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Elaine G. Luria

Her plan says she will build on what was done in Congress to strengthen the Affordable Care Act, reinstate the ACA tax credits, expand access to care, cut prescription drug prices, and see that Medicaid and Medicare are properly funded.

Elaine Luria for Congress

Jen A. Kiggans

Her campaign says affordability and access are among her top priorities as a nurse practitioner, that she led the bipartisan effort to renew and reform the Affordable Care Act tax credits, and that she has worked to expand Medicare coverage, improve access to virtual care, lower prescription costs and expand mental health resources.

Kiggans for Congress

Geral D. "Bishop" Staten

No stated position on health care. The only statement of his own the desk could source for this race, the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey he submitted on December 4, 2025, names affordability, public safety and equal opportunity as the policy areas he cares about and does not mention health care, insurance or prescription costs. He has no campaign website, and nothing else the desk could read — his Facebook profile and the ten reels on it, opened in a signed-in browser on September 13, 2026 — states a policy position on any subject. The search is bounded and unfinished, and the page it has not reached is the Virginia Mercury's voter guide for this contest, which is where a reader would most expect his answers; the source notes below record what was read, what was not, and why.

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J. Matt Baker

His platform names health care only as one of the costs squeezing families, in the line about bills nobody can predict, and offers no separate health-care section among its eight standalone stances or its four pillars.

Matt Baker for Congress
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Evidence timeline

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  1. Occurred Dec 17, 2025

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    Jen A. Kiggans: Matches stated record claim

    Her campaign says she led the bipartisan effort to renew and reform the Affordable Care Act tax credits and co-led a bipartisan group announcing a framework to extend premium tax credit relief. She sponsored two bills on the subject in the 119th Congress: H.R. 5145, the Bipartisan Premium Tax Credit Extension Act, on September 4, 2025, with 30 cosponsors, 16 Democrats and 14 Republicans, whose section 2 extends the enhanced credit by one year by striking "before January 1, 2026" and inserting "before January 1, 2027"; and H.R. 6575, the CommonGround for Affordable Health Care Act, on December 10, 2025, with 38 cosponsors, 23 Democrats and 15 Republicans. Both were referred to committee and neither has been reported. On December 17, 2025 the House took two recorded votes on H.R. 6703, a health bill she did not sponsor, whose sponsor is Rep. Miller-Meeks: she voted Nay on the motion to recommit, which Rep. Underwood offered to extend the enhanced premium tax credits for three years and which failed 210 to 218 (Roll Call 348), and Yea on passage, which carried 216 to 211 (Roll Call 349). The engrossed text of H.R. 6703 carries no occurrence of "premium tax credit" and none of "36B". Limit: She sponsored both bills and the cosponsors of each cross party lines, so "led" and "bipartisan" hold as descriptions of these two measures. Neither has moved out of committee and neither is law. Her opponent's platform says she voted against extending the same credits, and both sentences are true of different things: the credits she sponsored a bill to extend by one year are the credits the motion to recommit would have extended by three, and on December 17, 2025 she voted against that motion and for the bill that passed instead, whose text does not mention the credits at all. Which of those facts weighs more is a judgement this card does not make, and the card reads these votes and her two bills, not the rest of her record on health care.

    Kiggans for Congress Congress.gov Congress.gov Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives U.S. Government Publishing Office Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives U.S. Congress via Congress.gov Congress.gov
  2. Occurred Aug 12, 2022

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    Elaine G. Luria: Matches stated direction

    Her plan says she voted to slash prescription drug costs, cap out-of-pocket expenses for seniors, and cap insulin at $35 a month for seniors. She voted Yea on the motion to concur in the Senate amendment to H.R. 5376, the reconciliation act known as the Inflation Reduction Act, on August 12, 2022 (Roll Call 420, agreed to 220 to 207); it became Public Law 117-169 four days later. Earlier, on December 12, 2019, the House agreed 231 to 192 to her own amendment to H.R. 3, the Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act, clarifying that federal employee health plans are covered by the bill's price reduction provisions. Limit: The recorded votes move in the direction the statement describes. The card does not verify the specific effects she names, whose scope is a question about the text of Public Law 117-169 rather than about her votes, and it does not claim she wrote any of those provisions. Her amendment was to a different bill, which did not become law. Her words here were read in the Internet Archive's snapshot of 2026-08-03, because her campaign site returns HTTP 403 to automated readers, and the wording is unconfirmed against the live page.

    Elaine Luria for Congress Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives Congress.gov Congress.gov Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives

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