Independent Voices
Market Actors for Reform
Not physicians. Not legislators. They looked at the system from a business angle — and arrived at the same structural diagnosis. Then they built something.
Mark Cuban
Entrepreneur · Cost Plus Drugs · GoodRx · S.3822
Founded Cost Plus Drugs on transparent cost-plus pricing, backed S.3822 as a "no brainer," funded Stella McMahon's denied medical flight, and publicly framed the malpractice accountability question that shaped the Clinical Integrity Amendment.
FIGS
Medical Apparel Company · Healthcare is Human Act Co-Author
Co-authored the Healthcare is Human Act ($6,000 tax credit for care access) and sponsored a Capitol Hill nurses rally on May 21, 2026 to push for its passage. A scrubs company at the Capitol is exactly what this category means.
CounterForce Health
Free AI Appeal Letter Generator
Generates medically grounded, legally formatted appeal letters to fight insurance denials. Someone looked at the denial machine and built a countermeasure. Free.
Dollar For
Free Charity Care Navigation · Bill Elimination
Navigates hospital charity care programs on patients' behalf — often eliminating medical bills entirely. Hospitals are required to offer charity care; most patients don't know to ask. Dollar For built the infrastructure around that gap.
Claimable
Patient Bill Fighting · Dispute Infrastructure
Helps patients dispute and fight medical bills. Built on the premise that the system counts on patients not fighting back — and that most won't without infrastructure to help them do it.
FAIR Health
Independent Nonprofit · Cost Data · Appeals Evidence
Built a transparent cost estimator to counter insurer pricing opacity. Their data is used as evidence in insurance appeals — what a procedure actually costs in a given ZIP code vs. what an insurer claims.
ClearPrices
Hospital Pricing Grades · Transparency Accountability
Grades 3,000+ hospitals on what they charge Medicare patients vs. what Medicare actually pays. Accountability through data — hospital overcharging made visible and comparable.