Expand access to affordable health care

Cantwell supports universal health coverage and improvements to the Affordable Care Act, including expanding the Basic Health Plan to lower premiums and out-of-pocket costs. She also supports federal investment in biomedical research and health care services, with the stated goals of lowering costs and improving care. She opposes repealing Medicaid expansion or converting Medicaid to a block grant.

Context: The Basic Health Plan expansion and research investments are stated as positions; the passage does not specify their implementation details.

In their own words

I support universal coverage

The source

Maria Cantwell: ISSUES

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