So we’ve got to control the cost of healthcare.
Control the cost of healthcare.
Occurrences
In Congress, she is working to bring down the cost of housing, increase choices for childcare options, and cut out the middlemen who jack up the cost of healthcare.
Marie is working to bring down the cost of housing, increase choices for childcare options, and cut out the middlemen who jack up the cost of healthcare.
Evidence
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Rep. Gluesenkamp Perez said she met with the American Legion 150 to discuss veterans' services access, noted that rural areas make it difficult to connect veterans to the services they are entitled to, and said her office continues to assist Southwest Washington veterans through casework, including returning more than $1.6 million from the VA to constituents.
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Congress.gov lists H.R. 5145, the Bipartisan Premium Tax Credit Extension Act, as sponsored by Rep. Jennifer Kiggans and cosponsored by Marie Gluesenkamp Perez. The bill would extend for one year enhanced premium tax credit provisions that lower marketplace health insurance costs, but Congress.gov shows the latest action as referral to the House Committee on Ways and Means on September 4, 2025 and the tracker status as Introduced, not passed by both chambers or enacted.
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Gluesenkamp Perez's office reported that Ocean Beach Health would receive $1 million in federal funding for imaging services, that she passed an amendment to the FY2027 Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill directing NIH to study miscarriage pain-management strategies, and that she co-led the Bipartisan Premium Tax Credit Extension Act to extend ACA enhanced premium tax credits for one year. The same statement says H.R. 1 was signed into law on July 4, 2025 and terminated the temporary expansion of those ACA credits.
Assessments
The evidence shows Gluesenkamp Perez took healthcare-cost-related actions, especially cosponsoring the Bipartisan Premium Tax Credit Extension Act to temporarily extend enhanced ACA premium tax credits and supporting rural healthcare access funding. However, the core cost-control bill had not advanced beyond introduction/referral, and the record does not show an enacted federal outcome broadly controlling healthcare costs. Because she made a serious legislative attempt but did not deliver the promised outcome, this is best scored as not fulfilled with an effort badge.
The available record shows Gluesenkamp Perez worked on health-cost issues during her current House service, including introducing or co-leading bills aimed at lower-priced generic drugs, preventing ACA premium spikes, supporting rural ambulance access, and voting for House health-cost transparency legislation. However, the evidence does not show that she delivered a completed federal outcome that broadly controlled or reduced healthcare costs; the cited May 22, 2026 activity concerns veterans' service access and constituent VA casework, not a concrete healthcare-cost control measure. Because there were serious legislative efforts but no demonstrated enacted delivery of the promised outcome, this should be scored as not fulfilled with an effort badge.