Issue
Health Care & Prescription Drugs
Officials on Health Care & Prescription Drugs
Positions on record
- , Bridget BrinkStated position
Reverse the Medicaid cuts in the 2025 reconciliation law (repeal what she calls the 'Big Ugly Bill').
View position & sources → - Christina BohannanStated position
Expand the number of drugs Medicare can negotiate lower prices for, and extend those negotiated prices to people on private insurance.
View position & sources → - Mariannette Miller-MeeksStated position
Pass the Accelerating Kids' Access to Care Act (H.R.4758) to reduce barriers for children with complex medical conditions by streamlining the Medicaid provider-enrollment process for out-of-state care.
View position & sources → - Mariannette Miller-MeeksStated position
Lower prescription drug prices by imposing transparency and fairness on pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) through her DRUG Act (H.R.2305).
View position & sources → - Manny RutinelStated position
Crack down on surprise hospital billing and bar insurers from charging out-of-network rates for care at in-network facilities.
View position & sources → - Manny RutinelStated position
Expand Medicare's power to negotiate lower prices for prescription drugs.
View position & sources → - Adam GrayStated position
Protect and expand access to affordable health care so families don't have to choose between paying for health care and rent — including reversing the Medicaid cuts (Protecting Health Care and Lowering Costs Act of 2025) and expanding access for rural communities and veterans.
View position & sources → - Haley StevensStated position
Expand access to Medicare (rather than adopt a Medicare for All system).
View position & sources → - Rick LarsenStated position
Restore and extend the enhanced Affordable Care Act premium tax credits to preserve affordable coverage for roughly 26,000 Northwest Washington residents.
View position & sources → - Pete AguilarStated position
Lower prescription drug costs for Inland Empire families and seniors by empowering Medicare to negotiate drug prices directly with manufacturers and capping out-of-pocket insulin costs at $35 per month.
View position & sources → - Alex PadillaStated position
Work to guarantee quality, affordable, and equitable health care for every American.
View position & sources → - Ron JohnsonStated position
Pledged to work tirelessly on behalf of patients and their families until federal Right to Try legislation, allowing terminally ill patients access to experimental treatments, was signed into law.
View position & sources → - Brian BabinStated position
Establish common-sense patient-safety standards for orthodontic treatment provided through teledentistry via his ORTHO Act (H.R.9829).
View position & sources → - James C. JusticeStated position
Committed to work to reform health care to lower insurance costs, improve care, and protect access for people with pre-existing conditions.
View position & sources → - Jacky RosenStated position
Committed to keep fighting to lower prescription drug costs, including continuing efforts to cap insulin costs and preserve Medicare's ability to negotiate lower drug prices.
View position & sources → - Tina SmithStated position
Promised at the start of her Senate term to work to reduce the cost of prescription drugs for Minnesotans, an ongoing commitment reflected in legislation to increase drug-price transparency and let Medicare negotiate prices.
View position & sources → - Angela D. AlsobrooksStated position
Alsobrooks supports placing caps on total out-of-pocket expenses and expanding the federal government's ability to negotiate prescription drug prices.
View position & sources → - Angela D. AlsobrooksStated position
Alsobrooks will work to pass a Medicare buy-in option and apply ACA subsidies to the plan so all Americans have access regardless of income.
View position & sources → - Steve PadillaStated position
Work to guarantee quality, affordable, and equitable health care for every American.
View position & sources → - John KennedyStated position
Committed to replacing Obamacare with an alternative health care system.
View position & sources → - Tim KaineStated position
States he remains committed to protecting the Affordable Care Act, Medicare, and Medicaid.
View position & sources → - Steve DainesStated position
Made a campaign promise to Montanans to work to repeal Obamacare (the Affordable Care Act).
View position & sources → - Adam B. SchiffStated position
Lower medicine costs by letting the government negotiate the prices of all prescription drugs.
View position & sources → - Adam B. SchiffStated position
Work toward passing Medicare for All.
