she’s committed to comprehensive healthcare reform that works for working families and businesses.
Will pursue comprehensive healthcare reform that lowers costs and improves access for working families and businesses.
Occurrences
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.
Evidence
The Senate passed H.R. 3590, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and Shaheen voted yea.
The shutdown deal only promised a later Senate vote on health-care legislation, and Shaheen voted to advance it.
Shaheen said she was open to income caps and fraud fixes for ACA premium tax credits and would consider a GOP minimum-premium proposal.
Assessments
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.