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ChampionedHealth Care - Medicare & Medicaid

Continue to fight efforts to privatize or cut benefits in Medicare and Medicaid, and work to protect and strengthen both programs.

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ChampionedFact-checker reviewConfidence: 87%

All three cited sources are reachable and substantiate the CHAMPIONED rating for this promise. (1) The Senate roll call (PRIMARY) confirms exactly: S.Amdt. 667 to S.Amdt. 267 to H.R. 1628 (AHCA 2017), July 28, 2017, rejected 49-51, Baldwin voted Nay — the "skinny repeal" defensive vote; quote verified verbatim. (2) The Fox News article (REPUTABLE_SECONDARY) documents Baldwin proactively introducing a tranche of amendments to protect Medicaid access/funding "for senior citizens, children, people suffering from drug addiction, Americans in rural areas and pregnant women" — the core clause matches the cited source verbatim (the rating's quote is a lightly reconstructed composite using ellipses, but nothing is fabricated and the load-bearing clause is exact). (3) Baldwin's own press release (PRIMARY) confirms the Medicare and Medicaid Protection Act's provisions nearly verbatim: a budget point of order against raising Medicare eligibility age, privatizing/voucherizing Medicare, and against block-granting Medicaid or rolling back ACA expansion. Together these show leadership beyond a single vote — sponsoring shield legislation and personally forcing recorded amendment votes — which meets the CHAMPIONED bar. The promise is an ongoing-effort pledge ("continue to fight," "work to protect and strengthen"), so the mixed legislative outcomes do not undercut it. I applied the same standard I would for the opposing party; the evidence is not overstated.

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