Would you support expanding access to Medicaid coverage for people living at or below the federal poverty line? Yes, I would support.
Support expanding Medicaid coverage for people living at or below the federal poverty line.
Occurrences
Evidence
Balint co-led a letter to HHS opposing reported plans to promote deprescribing psychiatric medications and urging continued access to evidence-based mental health care.
Balint joined a bill to expand access to HIV prevention medications, require coverage without out-of-pocket costs, and expand access for uninsured Americans.
Balint praised House passage of a three-year ACA premium tax credit extension as a step toward addressing soaring health care costs.
Assessments
Balint has taken same-term actions to expand access to health care and reduce coverage barriers, including backing legislation for uninsured patients and supporting ACA affordability measures. But the provided evidence does not show a clear Medicaid-specific push to expand coverage for people at or below the federal poverty line, nor a delivered Medicaid expansion outcome. Given the federal-office context, this supports partial credit for related health coverage advocacy rather than full delivery of the specific promise.