View position & sources → - Jerry MoranStated position
Pledged to continue supporting federal funding for critical mental health services.
View position & sources → - Nathan JohnsonStated position
Pledged to work tirelessly on behalf of patients and their families until federal Right to Try legislation, allowing terminally ill patients access to experimental treatments, was signed into law.
View position & sources → - Mike CrapoStated position
Pledges to continue working with Senate colleagues to reform the health care system so all Idahoans can receive needed care.
View position & sources → - Bill CassidyStated position
Committed to lead the effort in Congress to lower prescription drug prices and create competition.
View position & sources → - Michael F. BennetStated position
In his first 100 days as governor, complete and publish a comprehensive evaluation of health care cost drivers in Colorado.
View position & sources → - Michael F. BennetStated position
Design and launch a new Colorado Public Option for Coloradans who earn too much to qualify for Medicaid but struggle to afford individual-market coverage.
View position & sources → - Sheldon WhitehouseStated position
Introduced the Medical Bankruptcy Fairness Act to reform bankruptcy procedures for people burdened by medical debt, including letting families keep at least $250,000 in home equity and keeping medical bankruptcies off consumer credit reports.
View position & sources → - Jon OssoffStated position
Committed to crack down on the use of artificial intelligence to improperly deny health care by co-sponsoring a Congressional Review Act resolution to repeal the WISeR Model that applies AI review to Medicare service decisions.
View position & sources → - John W. HickenlooperStated position
Committed to fight to create a public option, saying he would work to restore health care coverage cuts and add a government insurance option.
View position & sources → - John W. HickenlooperStated position
Pledged to lower drug costs by empowering Medicare to negotiate the prices of all prescription drugs.
View position & sources → - , Bridget BrinkStated position
Cap the cost of insulin at $35 for all Americans.
View position & sources → - Bruce WestermanStated position
Advance the Fair Care Act (H.R. 8840) to lower the cost of health care services, prescription drugs, and health insurance coverage in the United States.
View position & sources → - Sheldon WhitehouseStated position
Introduced the bipartisan Medicare Advantage Improvement Act to curb prior-authorization delays, requiring standard approvals within 72 hours and barring automated denial algorithms.
View position & sources → - Jamie RaskinStated position
Strengthen the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by funding crisis-center follow-up services and improving the accessibility of 988, by passing the 9-8-8 Connect Act (H.R. 8122), which I introduced.
View position & sources → - Jeanne ShaheenStated position
As co-chair of the Senate Diabetes Caucus, Shaheen committed to her bipartisan INSULIN Act, which she said would finally lower the cost of insulin for diabetic patients regardless of insurance status.
View position & sources → - Susan M. CollinsStated position
Co-sponsored the bipartisan INSULIN Act, legislation she said would cap the out-of-pocket cost of insulin at $35 per month and address underlying issues in the insulin market for both insured and uninsured patients.
View position & sources → - Michael J RogersStated position
Lower prescription drug costs for Americans, including making foreign nations pay a share of the drug research-and-development costs currently borne by U.S. consumers.
View position & sources → - Gretchen WhitmerStated position
Enact a package of medical-debt protections: cap interest rates on medical debt, bar medical debt from appearing on credit reports, require hospitals to offer financial-assistance programs, and ban home liens or foreclosures over medical debt.
View position & sources → - Gretchen WhitmerStated position
Make a significant state investment to stabilize Medicaid funding so as to protect benefits and maintain coverage for eligible Michiganders amid federal cuts.
View position & sources → - Wes MooreStated position
Introduce legislation (the Vax Act) to decouple the state's vaccine authority from the federal government's, letting Maryland rely on independent medical guidance.
View position & sources → - Jon OssoffStated position
Committed to advance the bipartisan 988 Lifeline Location Improvement Act to add geolocation to the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline so emergency responders can locate people in mental-health crises more effectively.
