“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.”
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Independently re-verified against primary federal sources. (1) The bill text matches the promise exactly: S.529 (119th Cong.) and S.4671 (118th Cong.), both titled 'Capping Prescription Costs Act,' cap private-plan prescription cost-sharing at '$2,000 per year for each enrolled individual, or $4,000 per year for each family' beginning in 2026, indexed thereafter to the medical-care CPI. (2) Baldwin's role is ORIGINAL COSPONSOR of both — confirmed in the govinfo bill text ('Mr. Warnock (for himself, Ms. Baldwin, ...)') and in the govinfo BILLSTATUS records, which list her as an original cosponsor on both bills. She is NOT the lead sponsor: Sen. Casey led S.4671, Sen. Warnock led S.529. (3) Neither bill advanced. The complete action history for each is exactly two entries — 'Introduced in Senate' and 'Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions' (July 11, 2024 for S.4671; February 11, 2025 for S.529). No hearing, markup, or floor vote, so there was never a roll call for her to cast. (4) No private-insurance out-of-pocket cap has been enacted; the existing $2,000 cap is the Inflation Reduction Act's Medicare Part D cap, which predates this 2024 promise and does not cover private insurance, so nothing of the promise has been delivered (rules out FULL/PARTIAL). Applying the same standard to any party: repeated original cosponsorship of a bill that died in committee is a genuine effort that did not land — ATTEMPTED. It is NOT CHAMPIONED, because being one of ten original cosponsors is not leading or driving the effort; no evidence was found that Baldwin sponsored the bill, forced a hearing, or otherwise drove it. It is not IGNORED (she acted twice) and not NO_OPPORTUNITY (she had and used the cosponsorship opportunity). Source check: all cited URLs are live and accurate except the congress.gov all-actions page, which returns HTTP 403 to automated fetches (real page, bot-blocked); its content is substantiated instead by the govinfo BILLSTATUS records cited below. No invented or misquoted source found; the prior rating stands.
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