Mel Martinez on Health Care

RepublicanFL

Health Care64 votes · 78.5/100 consistent

Expand coverageRestrict coverage

104 roll calls on this member’s record are tagged Health Care. 64 of them counted toward the score above: 29 toward “Expand coverage” and 35 toward “Restrict coverage”.

The other 40 did not count: 39 were roll calls whose direction on this issue could not be read confidently — mostly procedural motions — and 1 was one they did not cast a yea or nay on. They are listed below anyway, marked as not scored, because a filtered list of votes is not a voting record.

Date	What was voted on	Voted	Counted as
2005-03-17	To ensure that any savings associated with legislation that provides the Secretary of Health and Human Services with the authority to participate in the negotiation of contracts with manufacturers of covered part D drugs to achieve the best possible prices for such drugs under part D of title XVIII of the Social Security Act, that requires the Secretary to negotiate contracts with manufacturers of such drugs for each fallback prescription drug plan, and that requires the Secretary to participate in the negotiation for a contract for any such drug upon the request of a prescription drug plan or an MA-PD plan, is reserved for reducing expenditures under such part.S.Con.Res. 18 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Direction not readable
2005-03-17	To create a reserve fund for the establishment of a Bipartisan Medicaid Commission to consider and recommend appropriate reforms to the Medicaid program, and to strike Medicaid cuts to protect states and vulnerable populations.S.Con.Res. 18 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Restrict coverage
2005-03-17	To express the sense of the Senate regarding Medicaid reconciliation legislation consistent with recommendations from the Secretary of Health and Human Services.S.Con.Res. 18 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2005-02-17	A bill to prohibit discrimination on the basis of genetic information with respect to health insurance and employment.S. 306 · 109th Congress · On Passage of the Bill	Yea	Expand coverage

Sorted newest first. “Counted as” is which end of the Expand coverage / Restrict coverage axis the vote moved this member toward, using the direction recorded for this issue on that roll call. Open any row to see the full measure, the tally, and the reason that direction was assigned.