View position & sources → - Tom ColeStated position
I will pass the Medical Student Education Authorization Act (H.R. 5428) to authorize the Medical Student Education Program through Fiscal Year 2028, funding grants that expand physician training in states with the most severe primary-care shortages.
View position & sources → - Ned LamontStated position
Committed to advance the Connecticut Option, a plan to encourage state employees, retirees, and small businesses to use higher-value hospitals in order to control health-care costs.
View position & sources → - Josh ShapiroStated position
Provide $10 million in dedicated state funding for the 988 suicide and crisis hotline — described as the first such state investment in Pennsylvania.
View position & sources → - Josh GreenStated position
Include $16.5 million in the proposed 2026 state budget to cover the cost of preserving enhanced ACA (Affordable Care Act) health-insurance tax credits.
View position & sources → - Matt MeyerStated position
Create Delaware's first medical school to train physicians to serve statewide.
View position & sources → - Tim KaineStated position
Committed to keep working toward a bipartisan extension of the ACA enhanced premium tax credits (subsidies) that lower marketplace insurance premiums.
View position & sources → - Michelle Lujan GrishamStated position
Pass a modernized civil commitment law, with the goal of moving it through the state Senate.
View position & sources → - Michelle Lujan GrishamStated position
Enact medical malpractice reform to lower the cost of care and retain health care professionals.
View position & sources → - Abigail SpanbergerStated position
Establish a cross-agency Interagency Health Financing Task Force to make healthcare spending more efficient, maximize federal funding, and reduce duplicative spending to lower healthcare costs for Virginians.
View position & sources → - Abigail SpanbergerStated position
Crack down on the pharmacy-benefit-manager 'middlemen' driving up prescription drug prices, including directing implementation of a single, Virginia-run PBM for the Medicaid pharmacy benefit.
View position & sources → - Jared PolisStated position
Take action to bring Medicaid costs to a more sustainable level while protecting access for the roughly 1.2 million Coloradans who rely on Medicaid.
View position & sources → - Dan McKeeStated position
Propose a strategic investment providing further student loan forgiveness for primary care physicians who commit to staying and working in Rhode Island.
View position & sources → - Laura KellyStated position
Use her budget to expand mental health capacity in Kansas, adding more treatment beds, more professionals, and more crisis response.
View position & sources → - Kim ReynoldsStated position
Invest $50 million in cancer screening, prevention and treatment in one year, with the potential to grow to $183 million over four years.
View position & sources → - Larry RhodenStated position
Outlined a health-care workforce plan committing to attract and retain health professionals, expand community health workers, integrate behavioral health into primary care, improve chronic disease management, and support rural facilities.
View position & sources → - Brad LittleStated position
Commit another $1 million in state funding to graduate medical education to address Idaho's physician shortage.
View position & sources → - Henry McMasterStated position
Provide $115 million to create a new National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Hospital in South Carolina.
View position & sources → - Andy BeshearStated position
Provide $100 million to lower the cost of coverage on the state's health insurance exchange.
View position & sources → - Angie CraigStated position
Lower prescription drug prices by expanding Medicare's drug-price negotiation to Americans with private insurance, increasing the number of negotiated drugs from 20 to 50 per year, and capping price increases at the rate of inflation (Lowering Drug Costs for American Families Act).
View position & sources → - Roger MarshallStated position
Enact 'The Marshall Plan' (the Lowering Healthcare Costs for Americans Act) as a comprehensive healthcare overhaul to root out fraud, force price transparency, protect vulnerable patients, and lower costs for families. Marshall introduced the bill as his proposed starting point for reform.
View position & sources → - Bernie MorenoStated position
Reform ACA subsidies through a two-year agenda (the CARE Act) aimed at bringing down health-care costs, working across party lines.
View position & sources → - Lisa Blunt RochesterStated position
Reform the Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) system through the PBM Disclosure Act, requiring PBMs and third-party administrators to disclose the compensation they receive, to help lower prescription drug costs.
