Senate Roll Call 351, 100th Congress · October 27, 1987
TO AMEND S 1127, THE CATASTROPHIC HEALTH INSURANCE ACT, TO PROVIDE CATASTROPHIC BENEFITS ON A VOLUNTARY BASIS.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Medicare Catastrophic Loss Prevention Act of 1987
Policy area: Social Welfare — assigned by Library of Congress subject specialists, not by this site.
How this vote is scored
Which tracked issues this roll call counts toward, and which way a yea vote moves a member on each. Direction is decided per issue, because one bill can push two issues opposite ways.
- Health CareA yea counts toward “Restrict coverage”
model(0.85): Making catastrophic benefits voluntary restricts the scope of universal coverage.
Tagged by: keyword:health insurance
Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (18)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Phil Gramm
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- David Kemp Karnes
- Richard G. Lugar
- James Albertus McClure
- Don Nickles
- James Danforth Quayle
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
Nay (77)
- Brockman Adams
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Kent Conrad
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Bob Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Tom Harkin
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Harry Reid
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- James Terry Sanford
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard C. Shelby
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Pete Wilson
- Timothy E. Wirth
Not voting or present (5)
- Christopher J. DoddDid not vote
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.Did not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- Samuel Augustus NunnDid not vote
- Paul Martin SimonDid not vote
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