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House Roll Call 448, 109th Congress · July 28, 2005

To improve patient access to health care services and provide improved medical care by reducing the excessive burden the liability system places on the health care delivery system

Question before the chamber: On Passage

230 yea · 194 nayPassed9 not voting or present
Democrat14 yea · 184 nay
Republican216 yea · 9 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5 ↗

Help Efficient, Accessible, Low-cost, Timely Healthcare (HEALTH) Act of 2005

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 CareDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.80) Medical liability caps reform tort law rather than directly expanding or restricting health coverage.

    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 (230)

Nay (194)

Not voting or present (9)

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