Strengthen protections for people with preexisting conditions and end surprise billing.

Marilyn will continue to fight to strengthen protections for people with preexisting conditions and end surprise billings, and she will continue to advocate patent reform so generic drugs can come to market more quickly, which will lower the cost of prescriptions.

Commitment to protect people with preexisting conditions and eliminate surprise medical bills.

Universal Health Care - Marilyn Strickland For Congress
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Marilyn will work to prohibit hospitals and healthcare providers from charging unexpected out-of-network rates and to increase transparency around the cost of medical visits and procedures.

Commits to ending surprise medical bills and improving cost transparency.

Strickland-Healthcare-Plan.pdf
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CMS says the final rule makes “major reforms” to “strengthen the No Surprises Act” and its IDR process.

In the lookback window, federal agencies strengthened implementation of surprise-billing protections, but this was an agency action rather than a Strickland-specific legislative delivery.

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Federal Rule Takes Aim at Health Care Bureaucracy, Reducing Dispute Fees, and Boosting Transparency | CMS
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The JEC district fact sheet says Strickland’s ARPA vote helped 7,000 WA-10 residents newly enroll in ACA plans.

A recent congressional fact sheet credits Strickland’s American Rescue Plan vote with expanding ACA coverage in her district, a concrete affordability-related step but not a direct new preexisting-condition protection.

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How The American Rescue Plan Helped Expand Health Insurance
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GAO says the No Surprises Act bars out-of-network providers from sending surprise bills and took effect January 1, 2022.

Official GAO review confirms the surprise-billing component was federally delivered during Strickland’s first House term, though the law was enacted before she took office.

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Private Health Insurance: Provider Participation and Payments for Selected Services Before and After the No Surprises Act
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HealthCare.gov says Marketplace plans cannot refuse coverage or charge more because of a pre-existing condition.

Federal ACA protections for preexisting conditions remain in force, but this source does not show Strickland strengthened them beyond existing law.

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Marketplace health plans cover pre-existing conditions
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Strickland said the American Rescue Plan’s expanded tax credits were ones she “helped fight for.”

Her office tied her ARP work to expanded ACA premium tax credits and coverage access, which supports partial progress on health-care protections and affordability.

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Strickland Releases New Report Detailing Health Care Marketplace Savings from American Rescue Plan for WA-10 Residents
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The Clerk records Strickland as voting Yea on the House motion concurring in the Senate amendment to H.R. 1319.

Official roll-call evidence confirms Strickland voted for final House passage of the American Rescue Plan, which expanded ACA premium assistance.

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Office of the Clerk, U.S. House Roll Call 72, H.R. 1319
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Congress.gov lists Rep. Strickland as a cosponsor and shows H.R. 247 was introduced and referred to Ways and Means.

Strickland later cosponsored a bill to expand eligibility for the refundable credit for qualified health plans, but Congress.gov shows no enactment, so this remains unresolved effort.

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H.R.247 - Health Care Affordability Act of 2025
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The campaign plan promised to “End surprise medical bills” and require cost transparency from providers.

This establishes the original campaign commitment; later evidence shows surprise-billing protections were implemented nationally, while direct strengthening of preexisting-condition protections is only partially supported.

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Strickland-Healthcare-Plan.pdf
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