Jeanne has sponsored a legislative package that would make health care much more affordable by reducing deductibles and copayments, increasing and expanding tax credits for more middle-class families, reducing out-of-pocket costs, and capping charges for uninsured patients.
She backs legislation to make health care more affordable by cutting deductibles, copays, and out-of-pocket costs and expanding tax credits.
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The Senate passed H.R. 3590, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and Shaheen voted yea.
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Shaheen supported passage of the ACA, a major federal health-care reform that aimed to expand coverage and change costs.
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The shutdown deal only promised a later Senate vote on health-care legislation, and Shaheen voted to advance it.
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): In her later Senate service, Shaheen backed a deal that kept ACA-related health care negotiations alive, showing continued pursuit rather than completion.
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Shaheen said she was open to income caps and fraud fixes for ACA premium tax credits and would consider a GOP minimum-premium proposal.
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Shaheen was still actively negotiating ACA subsidy reform in 2025, which is evidence of ongoing health-care policy work in later service.
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calling for a floor vote on her bipartisan, bicameral legislation to cap monthly insulin costs.
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): In the lookback window, Shaheen publicly pushed for a Senate floor vote on her INSULIN Act; this shows active pursuit, not enactment.
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce
Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): GovInfo records House companion legislation introduced during the lookback window and referred to committees, confirming bicameral effort but no enactment.
Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): GovInfo shows Shaheen's Senate INSULIN Act was reported in the Senate and placed on the calendar, a concrete legislative advance short of passage.
Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): The Senate rejected cloture on S.3385 to extend enhanced health care premium tax credits; Shaheen was recorded as voting Yea, showing effort but blockage.
to lower premiums and make purchasing health insurance more affordable
Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): Shaheen's official health-care page credits her with securing ACA premium tax credit enhancements in ARP and IRA, evidence of partial delivery on costs/access.
$1,725,000 in Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS) she secured
Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): During the lookback window, Shaheen highlighted delivered FY2026 funding for Cottage Hospital improvements, a narrow access-related health-care delivery item.
Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): Shaheen voted Yea to advance congressional disapproval of CMS's 2027 ACA marketplace and Basic Health Program rule. The motion failed 48–51, documenting blocked health-policy action during the lookback window, not enacted reform.
To require group health plans and group or individual health insurance coverage to provide coverage for over-the-counter contraceptives.
Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): GovInfo lists Shaheen as an original cosponsor of legislation expanding insurance coverage for over-the-counter contraception. Introduction and referral to the Senate HELP Committee establish concrete pursuit of affordability and access; this record does not establish enactment.
To provide women with increased access to preventive and life-saving cancer screening.
Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): Shaheen was an original cosponsor of this cancer-screening access bill, introduced and referred to the Senate HELP Committee during the lookback window. This documents additional access-related legislative effort, without establishing enactment or delivery of comprehensive reform.
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Shaheen can be credited with continued work on health policy after her 2020 reelection, including ACA-related subsidy and negotiation efforts during the Senate term that began in 2021. That supports the promise as an ongoing pursuit. But the record provided does not show that she led or materially advanced a clearly comprehensive health reform package in this term, and the strongest major reform evidence cited is her 2009 ACA vote, which predates the 2020 campaign by many years. On this record, she showed meaningful effort and partial follow-through, but not full delivery of the broader comprehensive-reform promise.
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