Sherrod Brown
His campaign says insurers should be banned from denying care a patient's doctor says is needed and fined for denying claims, and that drug companies should not be allowed to charge Americans more than people in other countries.
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Issue record
Health insurance and drug costs
Campaign positions remain attributed. Official actions are shown separately, with narrow relationship labels and limits.
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Campaign positions
What each campaign says.
Jon Husted
His office says his Accountability for Better Care Act would extend the enhanced ACA premium tax credits for two years with changes to reduce fraud and lower premiums, and promotes his over-the-counter drug bill as making medicines more affordable.
Greg Levy
His platform calls for a universal single-payer health system, free at the point of use.
William B. Redpath
His campaign says Medicare should pay enrollees in cash rather than paying providers, with more for those with lower lifetime incomes and worse health, and that Medicaid should pass to the states as federal subsidies phase out over ten years.
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Evidence timeline
Where statements meet the record.
official action
Jon Husted: Matches stated record claim
His office says he brought his bill to extend the enhanced ACA premium tax credits for two years, with reforms, to the Senate floor for passage by unanimous consent, and that it was blocked. He introduced S. 3391, the Accountability for Better Care Act of 2025, on December 9, 2025; its text moves the end of the enhanced premium tax credits from the start of 2026 to the start of 2028. On December 10 he asked unanimous consent that it be passed, and an objection was heard (Congressional Record, page S8598). The next day he voted Yea on cloture on proceeding to S. 3386, a bill to give certain enrollees a health savings account contribution, and Nay on cloture on proceeding to S. 3385, a bill to extend the enhanced credit; both failed, 51 to 48 (Roll Calls 643 and 644). Limit: The record bears out what his office describes: his bill, his request and the objection. It also shows that the next day he voted against beginning debate on a different bill to extend the same credits, which the release does not mention. A vote against proceeding to one bill is not a vote against extending the credits in every form.
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Jon Husted: Matches stated record claim
His office says his bipartisan SMART OTC Act was signed into law, making it easier for families to get more affordable over-the-counter medicines. He introduced S. 2529 on July 30, 2025, with Senator Hassan; it sets a process for meetings with the Food and Drug Administration before an application to switch a drug from prescription to over-the-counter status. The bill was referred to committee, and its text was enacted, with some changes in wording, as section 6507 of Public Law 119-37, the continuing appropriations act signed on November 12, 2025; the meeting-request provision is word for word the same in both. Limit: It became law as one section of a funding act, not as a bill of its own, and some wording changed on the way. The introduced bill carries no short title; SMART OTC Act is his office's name for it. Whether the change makes medicines more affordable is a prediction the record does not test.
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Jon Husted: Matches stated record claim
His office says he fought to support the creation of the Rural Health Transformation Fund. Section 71401 of Public Law 119-21 created the Rural Health Transformation Program and appropriated $10,000,000,000 a year for fiscal years 2026 through 2030 for allotments to states. He voted Yea on the law's Senate passage (Roll Call 372). On July 2, 2025, the chief executives of four rural Ohio health systems wrote to him and Senator Bernie Moreno thanking them for "tireless work behind the scenes" to direct funding to Ohio's rural hospitals; the letter does not name the fund. After the law was enacted, his office says, he led a letter from Ohio's congressional delegation on December 19, 2025 supporting the state's application to the fund. Limit: He voted for the law that created the fund, which is one section of it. The hospital chiefs' letter thanks him for work on rural hospital funding but does not name the fund. The delegation letter came after the fund existed. What he did in the talks, which "fought" describes, is not something a roll call records.
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Sherrod Brown: Matches stated record claim
His campaign says he successfully fought to cap the cost of insulin and to reduce the price of other prescription drugs for Ohio seniors. He voted Yea on Senate passage of H.R. 5376, the Inflation Reduction Act, in the sitting of August 6, 2022, which ran into August 7; the Senate divided 50 to 50 and the Vice President's vote carried it (Roll Call 325). It became Public Law 117-169. Section 11406 sets cost-sharing for insulin under Medicare Part D, and section 11001 begins Medicare negotiation of prices for certain high-priced drugs. In the same sitting he voted Yea to keep a wider $35 insulin cap, which Senator Murray said would help "not just seniors but workers and students"; it got 57 votes, short of the 60 needed, and the language was struck (Roll Call 314). In 2022 he also cosponsored Senator Raphael Warnock's Affordable Insulin Now Act, S. 3700, which would have limited what patients pay for insulin in private health plans as well as Medicare; it did not pass. Limit: The cap that became law applies to Medicare, which is what "for Ohio seniors" says; the wider cap he also voted for failed. The bill passed on an evenly divided vote, so each of the fifty votes for it was needed. What a senator did beyond voting, which "fought" implies, is not something a roll call records.
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