Health care: affordability and access
What they say
Her campaign says health care should be affordable and available when people need it.
“Health care that’s affordable and there when you need it”
In their own words, dated
“In Congress, I will fight to stop the corruption in Washington, make life more affordable, and restore healthcare access, and end this war.”
What the record shows ·
She is among the Senate sponsors of an Iowa cancer research program (Senate File 63, 2025), prescription-drug affordability (Senate File 264, 2025), insulin coverage (Senate File 209, 2025) and lung-cancer screening coverage (Senate File 417, 2025), and she is the sole sponsor of a second insulin-coverage bill (Senate File 2322, 2026) and of a bill on Medicaid and children's health insurance coverage for mental health services in school-based settings (Senate File 478, 2025). Each was introduced and referred to committee; none advanced.
Limit: These are state bills in the minority caucus, two of them hers alone and the rest with other sponsors, and none reached a floor vote. The card does not weigh whether any of them would have the effect the platform describes.