View position & sources → - Lisa Blunt RochesterStated position
Introduce the Restoring Patient Protections and Affordability Act to make health care more affordable and accessible, including preventing premium spikes by extending the enhanced ACA tax credits for three years.
View position & sources → - Hakeem S. JeffriesStated position
Extend the enhanced Affordable Care Act premium tax credits for three years.
View position & sources → - Angie CraigStated position
Create a government-run public health insurance option on the ACA marketplaces and permanently extend the enhanced ACA premium tax credits (Medicare-X Choice Act).
View position & sources → - Katie Boyd BrittStated position
Reintroduced the NIH IMPROVE Act to secure dedicated funding for maternal care and mortality research, committing to improving health outcomes for women before, during, and after pregnancy.
View position & sources → - Gary C. PetersStated position
Vowed to keep fighting to strengthen the Affordable Care Act and lower health care costs, made while opposing a 2025 government-funding measure he said failed to address rising premiums.
View position & sources → - Tate ReevesStated position
Implement the state's Rural Health Transformation Program plan to expand healthcare access across rural Mississippi communities.
View position & sources → - Susan M. CollinsStated position
Reintroduced the bipartisan Ensuring Timely Access to Generics Act, which she said would lower prescription drug costs by removing barriers that delay generic drugs from reaching the market and increasing competition.
View position & sources → - Jack ReedStated position
Committed to driving down health-care costs and ensuring every Rhode Islander can buy affordable, comprehensive coverage, amid a push to extend ACA affordability measures.
View position & sources → - Lisa MurkowskiStated position
As part of a framework to avert a government shutdown, committed to propose a one-year extension of the enhanced premium tax credits and to work to build consensus for it.
View position & sources → - Ruben GallegoStated position
Pass the Capping Prescription Costs Act to cap annual out-of-pocket prescription drug costs at $2,000 for individuals and $4,000 for families with private insurance.
View position & sources → - Margaret Wood HassanStated position
Committed to combat unfair hospital facility fees by advancing bipartisan legislation requiring hospitals to use unique provider numbers for each hospital-owned clinic or office when billing patients.
View position & sources → - Lisa Blunt RochesterStated position
Advance the bipartisan Senior Savings Protection Act to protect supplemental benefit investments that help seniors make informed health decisions.
View position & sources → - Josh HawleyStated position
Continue working to reverse the future Medicaid cuts contained in the 2025 reconciliation law so they do not take effect.
View position & sources → - Thom TillisStated position
Stated he would not support the 2025 Senate reconciliation bill in its then-current form, citing projected Medicaid funding cuts to North Carolina, and called for returning to the House's Medicaid approach.
View position & sources → - Elissa SlotkinStated position
In her 'Economic War Plan' address, Slotkin called for creating a nationwide public health insurance option that any American of any age could buy into.
View position & sources → - Ron WydenStated position
Pledged to keep fighting the Medicaid and health care cuts in the 2025 Republican budget reconciliation bill until the process concluded.
View position & sources → - Christopher MurphyStated position
Advance the Choose Medicare Act, legislation he introduced to let every American and every employer buy into a Medicare option through the ACA exchanges.
View position & sources → - Christina BohannanStated position
Allow Americans of any age to buy into Medicare as an affordable public option, without forcing anyone off private insurance.
View position & sources → - Brian SchatzStated position
Enact the State Public Option Act to let states open their Medicaid programs to all residents regardless of income, creating a Medicaid-based public health insurance option.
View position & sources → - Raphael G. WarnockStated position
Continue fighting to protect Medicaid and health-care access against proposed Republican cuts affecting millions of Americans.
View position & sources → - John BarrassoStated position
Committed to strengthen and preserve the Medicaid program.
View position & sources → - Martin HeinrichStated position
Co-sponsor and advance the SMART Prices Act to expand Medicare drug price negotiation and lower prescription drug costs for seniors.
