Expand access to health care.

Katherine M. Clark · Massachusetts · Democratic

policy impact 3.00 specificity 4.00 extraction confidence 93%

Occurrences

access to health care

Clark identifies access to health care as an urgent work item still ahead.

Katherine Clark for Congress
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Preserving evidence-based access to mifepristone, including when dispensed by mail or retail pharmacy, is necessary to mitigate the imminent harm facing members of the public. Women deserve access to mifepristone for reproductive health care, and all Americans deserve integrity in the congressionally mandated, evidence-based process for FDA’s drug regulatory decisions.

Clark joined an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to preserve access to mifepristone and oppose restrictions that would limit reproductive health care access.

Following Emergency Stay, Clark Leads 250+ Democrats in Supreme Court Fight to Protect Mifepristone Access, Women’s Health Care, and FDA Authority | Katherine Clark Democratic Whip
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Women deserve access to mifepristone for reproductive health care, and all Americans deserve integrity in the congressionally mandated, evidence-based process for FDA’s drug regulatory decisions.

Clark backs preserving access to reproductive health care, specifically mifepristone, by defending FDA’s approval process.

Following Emergency Stay, Clark Leads 250+ Democrats in Supreme Court Fight to Protect Mifepristone Access, Women’s Health Care, and FDA Authority - Press Releases - Congresswoman Katherine Clark
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Evidence

Yesterday, more than 250 House and Senate Democrats... filed an amicus brief to the Supreme Court urging them to overturn a Fifth Circuit decision that would upend the FDA approval process and restrict access to mifepristone. ... the emergency stay is necessary to ensure that Louisiana is not able to deny medically appropriate care to patients far beyond the state’s borders.

Clark joined and publicly led a formal court filing aimed at preserving access to a medication and related reproductive health care, which is a concrete pro-access action but not itself a delivered policy change.

partial same_term A for effort

The House GOP agenda: Nothing to lower costs. Nothing to protect healthcare. Nothing to keep communities safe. Everything to make billionaires even richer.

Her official site shows continued public emphasis on protecting health care access and lowering costs, but this is advocacy rather than a completed deliverable.

unresolved same_term

Congresswoman Katherine Clark | 5th District of Massachusetts
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The current official homepage spotlights health care as an active issue, including a call to prevent premium hikes, a critique of Republican health care cuts, and a prompt for constituents to share their health care stories.

This shows continued advocacy on health care access, but it does not show a completed policy expansion or a dated action in the June 16-18 lookback window.

unresolved same_term

Congresswoman Katherine Clark | 5th District of Massachusetts
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Clark led more than 250 House and Senate Democrats in an amicus filing urging the Supreme Court to preserve mifepristone access and FDA authority, a concrete same-term action aimed at protecting health care access.

This is a serious pro-access action, but it is litigation support rather than a completed federal policy expansion, so the broader promise remains only partially fulfilled.

partial same_term A for effort

The House Clerk records Roll Call 49 on H.R. 1319, the American Rescue Plan Act, as passed 219-212; Clark (MA), Democratic, Massachusetts, voted Yea.

Clark voted for the American Rescue Plan Act, an enacted law that included multiple health access provisions, including enhanced ACA premium assistance, community health center funding, and Medicaid incentives.

partial same_term A for effort

Roll Call 49 | Bill Number: H. R. 1319
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Public Law 117-2 section 9661 is titled improving affordability by expanding premium assistance for consumers and set lower premium percentages for 2021 and 2022, including 0 percent up to 150 percent of poverty and 8.5 percent at 400 percent and higher.

The enacted law expanded ACA premium tax-credit assistance, directly improving affordability and access to health insurance for marketplace consumers.

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Public Law 117-2, American Rescue Plan Act of 2021
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Section 2601 appropriated $7.6 billion for community health centers and community care, with funds available for grants to federally qualified health centers and related health services and infrastructure.

The law funded community health centers and allowed money to expand health care services and infrastructure, which supports a partial fulfillment of expanding health care access.

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Public Law 117-2, American Rescue Plan Act of 2021
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Section 9814 created a temporary 5 percentage point FMAP increase for qualifying states that begin covering the ACA Medicaid expansion population for eight quarters.

The enacted Medicaid incentive was a concrete federal policy to encourage non-expansion states to broaden Medicaid coverage, supporting partial delivery of the access promise.

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Public Law 117-2, American Rescue Plan Act of 2021
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The House Clerk records Roll Call 420 on H.R. 5376 as passed 220-207 on the motion to concur in the Senate amendment; Clark (MA), Democratic, Massachusetts, voted Yea.

Clark voted for the Inflation Reduction Act, later enacted as Public Law 117-169, which extended ACA subsidies and lowered some Medicare drug costs.

partial same_term A for effort

Roll Call 420 | Bill Number: H. R. 5376
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Section 12001, titled improve affordability and reduce premium costs of health insurance for consumers, extended the enhanced premium tax credit rules through taxable years before January 1, 2026.

The enacted Inflation Reduction Act continued the ARPA marketplace subsidy expansion, preserving more affordable health coverage for ACA marketplace consumers.

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Public Law 117-169, Inflation Reduction Act of 2022
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Section 11406 added Medicare Part D cost-sharing rules for covered insulin products; for plan years 2023 through 2025, a month's supply may not exceed $35.

The law lowered out-of-pocket insulin costs for Medicare beneficiaries, improving affordability of care and medicines, though it is a targeted expansion rather than comprehensive health-care access reform.

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Public Law 117-169, Inflation Reduction Act of 2022
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Clark's office said she led more than 250 congressional Democrats in an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to preserve mifepristone access and FDA authority.

This shows concrete advocacy to protect reproductive health care access, but it is litigation support rather than an enacted federal expansion of health care access.

partial same_term A for effort

Congress.gov lists H.R.3421, the Medicare for All Act, as a Health bill introduced May 17, 2023, with latest action on December 17, 2024, referred to the Subcommittee on Health and status Introduced.

The Medicare for All bill reflects a concrete legislative pathway to broad health coverage expansion, but the official record shows it did not become law in the 118th Congress, so it supports effort or unresolved ambition rather than delivery.

unresolved same_term

H.R.3421 - Medicare for All Act, 118th Congress (2023-2024)
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Assessments

delivered same_term

Clark, as a federal House member, voted for enacted laws that materially expanded or protected health care access during her term. The American Rescue Plan expanded ACA premium assistance, funded community health centers, and created Medicaid expansion incentives; the Inflation Reduction Act extended enhanced ACA subsidies and capped some Medicare insulin costs. Later advocacy on mifepristone and Medicare for All adds effort but is not needed for full credit because enacted federal provisions directly advanced the broad promise to expand access to health care.

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partial same_term A for effort

Clark has documented same-term advocacy aimed at protecting and preserving access to health care, including leading a large amicus filing to defend mifepristone access and using her office to press health care access issues. That is meaningful effort toward the promise, but the evidence does not show a completed federal policy expansion, so the claim is only partially fulfilled.

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partial same_term A for effort

Clark took concrete same-term action to protect and preserve access to health care, including leading or joining a major Supreme Court amicus effort concerning mifepristone access and FDA authority. However, the evidence shows advocacy and litigation support rather than a completed federal policy expansion of health care access attributable to her. The broad promise is therefore partially advanced but not fully delivered on this record.

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