Election 2026

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Issue record

Health care

In short

Nunn's campaign page lists no health-care position; in posts he says funding he fought for went to rural hospitals and Iowa health care. Trone Garriott's campaign backs letting Medicare negotiate drug prices, extending Affordable Care Act tax credits and reversing this year's Medicaid cuts. On the record, Trone Garriott sponsored or cosponsored Iowa bills on insulin, drug costs, cancer screening and school mental health care; none reached a floor vote.

Campaign positions

What each campaign says.

Zach Nunn

His campaign issues page states no position on health care; its national defense section lists mental health beside veterans, active military and military families. In his own posts he says money he fought for brought $50 billion to rural hospitals and $2 million to double a county dialysis center, and $209 million for health care in Iowa to keep physicians local and train doctors and nurses.

Sarah Trone Garriott

Her campaign says she would let Medicare negotiate prescription drug prices, extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits, reverse this year's Medicaid cuts, let more Iowans reach Medicare earlier, and expand mental health and substance use treatment and support for rural providers.

Evidence timeline

What the record shows.

  1. official action

    Sarah Trone Garriott: Matches stated direction

    She sponsored or cosponsored Iowa bills on insulin coverage, drug affordability, cancer screening and school mental health care, and none reached a floor vote.

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    Her campaign says health care should be affordable and available when people need it. 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.

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  1. Issueshttps://zachnunn.com/issues/

    Zach Nunn for Congress · Reviewed Sep 10, 2026

    Campaign-controlled platform text, fetched live 2026-09-10 (HTTP 200).

    candidate statement

    For: Zach Nunn: campaign position

  2. @NunnForCongress on X, 2026-09-03https://x.com/NunnForCongress/status/2095579870344650788

    X · Published Sep 3, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 10, 2026

    Public post from the account Nunn's campaign site links to.

    social profile

    For: Zach Nunn: campaign position

  3. @NunnForCongress on X, 2026-08-29https://x.com/NunnForCongress/status/2093823577158193243

    X · Published Aug 29, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 10, 2026

    Public post from the account Nunn's campaign site links to.

    social profile

    For: Zach Nunn: campaign position

  4. Where I Stand: Health care that's affordable and there when you need ithttps://sarahforiowa.com/issue/health-care-thats-affordable-and-there-when-you-need-it/

    Sarah for Iowa · Reviewed Sep 10, 2026

    The campaign's own issue page, read from the Internet Archive snapshot of September 4, 2026, because the live site returns HTTP 403 to automated readers. Snapshot: http://web.archive.org/web/20260904190055/https://sarahforiowa.com/issue/health-care-thats-affordable-and-there-when-you-need-it/.

    candidate statement

    For: Sarah Trone Garriott: campaign position

  5. Issueshttps://sarahforiowa.com/issues/

    Sarah for Iowa · Reviewed Sep 11, 2026

    The campaign's own issues page. Its wording was read from the Internet Archive snapshot of 4 September 2026 because the live site returns HTTP 403 to automated readers, and the owner then opened the live page in a browser on 11 September 2026 and captured it: all twelve issue headings, the introduction and the biography sentence are identical to the snapshot. The twelve individual issue pages this page links to have not been confirmed live.

    candidate statement

    For: Sarah Trone Garriott: Matches stated direction

  6. Senate File 63 (2025), Iowa cancer research programhttps://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/billTracking/billHistory?ga=91&billName=SF63

    Iowa Legislature · Published Jan 16, 2025 · Reviewed Sep 10, 2026

    One of fifteen Senate sponsors; referred to Health and Human Services, subcommittee including Trone Garriott, no further action.

    official legislative record

    For: Sarah Trone Garriott: Matches stated direction

  7. Bills and resolutions listing Senator Trone Garriott as sponsor or floor managerhttps://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/findLegislation/findBillBySponsorOrManager?ga=91&pid=30551

    Iowa Legislature · Reviewed Sep 10, 2026

    The Legislature's find-a-bill-by-sponsor-or-floor-manager search for her, covering the 89th, 90th and 91st General Assemblies: 61, 74 and 88 entries, 223 in all. The list carries the bill descriptions the Legislature publishes rather than short titles.

    official legislative record

    For: Sarah Trone Garriott: Matches stated direction