View position & sources → - Richard J. DurbinStated position
During a visit with health-care leaders in Springfield, Durbin committed to keep working against Medicaid cuts and high drug costs: "I'll continue fighting to protect Medicaid and lower the cost of prescription drugs for Illinoisans."
View position & sources → - Jack ReedStated position
Committed to working to prevent House Republican-proposed cuts to Medicaid that he said could strip health coverage from vulnerable Americans.
View position & sources → - Mazie K. HironoStated position
Pass legislation she co-introduced with Rep. Judy Chu to invest in mental health resources, combat stigma, and expand access to culturally and linguistically appropriate mental health care in Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities.
View position & sources → - Katie Boyd BrittStated position
Introduced the Access to Breast Cancer Diagnosis (ABCD) Act to require health insurers to cover follow-up diagnostic breast cancer examinations at no out-of-pocket cost to the patient.
View position & sources → - Peter WelchStated position
Pass the SMART Prices Act to expand Medicare's ability to negotiate the prices of more prescription drugs and lower costs faster, building on the Inflation Reduction Act.
View position & sources → - Katie Boyd BrittStated position
Reintroduced the CONNECT for Health Act to expand and make permanent Medicare telehealth flexibilities, stating she is committed to supporting legislation ensuring accessible healthcare regardless of zip code.
View position & sources → - Elissa SlotkinStated position
Slotkin helped introduce the Lower Drug Costs for Families Act, which she says would hold pharmaceutical companies accountable for price hikes and lower prescription drug costs.
View position & sources → - Catherine Cortez MastoStated position
Cortez Masto committed to making prescription drugs affordable, saying the job of lowering drug costs is not done and pledging to hold Big Pharma accountable so no one faces steep price hikes, via legislation with Sen. Klobuchar to penalize above-inflation price increases.
View position & sources → - Lisa MurkowskiStated position
Stated she did not and will not support cuts to Medicaid.
View position & sources → - Mark R. WarnerStated position
Introduce the Protecting Pharmacies in Medicaid Act to end the practice of 'spread pricing' by pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and lower prescription costs for patients and local pharmacies.
View position & sources → - Mark R. WarnerStated position
Introduce the Accelerating Kids' Access to Care Act to cut administrative redundancies for health care providers and ensure children get care when they need it.
View position & sources → - Edward J. MarkeyStated position
Committed to fight to expand the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security.
View position & sources → - JB PritzkerStated position
Committed to introduce the Prescription Drug Affordability Act to rein in pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and lower prescription drug costs for Illinois patients.
View position & sources → - JB PritzkerStated position
Committed to ban insurer prior authorization for all behavioral health care to stop insurers from blocking access to mental health treatment.
View position & sources → - Mitch McConnellStated position
Committed to oppose the re-litigation of proven vaccines and cures, publicly criticizing Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination to lead the Department of Health and Human Services on those grounds.
View position & sources → - Patrick MorriseyStated position
Increase Public Employees Insurance Agency (PEIA) funding by roughly $45 million in his budget so the state meets its legal obligations, and work with the Legislature on short- and long-term PEIA solutions.
View position & sources → - Patrick MorriseyStated position
Repeal West Virginia's Certificate of Need (CON) laws for health care providers.
View position & sources → - Bill CassidyStated position
Committed that, if Robert F. Kennedy Jr. were confirmed as HHS Secretary, he would use his authority as Chairman of the Senate HELP Committee to rebuff any attempt to remove the public's access to vaccines absent ironclad, causational scientific evidence.
View position & sources → - Mike BraunStated position
Lower health care costs by requiring price transparency, stopping anti-competitive practices, and ending surprise medical billing.
View position & sources → - Tony EversStated position
Pledged to fight every effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
View position & sources → - Joe LombardoStated position
Split up the Department of Health and Human Services and stand up a new Nevada Health Authority to manage Medicaid, the Health Exchange, Employee Benefits, and mental health funding.
