My goal is to ensure that every person has access to affordable, quality and accessible health care.
Ensure that every person has access to affordable, quality, and accessible health care.
Occurrences
Jan has made winning affordable, quality health care for all Americans her top priority.
I am committed to ensuring that every person in the United States has access to quality, affordable health care
Evidence
The page states: 'My goal is to ensure that every person has access to affordable, quality and accessible health care' and says the nation 'fails to guarantee access to health care.'
In the House vote on final passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Schakowsky is listed as voting 'Aye.'
Schakowsky announced she was reintroducing the EMPOWER for Health Act, saying it is designed to increase access to health care in underserved areas and that 'Every person deserves access to quality, affordable healthcare.'
The press release says the CHOICE Act would add a publicly operated health insurance option and that Schakowsky is 'committed to ensuring that every person in the United States has access to quality, affordable health care.'
The page says timely access to quality care requires a dedicated workforce and that she is working hard to meet that goal, while noting the Affordable Care Act includes improvements she offered.
Assessments
Schakowsky supported and helped advance major federal health-care expansion through her Aye vote on final ACA passage in 2010, and official materials indicate some ACA improvements reflected her work. That materially advanced affordable health-care access during her House service. However, the promise was universal in scope, and her own later official materials still describe universal affordable, quality, accessible care as an unmet goal requiring new legislation such as a public option and workforce/access bills. Because the promised outcome has not been fully achieved, but she made concrete federal legislative progress toward it, the appropriate outcome is partial rather than delivered.
The promised outcome was universal access to affordable, quality, accessible health care. The evidence shows Schakowsky supported major legislation such as the ACA and continued to introduce or support bills aimed at expanding access, including public option and workforce/access legislation. However, her own official materials still describe universal access as an unmet goal and ongoing work, not a delivered result. Because there were serious legislative efforts but the promised universal outcome was not achieved, the proper outcome is never with an effort badge.