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House Roll Call 1135, 105th Congress · October 10, 1998

Medicare Home Health Care and Veterans Health Care Improvement Act — H.R.4567 BY THOMAS (R-CA) -- MEDICARE HOME HEALTH AND VETERANS HEALTH CARE IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1998 (HOUSE AGREED TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASSED H.R. 4567, AMENDED, TO AMEND TITLE XVIII OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY ACT TO MAKE REVISIONS IN THE PER BENEFICIARY AND PER VISIT PAYMENT LIMITS ON PAYMENT FOR HEALTH SERVICES UNDER THE MEDICARE PROGRAM.)

Question before the chamber: Suspend the rules and pass, as amended

412 yea · 2 nayPassed20 not voting or present
Democrat195 yea · 1 nay
Republican216 yea · 1 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4567 ↗

Medicare Home Health and Veterans Health Care Improvement Act of 1998

Policy area: Health — 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 “Expand coverage”

    model(0.85): Revises Medicare payment limits upward to protect access to home health and veterans health care.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Health

    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 (412)

Nay (2)

Not voting or present (20)

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