View position & sources → - Kim ReynoldsStated position
Have Iowa apply for a federal waiver to institute work requirements for able-bodied adults on Medicaid.
View position & sources → - Andy BeshearStated position
Make safe, regulated medical cannabis available for purchase in Kentucky within 2025.
View position & sources → - Kirsten E. GillibrandStated position
Pass the 9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act to provide permanent and mandatory funding for the World Trade Center Health Program.
View position & sources → - Kelly ArmstrongStated position
Robustly fund the Free Through Recovery and Community Connect programs to expand addiction and behavioral-health services and reduce reliance on jails and prisons.
View position & sources → - Ben Ray LujánStated position
Pledged to continue his efforts to protect New Mexicans' access to health care and to lower prescription drug costs.
View position & sources → - Elizabeth WarrenStated position
Pass the Patients Before Monopolies (PBM) Act to force health insurers and pharmacy benefit managers to divest their pharmacy businesses in order to lower prescription drug costs.
View position & sources → - Cory A. BookerStated position
Booker committed to advancing the Prescription Drug Affordability and Access Act, which would establish an independent federal Bureau of Prescription Drug Affordability and Access to review and set drug prices, and to allow other producers to make a drug if a company refuses to comply with the reviewed price.
View position & sources → - Tammy BaldwinStated position
Pass the Capping Prescription Costs Act to place an annual cap on out-of-pocket prescription drug costs ($2,000 per individual / $4,000 per family) for people with private insurance.
View position & sources → - Josh HawleyStated position
Take on Big Pharma and cap the price of insulin so families pay less out of pocket.
View position & sources → - Donald J. TrumpStated position
President Trump has made absolutely clear that he will not cut one penny from Medicare or Social Security. American Citizens work hard their whole lives, contributing to Social Security and Medicare. These programs are promises to our Seniors, ensuring they can live their golden years with dignity.
View position & sources → - Bernard SandersStated position
Lower prescription drug prices so Americans pay no more than people in other major countries.
View position & sources → - Brian SchatzStated position
Make permanent the Medicare telehealth flexibilities first expanded during the pandemic, through the Telehealth Modernization Act and the CONNECT for Health Act.
View position & sources → - Laura KellyStated position
Expand Medicaid in Kansas to cover roughly 150,000 low-income Kansans (the Healthcare Access for Working Kansans / HAWK Act).
View position & sources → - Margaret Wood HassanStated position
Committed to continue working to lower prescription drug costs, including by cracking down on drug-manufacturer patent abuses that delay access to generic medications.
View position & sources → - Christopher MurphyStated position
Pursue the National Strategy for Social Connection Act, which he introduced to establish a White House Office of Social Connection Policy and a national strategy to combat loneliness.
View position & sources → - Tina SmithStated position
Committed to keep pushing the Mental Health Services for Students Act to help schools partner with local mental-health providers and place mental-health services on-site for K-12 students.
View position & sources → - Cory A. BookerStated position
Booker committed to advancing the bicameral Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act, a package of bills intended to reduce maternal mortality and eliminate racial disparities in maternal health outcomes.
View position & sources → - Amy KlobucharStated position
Pass legislation (the SMART Prices Act) to strengthen and expand Medicare's authority to negotiate lower prescription drug prices, covering more drugs and increasing the savings Medicare can negotiate.
View position & sources → - Raphael G. WarnockStated position
Pass the Capping Prescription Costs Act to cap annual out-of-pocket prescription-drug costs (at $2,000 for individuals / $4,000 for families) for people with private insurance.
View position & sources → - Gavin NewsomStated position
Newsom pledged that through the state's CalRx program, California would make insulin available at about $30 for a 10mL vial (and $55 for a five-pack of pens), a roughly 90% cut from typical prices.
View position & sources → - Tammy DuckworthStated position
Committed to pass the CARE for Long COVID Act to expand research, resources, and education for Americans living with Long COVID.
