Senate Roll Call 1121, 95th Congress · October 12, 1978
TO AMEND H.R. 5285 BY ELIMINATING THE "PERCENTAGE ARRANGEMENT" SYSTEM THAT IS NOW USED WIDELY TO COMPENSATE THE INCOMES OF HOSPITAL-BASED ANESTHESIOLOGISTS, PATHOLOGISTS, AND RADIOLOGISTS.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Medicare-Medicaid Administrative and Reimbursement Reform Act
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International 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 CareDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Physician compensation arrangements do not directly expand or restrict healthcare coverage.
Tagged by: keyword:hospital
Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage
- TradeDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Physician compensation policy is unrelated to trade policy.
Tagged by: policy-area:Foreign Trade and International Finance
Axis: Protectionist ← → Free trade
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (79)
- James George Abourezk
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Clifford Philip Case
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- James Oliver Eastland
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paul Gerhart Hatfield
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Henry John Heinz III
- Kaneaster Hodges Jr.
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Muriel Buck Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Richard G. Lugar
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- George Stanley McGovern
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (10)
Not voting or present (11)
- Maryon Pittman AllenDid not vote
- Richard Clarence ClarkDid not vote
- Pete V. DomeniciDid not vote
- Floyd Kirk HaskellDid not vote
- William Dodd HathawayDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- Thomas James McIntyreDid not vote
- William Lloyd ScottDid not vote
- John Goodwin TowerDid not vote
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.Did not vote
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