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Tennessee Representatives’ Votes On the Final Health Care Reform Bill
March 24th, 2010
Thirty-four of a little over 250 Democratic representatives voted against the Senate version health care reform bill that became law Sunday night. Two of the 34 are from Tennessee: Lincoln Davis and John Tanner.
As in the November House vote, all Tennessee Republicans voted against the package: Phil Roe, John Duncan, Zack Wamp, and Marsha Blackburn.
One Representative who voted against the November house health care bill, voted in favor of the more conservative Senate bill this time. Middle Tennessee Rep. Bart Gordon, amid controversy surrounding rumor that he was offered the position of NASA administrator if he voted in favor of health care reform (a rumor for which he and the administration denies); voted for reform this time.
In a statement Gordon said:
“In the end, the question I’m faced with is this: will this reform be better for Middle Tennessee than the status quo? I think it will. That’s why I believe passing meaningful health care reform is essential and why I have made my decision to help ensure health care is affordable for Middle Tennesseans today and for generations to come.”
Despite all the ballyhoo and lambasting by liberals for months, Blue Dog Democrat Jim Cooper voted in favor of both health care bills that came to the house floor, in November and this past weekend. Memphis Rep Steve Cohon was the other of the Tennessee Contingent to vote in favor of the bill.
For his part, Democrat John Tanner, in explaining his no vote, in part wrote on his website:
“There is no question our health care system needs reform. Since the outset of this national dialogue, I have talked with many West and Middle Tennesseans about how we can identify and fix what is broken within our system. Chief among these goals is the long-term reduction in health care costs for families, employers and the government…“After thorough and careful review of the legislation, I am unconvinced that the long-term trend of rising health care costs is adequately addressed and am therefore unable to support the legislation.”
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But 400 BILLION on unconstitutional health care is ok?
Prescription Drug Benefit.
The final version (conference report) of H.R. 1 would create a prescription drug benefit for Medicare recipients. Beginning in 2006, prescription coverage would be available to seniors through private insurers for a monthly premium estimated at $35. There would be a $250 annual deductible, then 75 percent of drug costs up to $2,250 would be reimbursed. Drug costs greater than $2,250 would not be covered until out-ofpocket expenses exceeded $3,600, after which 95 percent of drug costs would be reimbursed. Low-income recipients would receive more subsidies than other seniors by paying lower premiums, having smaller deductibles, and making lower co-payments for each prescription. The total cost of the new prescription drug benefit would be limited to the $400 billion that Congress had budgeted earlier this year for the first 10 years of this new entitlement program. The House adopted the conference report on H.R. 1 on November 22, 2003 by a vote of 220 to 215 (Roll Call 669).
Marsha Blackburn Voted FOR this bill.
Marsha Blackburn is a Hypocrite.
Marsha Blackburn is my Congressman.
See her unconstitutional votes at :
http://tinyurl.com/qhayna
Mickey
Yeah, according to Republican’s it’s only socialism when goverment welfare programs, bank bail outs, and deficits as far as the eye can see are done under Democratic administrations; but that’s all fine when its done under Republican administrations and republican controlled congresses.
That’s why the Tea Party is so credible [not]. They were quiet for eight years of Bush blowing up the budget, passing massive unfunded social welfare bills, bailing out banks and wire tapping Americans. Then as soon as the presidency changed parties and skintone, then all of a sudden these people are spontaneously outraged. It’s so coincidental, I’m sure.
Yobachi,
I’ve been following blogs on this and this plan does some really good things for folks.
The biggist point that stuck out to me from those against it and that made sence was that all our other social programs we have a choice on if we want to use them and are not fined, jailed, or taxed if say like we feel medicare is not good enough and want to buy a really rich healthcare policy.
With this HC bill or law we will be fined or jailed if we don’t want to buy it because of holistic or faith based reasons and taxed extra (cadilac tax) if we want to buy what the government thinks is too much for one person. Like one blogger said it would be like being punished with tax and or jail for wanting your kid to have home school instead of public.
I get needing everyone to participate for it to work and I for one like children being able to get insurance even with pre-exsisting as I have a child with such and can’t get health insurance for him. But am still wondering if now that they can’t exclued him can they charge me a crazy amount because of it?
KimNorth, I too have a problem with the mandate. It’s going to be very hard to enforce anyway. I hope that it actually gets struck down, without the whole bill being struck down; causing congress to have to re-legislate the issue to something more sensible.
For instance, a work-in-progress thought that I have would be fining people without insurance only when they access healthcare, for over burdening the system; with a caveat that this only applies to people who were eligible capable of getting healthcare; but simply choose not to, as opposed to people who are indigent.
This would be more fair, as it would not mandate that you have to buy something just for simply being born, but instead have to pay for cost you cause. It could also be a sort of thing that can never be discharged even in bankruptcy, like student loans; and could be recaptured from any tax refunds. Therefore if you ever legally work a job under your actual social security number you can be garnished and lien-ed; and it will always follow you until you pay what you owe.