protecting and expanding Medicare’s power to negotiate drug prices
I will protect and expand Medicare's power to negotiate drug prices.
Occurrences
Evidence
My focus is on bipartisan solutions that help lower costs for hardworking Long Islanders. ... Help with Health Care: Extra Help: a Medicare program to help people with limited income and resources pay Medicare drug coverage (Part D) premiums, deductibles, coinsurance, and other costs. Lower Prescription Drug Costs: See how you can get more help now with other prescription drug costs on Medicare.
Assessments
The provided evidence shows Gillen publicly supports lowering prescription drug costs and points constituents to existing Medicare drug-cost assistance, but it does not document that she wrote, sponsored, voted for, or materially advanced legislation or executive action to protect or expand Medicare drug-price negotiation authority. Because she is an active federal officeholder and the evidence only establishes an ongoing priority rather than a delivered policy change or a failed serious attempt, the promise remains unresolved on this record.