(H.R. 4872) On a motion to table (kill) an amendment that would have repealed the health care reform legislation signed into law by President Obama.
senate Roll Call 84
Mar 24, 2010
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This was ostensibly a vote on a motion to table (kill) an amendment by Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) that would have repealed all of the health care reform legislation already signed into law by President Obama. (That measure imposed a requirement that most Americans have health insurance, added 15 million people to the Medicaid rolls, provided funding to subsidize the purchase of private health insurance coverage for low- and middle-income people, and prohibited insurance companies from refusing coverage because of “pre-existing conditions.” It also place a 40% tax on high-cost insurance plans -- or those plans that worth more than $27,500 for families, and $10,200 for individuals.) The measure Vitter sought to amend was a “companion bill” making a number of changes to health care reform legislation already signed into law by President Obama. The underlying context was that Republicans were trying to attach amendments to the companion bill in order to send it back the House, where it had passed by a narrow margin. CNN reported that Republicans had chosen to offer a slew of amendments in order to “undermine the measure,” while the Associated Press characterized the amendments as “a final drive to thwart President Barack Obama's health care remake.” |
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