The new Democratic Congress has a real plan for cutting health care costs and reducing the number of uninsured. Our plan includes programs to help small businesses, and break down barriers to allow more parents to buy into the State Children's Health Insurance Program – known as Healthy Kids and Kidcare in Florida.
Work on a plan to cut health care costs and reduce the number of uninsured, including programs to help small businesses and make it easier for more parents to buy into the State Children's Health Insurance Program.
Occurrences
If re-elected, she will ... lower the cost of housing and healthcare
Evidence
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Castor said, 'The new Democratic Congress has a real plan for cutting health care costs and reducing the number of uninsured,' and added that the plan 'includes programs to help small businesses, and break down barriers to allow more parents to buy into the State Children's Health Insurance Program.'
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Castor said she was 'an early leader on affordable children’s health legislation' and that several provisions of the first bill she filed as a member of Congress were included in the SCHIP reauthorization bill; the bill 'includes several provisions' from her earlier bill, including ways to make it easier for parents by 'eliminating costly bureaucratic red tape.'
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Castor stated she 'had a direct hand in drafting many provisions' of the historic health insurance reform legislation that passed the House and would benefit Floridians and their health.
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“The new Democratic Congress has a real plan for cutting health care costs and reducing the number of uninsured,” said Castor. “Our plan includes programs to help small businesses, and break down barriers to allow more parents to buy into the State Children's Health Insurance Program – known as Healthy Kids and Kidcare in Florida”.
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Several provisions of Castor’s bill are included in the legislation on the floor today, including bonus payments to states that cut bureaucracy to more quickly and efficiently enroll and retain children.
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Castor (FL) Democratic Florida FL Yea
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Full Title An act to amend title XXI of the Social Security Act to extend and improve the Children's Health Insurance Program, and for other purposes.
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More than 488,000 small business owners and millions of Florida families also will be eligible for tax credits to ensure coverage is affordable.
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Castor (FL) | Castor (FL) | Democratic | FL | Aye
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keep monthly premiums down for seniors enrolled in standalone Medicare prescription drug plans.
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Castor (FL) | Democratic | FL | Aye
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Date Approved March 23, 2010 Full Title An act entitled The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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This bill encourages states to make it easier for parents by eliminating costly bureaucratic red tape.
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An act to amend title XXI of the Social Security Act to extend and improve the Children's Health Insurance Program, and for other purposes.
Assessments
Castor publicly advanced the claimed health care agenda in office: she described a Democratic plan to cut costs and reduce the uninsured, tied it to small-business help and easier SCHIP buy-in, and later said she had a direct hand in drafting major health reform and that her children’s health provisions were included in SCHIP reauthorization. That is sufficient candidate credit for delivery within her term.
The promise was to work on a health care affordability and coverage plan, including small-business assistance and easier SCHIP access for parents. During Castor's first terms in Congress, she publicly advanced that agenda, filed children's health legislation, had provisions included in SCHIP reauthorization, and later stated she helped draft provisions of the major House health reform bill that became part of the 2010 federal health reform effort. Because the promised action was framed as working on and advancing a plan, and the evidence shows direct same-term legislative follow-through on SCHIP and broader health reform, this counts as delivered in the same federal office context.
Castor's promise was to work on a federal health-care affordability and coverage plan, including small-business help and easier SCHIP access for parents. During her House tenure she publicly advanced the same plan in 2007, materially advanced SCHIP reauthorization provisions tied to her own early legislation in 2009, and stated she helped draft provisions of the House-passed health reform legislation in 2010. These actions and enacted federal outcomes occurred while she remained in office, so candidate credit and timing support full delivery in the same term.
The promise was framed as working on a health care plan, not guaranteeing full enactment of every component. Evidence shows Castor publicly advanced the Democratic health care affordability plan in 2007, worked on SCHIP reauthorization provisions that eased enrollment barriers, and later stated she helped draft provisions of major federal health reform legislation passed by the House in 2010. These actions directly match the promised work on lowering costs, reducing the uninsured, helping small businesses, and expanding access through children's health coverage policy during the same congressional term period.