Senate Roll Call 527, 104th Congress · October 27, 1995

To prohibit balance billing by providers participating in medicare choice plans. — (SENATE TABLED KENNEDY AMENDMENT NO. 2996, TO PROHIBIT BALANCE BILLING BY PROVIDERS PARTICIPATING IN MEDICARE CHOICE PLANS.)

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table

52 yea · 47 nayMotion to Table Agreed to

Democrat1 yea · 45 nay

Republican50 yea · 1 nay

Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1357 ↗

Balanced Budget Reconciliation Act of 1995

Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — 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): Tabling kills the amendment that would have protected Medicare choice participants from balance billing.
Tagged by: keyword:medicare
Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage
Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Prohibiting provider balance billing is a consumer protection measure without direct federal budget impact.
Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance
Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (52)

Nay (47)

Not voting or present (0)

None

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