Ben Nelson on Health Care

DemocratNE

Health Care192 votes · 86.4/100 consistent

Expand coverageRestrict coverage

321 roll calls on this member’s record are tagged Health Care. 192 of them counted toward the score above: 118 toward “Expand coverage” and 74 toward “Restrict coverage”.

The other 129 did not count: 129 were roll calls whose direction on this issue could not be read confidently — mostly procedural motions — and 0 were ones 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
2001-06-27	To clarify that independent medical reviewers may not require coverage for excluded benefits and to clarify provisions relating to the independent determinations of the reviewer.S. 1052 · 107th Congress · On the Motion	Nay	Expand coverage
2001-06-27	To exempt small employers from causes of action under the Act.S. 1052 · 107th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Expand coverage
2001-06-26	To limit the application of the liability provisions of the Act if the General Accounting Office finds that the application of such provisions has increased the number of uninsured individuals.S. 1052 · 107th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Restrict coverage
2001-06-26	To exempt employers from causes of action under the Act.S. 1052 · 107th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Expand coverage
2001-06-26	A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to protect consumers in managed care plans and other health coverage.S. 1052 · 107th Congress · On the Motion	Nay	Restrict coverage
2001-06-22	To express the sense of the Senate with respect to the opportunity to participate in approved clinical trials and access to specialty care.S. 1052 · 107th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2001-06-21	To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a deduction for 100 percent of health insurance costs of self-employed individuals.S. 1052 · 107th Congress · On the Point of Order	Yea	Direction not readable
2001-06-21	A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to protect consumers in managed care plans and other health coverage.S. 1052 · 107th Congress · On the Motion to Proceed	Yea	Expand coverage
2001-05-22	To aid public health and improve water safety by providing tax-exempt bond authority to water systems to comply with the 10 parts per billion arsenic standard recommended by the National Academy of Sciences and adopted by the World Health Organization and European Union.H.R. 1836 · 107th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
2001-05-22	To delay the effective date of the reductions in the tax rate relating to the highest rate bracket until the enactment of legislation that ensures the long-term solvency of the social security and medicare trust funds.H.R. 1836 · 107th Congress · On the Motion	Nay	Direction not readable
2001-05-22	To eliminate the Medicaid death tax.H.R. 1836 · 107th Congress · On the Motion	Nay	Direction not readable
2001-05-21	To strike all marginal rate tax cuts except for the establishment of the 10 percent rate and strike all estate and gift tax provisions taking effect after 2006 in order to provide funds to strengthen social security, extend the solvency of the Social Security Trust Funds, maintain progressivity in the social security benefit system, continue to lift more seniors out of poverty, extend the solvency of the Medicare Trust Funds, and provide prescription drug benefits.H.R. 1836 · 107th Congress · On the Motion	Nay	Restrict coverage
2001-05-21	To delay the reduction of the top income tax rate for individuals until a real Medicare prescription drug benefit is enacted.H.R. 1836 · 107th Congress · On the Motion	Nay	Restrict coverage
2001-04-05	To provide tax credits for small business to purchase health insurance for their employees and to provide for the deductibility of health insurance for the self-employed and those who don't receive health insurance from their employers and for long-term care.H.Con.Res. 83 · 107th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Restrict coverage
2001-04-05	To establish a reserve fund to eliminate further cuts in medicare payments to home health agencies.H.Con.Res. 83 · 107th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Expand coverage
2001-04-05	To eliminate further cuts in Medicare payments to home health agencies.H.Con.Res. 83 · 107th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Restrict coverage
2001-04-04	To amend the congressional budget to allow for the continued transformation of the military, to fulfill congressional commitments to provide quality health care for active and retired military families, and to continue improvements in compensation, housing, and other quality of life issues.H.Con.Res. 83 · 107th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Expand coverage
2001-04-03	To establish a prescription drug benefit under Title XVIII of the Social Security Act, without using funds generated from either the Medicare or Social Security surpluses, that is voluntary; accessible to all beneficiaries; designed to assist beneficiaries with the high cost of prescription drugs, protect them from excessive out of pocket costs, and give them bargaining power in the marketplace; affordable to all beneficiaries and the program; administered using private sector entities and competitive purchasing techniques; and consistent with broader Medicare reform.H.Con.Res. 83 · 107th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Expand coverage
2001-04-03	To revise certain provisions providing for a reserve fund for prescription drugs and medicare reform in the Senate.H.Con.Res. 83 · 107th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Restrict coverage
2001-03-13	To establish a procedure to safeguard the surpluses of the Social Security and Medicare hospital insurance trust funds.S. 420 · 107th Congress · On the Motion	Nay	Direction not readable
2001-03-13	To establish an off-budget lockbox to strengthen Social Security and Medicare.S. 420 · 107th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Direction not readable

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.