View position & sources → - Andrew R. GarbarinoStated position
Secure additional and long-term funding for the World Trade Center Health Program — through the 9/11 Responder and Survivor Health Funding Correction Act he sponsors — so 9/11 responders and survivors keep their medical monitoring and treatment.
View position & sources → - Steve PadillaStated position
Make health care more affordable and lower prescription drug costs, including lowering the cost of insulin for millions of Californians (supporting a $35/month insulin cap).
View position & sources → - Alex PadillaStated position
Make health care more affordable and lower prescription drug costs, including lowering the cost of insulin for millions of Californians (supporting a $35/month insulin cap).
View position & sources → - Tammy BaldwinStated position
Cap the out-of-pocket cost of insulin at $35 per month for Americans, by passing legislation such as the Affordable Insulin Now Act.
View position & sources → - Catherine Cortez MastoStated position
Cortez Masto committed to making lifesaving drugs like insulin affordable for all Nevadans, and introduced a bill with Sen. Rosen to cap out-of-pocket insulin costs.
View position & sources → - Charles E. SchumerStated position
Lower prescription drug costs by empowering Medicare to negotiate drug prices
View position & sources → - Chuck GrassleyStated position
Committed to passing his bipartisan, negotiated Prescription Drug Pricing Reduction Act (PDPRA) as a standalone bill to lower prescription drug costs.
View position & sources → - Christopher A. CoonsStated position
Reintroduced the bipartisan Reach Every Mother and Child (REACH) Act to strengthen U.S. global-health programs with the stated goal of ending preventable deaths of mothers, newborns, and young children in the developing world by 2030.
View position & sources → - Frank Pallone, Jr.Stated position
Empower Medicare to negotiate lower prescription drug prices and cap out-of-pocket costs for Medicare Part D enrollees, as author and lead sponsor of the Lower Drug Costs Now Act (H.R. 3), which would require federal negotiation of at least 25 brand-name drug prices (including insulin) each year.
View position & sources → - Joe BidenStated position
What I'm going to do is pass Obamacare with a public option — become Bidencare. I'm going to reduce drug prices by making sure that there's competition that doesn't exist now by allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices with the insurance companies.
View position & sources → - Dan SullivanStated position
Continue opposing single-payer 'Medicare-for-All' health care proposals.
View position & sources → - Cory A. BookerStated position
Expand access to health care and lower prescription drug costs for Americans.
View position & sources → - Gary C. PetersStated position
Committed to keep working to lower health care and prescription drug prices for Michigan families and seniors.
View position & sources → - Amy KlobucharStated position
As part of her 2020 presidential campaign's 'first 100 days' plan, pledged to immediately suspend efforts to eliminate the Affordable Care Act's protections for people with pre-existing conditions. (Made as a presidential candidate; conditional on winning the presidency.)
View position & sources → - Adam SmithStated position
Co-sponsor the State-Based Universal Health Care Act to let states establish their own universal/single-payer health care systems by streamlining federal waivers and funding.
View position & sources → - Joni ErnstStated position
Committed to repeal and replace Obamacare (the Affordable Care Act) while protecting coverage for people with pre-existing conditions.
View position & sources → - Jeff MerkleyStated position
Cosponsor and support Bernie Sanders' Medicare for All legislation to establish a single-payer national health insurance program.
View position & sources → - Ron JohnsonStated position
Committed to vote for full repeal of the Affordable Care Act, conditioned on enacting a replacement.
View position & sources → - Ted CruzStated position
Committed to continue working to unite Republicans to repeal the Affordable Care Act ('Obamacare') and enact healthcare reforms he says can lower premiums and costs.
View position & sources → - Charles E. SchumerInferred · AI analysis · 80% confidence
As sponsor of the Lower Health Care Costs Act (S.3385), which would extend the enhanced Affordable Care Act premium tax credits through 2028, Schumer's legislative record shows support for reducing the health-care costs borne by consumers — consistent with the topic's goal of lowering what Americans pay for medical care.
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