Authorize federal grants to help states plan, develop, and operate small employer purchasing cooperatives.

Susan M. Collins · Maine · Republican

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Occurrences

To remedy these problems, my legislation would authorize federal grants to assist states with the planning, development, and operation of small employer purchasing cooperatives.

She commits to federal grants supporting state-run purchasing cooperatives for small employers.

EXPANDING ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE HEALTH CA... | U.S. Senator Susan Collins
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Evidence

Collins said the plan she and Cassidy were developing would let states keep the ACA or choose an alternative route, with federal funding bundled and redirected at the state level.

Later-term Collins health-policy action shows she pursued a broad state-based funding model, but it does not show enactment of federal grants for small-employer purchasing cooperatives. No concrete sign of delivery in the lookback window.

unresolved later_term A for effort

Senators Collins, Cassidy to Introduce ACA Replacement Plan to Expand Choices, Lower Health Care Costs
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Assessments

partial later_term

Collins does not appear to have delivered this promise during her 2003-2009 Senate term: there is no clear sign that she secured enactment of a federal law authorizing grants to states to plan, develop, and operate small-employer purchasing cooperatives. A later federal outcome came closest through the Affordable Care Act's state exchange and SHOP framework, which helped states and small employers, but that was enacted after the term in question and not chiefly through Collins's authorship or material advancement. Her later 2017 Collins-Cassidy health proposal showed continued interest in state-based health funding, but it was broader, not this specific cooperative-grant promise, and it did not pass.

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