, if adopted, would improve the market for health care in Wisconsin.
This session’s legislative agenda focuses on six ideas:
- Ensure employers can access their claims data to ensure employers can meet their fiduciary obligations and protect employee paychecks
- Advance price transparency by giving employers a list of comparable, “all-in” prices for hospital-based shoppable services and require honest billing when it comes to facility fees and billing by hospital-owned clinics
- Promote competition by removing barriers for independent primary and specialty care providers, and give the Department of Justice more authority to investigate anticompetitive behavior
- Support the state’s All Payers Claims Database as an important data asset to inform evidence-based policy making
- Advance Workers Compensation reform to address the fact that Wisconsin has the second highest prices for medical care associated with Workers Compensation
- Protect employers and employees by protecting ERISA and ensuring that employer plans have the flexibility they need to tailor benefits to the needs of their workforce
If you want to help us promote these ideas and stop legislation that would increase health costs for employers and employees, please sign up to become a member of Advancing Free Market Healthcare and join our regional meetings with lawmakers.