Replace Medicare's Sustainable Growth Rate payment formula with a permanent solution and increase payments to primary care providers.

Janice D. Schakowsky · Illinois · Democratic

policy impact 0.70 specificity 0.90 extraction confidence 90%

Commitment kind: unknown. Promised action: not established. Promised outcome: not established. Deadline: unknown; not assumed expired.

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Occurrences

For example, I am working hard to replace Medicare's Sustainable Growth Rate payment formula with a permanent solution that more adequately compensates doctors and on initiatives to increase payments to primary care providers.

Commits to replacing the Medicare SGR formula and boosting primary care payments.

Health Care Workforce | Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky
secondary · other · model gpt-5.4-mini

Evidence

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Schakowsky's official issue page says she is working to replace Medicare's SGR formula and increase payments to primary care providers.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Establishes the promise language and links it to Schakowsky's federal House role and health workforce agenda.

unresolved unknown

Health Care Workforce | Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 91%

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Schakowsky said she strongly supported H.R. 3961 and called for a new payment system to fairly reimburse doctors.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Shows concrete effort by Schakowsky to advance a Medicare physician-payment reform before the eventual SGR repeal.

partial same_term A for effort

Congressional Record: Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 88%

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Section 5501 created incentive payments for primary care services, adding 10 percent to otherwise payable Medicare amounts for 2011-2015.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The ACA enacted a temporary Medicare primary-care payment increase, satisfying the primary-care payment component in part because it was time-limited.

partial same_term

H.R.3590 Text - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Section 2706
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 95%

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The House passed H.R. 3590 by 219-212; Schakowsky is recorded as voting Aye.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Shows Schakowsky supported the ACA vote that enacted the Medicare primary-care incentive payment provision.

partial same_term A for effort

Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 97%

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The enacted law's title states it amended Medicare to repeal the SGR and improve physician payments.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): MACRA permanently replaced Medicare's SGR payment formula, delivering the central SGR-repeal component of the promise in later federal service.

delivered later_term

Public Law 114-10, Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 97%

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The House passed H.R. 2 by 392-37; Schakowsky is recorded as voting Nay.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Although the SGR repeal became law, Schakowsky did not vote for the final MACRA bill that delivered it, limiting attribution of the final enactment to her.

partial later_term

Office of the Clerk, U.S. House Roll Call 144, H.R.2
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 96%

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Assessments

Public state: unverified As of unknown · legacy_unverified · . Original AI recommendation (not independently established): partial. later_term A for effort

The promised policy was only partly attributable to Schakowsky. Congress permanently repealed and replaced Medicare's SGR formula through MACRA in 2015, but Schakowsky voted against the final House bill, so the central delivered outcome has weak candidate credit despite her earlier support for physician-payment reform. The primary-care payment component was advanced through the ACA, which she supported, but that Medicare primary-care increase was temporary for 2011-2015 rather than a permanent increase. Overall, the policy result was substantially achieved at the federal level, but candidate attribution and the time-limited primary-care increase support partial rather than full delivery.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 90%