We must expand health insurance coverage to include vision, dental, and hearing.
Expand health insurance coverage to include vision, dental, and hearing.
Occurrences
Evidence
We must expand health insurance coverage to include vision, dental, and hearing. In Congress, I will continue this work...
This bill provides for Medicare coverage of dental, vision, and hearing care...
Latest Action: House - 03/11/2025 Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means... This bill has the status Introduced
Medicare: ... provide coverage of dental, vision, and hearing care (see H.R. 2045), H1148 [11MR]
Assessments
McGarvey promised to expand health insurance coverage to include vision, dental, and hearing. The matching federal vehicle, H.R.2045 in the 119th Congress, would add Medicare dental, vision, and hearing coverage and McGarvey is tied to active legislative support. However, the bill remains only introduced/referred to committee and has not passed either chamber or become law, so the substantive promised outcome has not been delivered during his current federal term. Because there was a serious legislative attempt, effort credit applies.
McGarvey promised to expand health insurance coverage to include vision, dental, and hearing. The provided evidence shows a same-term legislative effort through H.R.2045, which would add Medicare coverage for dental, vision, and hearing care and is tied to McGarvey in the Congressional Record. However, the bill remained introduced/referred and was not enacted as of 2026-04-28, so the promised coverage expansion was not delivered. Because there was a serious legislative attempt that failed to achieve the outcome, this is classified as never with an effort badge.