In Congress, Ann will continue to support legislation that makes health care more affordable and accessible for all Missourians.
Ann Wagner will continue to support legislation that makes health care more affordable and accessible for Missourians.
Occurrences
Evidence
The campaign issues page says, under Health Care, that Wagner 'will continue to support legislation that makes health care more affordable and accessible for all Missourians.'
Congress.gov shows H.R. 5378 was a health bill 'to promote price transparency in the health care sector' and included titles on improving transparency and reducing health care costs.
The House Clerk records that on December 11, 2023, Roll Call 708 on H.R. 5378 passed, and Ann Wagner voted Yea.
Assessments
The promise is broad and framed as continued support rather than enactment of a specific bill. The evidence shows Wagner voted for H.R. 5378, a federal health-care price-transparency and cost-reduction bill that passed the House during her term, which materially supports the promised policy direction. However, the record provided does not show that the legislation became law or that the broader outcome of making health care more affordable and accessible for Missourians was delivered, so this merits partial credit rather than full delivery.
The promise was broad and ongoing: Wagner said she would continue supporting legislation to make health care more affordable and accessible. The evidence shows she voted for H.R. 5378, the Lower Costs, More Transparency Act, in the same congressional term, and the bill was directly related to health care price transparency and cost reduction. That demonstrates concrete legislative support, but the evidence does not show a broader delivered affordability/access outcome for Missourians or sustained post-promise action, so partial is the best fit.