What Constituents Ask
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from industries she votes on. The standard constituents expect: disclose everything, refuse the money, or recuse.
Her Record
$96,495
from Ballard Spahr, her top contributor in the 2023 to 2024 cycle, plus $17,500 more from the firm's donors so far in 2025 to 2026. Her household draws salary, pension, and 401(k) benefits from the firm, whose health care practice represents health insurers.
The relationship
Before her 2018 election, Rep. Scanlon spent 15 years at Ballard Spahr, a Philadelphia-based national law firm, as its national pro bono counsel. Her husband, Mark S. Stewart, served as chair of Ballard Spahr for 12 years, stepping down at the end of 2023. He remains at the firm today as senior counsel.
Who the firm represents
Ballard Spahr's health care practice page states that the firm represents clients across the industry, including health insurance companies, self-funded and administered medical plans, and third-party payers.
The Medicare for All Act would establish a single national health insurance program administered by the federal government, replacing most of the private health insurance business those clients are in.
What the household receives
Rep. Scanlon's most recent annual financial disclosure, covering calendar year 2025 and filed with the Clerk of the House on May 7, 2026, reports three ongoing ties between her household and the firm: her husband's salary from Ballard Spahr LLP, a Ballard Spahr pension, and a Ballard 401(k) account whose largest holding is valued at more than $1,000,000. House rules require members to name the source of a spouse's salary but not the amount.
Ballard Spahr is also her top campaign contributor. Its employees gave $96,495 in the 2023–24 cycle, per OpenSecrets tallies of FEC filings. The full picture is on the Follow the Money page.
Where she stands on Medicare for All
More than 1,700 people have signed an ongoing petition asking Rep. Scanlon to co-sponsor Medicare for All. In the current Congress the bill is H.R. 3069, with 114 co-sponsors as of July 2026, including three Pennsylvania Democrats: Reps. Boyle, Deluzio, and Lee. Rep. Scanlon is not among them, and was not a co-sponsor of the prior Congress's H.R. 3421. Her office has not acknowledged the petition campaign.
The stakes of that decision are documented. Peer-reviewed research in The Lancet estimates a single-payer system would prevent about 68,000 deaths nationally every year, and the measured cost of Delaware County's own loss of hospital access, from ambulance response times to ER waits, is laid out on our Healthcare page.
What this page does and does not say
This page documents relationships and money flows found in public records. It does not assert that any vote, co-sponsorship decision, or public position was caused by them. Under House rules, none of the arrangements described here are prohibited, and members are not required to recuse themselves from votes affecting industries their families work in. The facts are presented so constituents can weigh them.
Sources: ballardspahr.com attorney and practice pages, Rep. Scanlon's calendar year 2025 financial disclosure filed with the Clerk of the House (May 7, 2026), OpenSecrets tallies of FEC filings, and Congress.gov co-sponsor records retrieved July 2026. Corrections are welcome and posted: see the correction policy.