To ensure that any savings associated with legislation that authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to use the collective purchasing power of 40,000,000 Medicare beneficiaries to negotiate the best possible prices for prescription drugs provided through part D of title XVIII of the Social Security Act in fallback plans, by private drug plans (if asked) and in other circumstances, but not permitting a uniform formulary or price setting, is reserved for deficit reduction of to improve the Medicare drug benefit.

The measure

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(0.90): Voting yes allows drug price negotiations and reserves savings to improve Medicare drug benefits.

  Tagged by: keyword:medicare

  Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage

• Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

  excluded:model-unclear (0.85) The measure allocates savings to both deficit reduction and benefit improvements.

  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.