S. 3101 - Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008
Health policy. 110th Congress (2007-2008) View bill details
- Sponsor:
- Max Baucus
- Summary:
- Status:
- The bill has passed through committee and has been put on a legislative calendar.
- Amendments:
- 2 proposed amendments. View amendments
There have been no votes on passage on this bill.
Other Votes:
Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008
S. 3101 — 110th Congress (2007–2008)
- Summary
- A bill to amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to extend expiring provisions under the Medicare program, to improve beneficiary access to preventive and mental health services, to enhance low-income benefit programs, and to maintain access to care in rural areas, including pharmacy access, and for other purposes. (by CRS)
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- Title
- A bill to amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to extend expiring provisions under the Medicare program, to improve beneficiary access to preventive and mental health services, to enhance low-income benefit programs, and to maintain access to care in rural areas, including pharmacy access, and for other purposes.
- Other Titles
- Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008
- Sponsor
- Max Baucus
- Co-Sponsors
- Subjects
- Health policy
- Access to health care
- Accreditation (Medical care)
- Afghanistan
- Aged
- Aid to dependent children
- Ambulances
- Ambulatory care
- Anesthetics
- Armed forces
- Armed forces reserves
- Budgets
- Business
- Capitation (Medical care)
- Cardiovascular diseases
- Cash welfare block grants
- Children
- Chronically ill
- Coinsurance
- Community health services
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Defense policy
- Diabetes
- Disabled
- Drugs
- Education
- Electronic data interchange
- Emergency management
- Families
- Federal aid to health facilities
- Finance
- Government trust funds
- Health information systems
- Health insurance
- Higher education
- Hospital rates
- Hospitals
- Imaging systems in medicine
- Insurance premiums
- Iraq
- Iraq compilation
- Kidney diseases
- Lung diseases
- Marketing
- Medicaid
- Medical care
- Medical education
- Medical fees
- Medical statistics
- Medically uninsured
- Medicare
- Medicine
- Medigap
- Mental health services
- Middle East and North Africa
- Military operations
- Minorities
- Minority health
- Performance measurement
- Physicians
- Prescription pricing
- Preventive medicine
- Public contracts
- Quality of care
- Rural affairs
- Rural health
- Self-help devices for the disabled
- Sexual abstinence
- South Asia
- State and local government
- Subsidies
- Technology
- Telecommunication
- Veterans
- Veterans' medical care
- Welfare
- Related Bills
- Major Actions
Introduced 6/06/2008 Amendments (2 proposed) - Bill History
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Chamber/Committee Motion Date Result select this vote Senate Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to Consider S. 3101 6/12/2008 This motion DID NOT PASS the Senate 54 voted YES 39 voted NO 7 voted present/not votingAction Date Description Introduced 6/06/2008 6/06/2008 Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time. Pursuant to the order of the Senate of June 6, 2008. Put on a legislative calendar 6/09/2008 Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 772. 6/10/2008 Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate. 6/10/2008 Cloture motion on the motion to proceed to the measure presented in Senate. 6/10/2008 Motion to proceed to consideration of measure withdrawn in Senate. 6/11/2008 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5467-5468) 6/12/2008 Motion to proceed to measure considered in Senate. 6/12/2008 Motion to proceed to consideration of measure withdrawn in Senate. 6/12/2008 Motion by Senator Reid to reconsider the vote by which cloture was not invoked on the motion to proceed to the measure [Record Vote Number 149] made in Senate. select this vote Vote 6/12/2008 Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to Consider S. 3101 Number Sponsor Date Offered Status S. Amdt. 4980 Nelson, Bill [D-FL] June 12, 2008 Offered on June 11, 2008. Amendment information not available.
S. Amdt. 4981 Reid, Harry [D-NV] June 12, 2008 Offered on June 11, 2008. Amendment information not available.
Total contributions given to Senators from interest groups that…
supported this bill
opposed this bill
| Other physician specialists (split) |
Includes reported contributions to congressional campaigns of Senators in office during the 110th U.S. Congress, from interest groups invested in the vote according to MapLight, January 1, 2003 – December 31, 2008.
Contributions data source: OpenSecrets.org
Contributions data source: OpenSecrets.org
Contributions by Legislator
Name | Party | State | $ From Interest Groups That Supported | $ From Interest Groups That Opposed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daniel K. Akaka | D | HI | $35,550 | $0 |
| Andrew Lamar Alexander | R | TN | $141,550 | $0 |
| Alan Wayne Allard | R | CO | $0 | $0 |
| John Barrasso | R | WY | $135,350 | $0 |
| Max Baucus | D | MT | $332,630 | $0 |
| Birch "Evan" Bayh | D | IN | $122,950 | $0 |
| Bob Bennett | R | UT | $30,500 | $0 |
| Joe Biden | D | DE | $100,500 | $0 |
| Jesse "Jeff" Bingaman | D | NM | $118,430 | $0 |
| Christopher "Kit" Bond | R | MO | $158,444 | $0 |
| Barbara Boxer | D | CA | $144,970 | $0 |
| Sherrod Brown | D | OH | $364,957 | $0 |
| Sam Brownback | R | KS | $54,800 | $0 |
| Jim Bunning | R | KY | $107,500 | $0 |
| Richard Burr | R | NC | $290,207 | $0 |
| Robert Byrd | D | WV | $53,725 | $0 |
| Maria Cantwell | D | WA | $122,351 | $0 |
| Ben Cardin | D | MD | $254,952 | $0 |
| Tom Carper | D | DE | $33,370 | $0 |
| Bob Casey | D | PA | $199,450 | $0 |
| Clarence Saxby Chambliss | R | GA | $276,135 | $0 |
| Hillary Clinton | D | NY | $607,169 | $0 |
| Tom Coburn | R | OK | $265,757 | $0 |
| William Thad Cochran | R | MS | $39,050 | $0 |
| Norm Coleman | R | MN | $266,015 | $0 |
| Susan M. Collins | R | ME | $156,569 | $0 |
| Gaylord Kent Conrad | D | ND | $114,883 | $0 |
| Bob Corker | R | TN | $414,092 | $0 |
| John Cornyn | R | TX | $428,098 | $0 |
| Larry Craig | R | ID | $0 | $0 |
| Mike Crapo | R | ID | $45,852 | $0 |
| Jim DeMint | R | SC | $288,947 | $0 |
| Chris Dodd | D | CT | $72,350 | $0 |
| Mary Elizabeth Dole | R | NC | $155,330 | $0 |
| Pete Domenici | R | NM | $17,750 | $0 |
| Byron Dorgan | D | ND | $36,000 | $0 |
| Dick Durbin | D | IL | $181,475 | $0 |
| John Ensign | R | NV | $161,850 | $0 |
| Mike Enzi | R | WY | $50,800 | $0 |
| Russ Feingold | D | WI | $224,239 | $0 |
| Dianne Feinstein | D | CA | $112,250 | $0 |
| Lindsey Graham | R | SC | $113,262 | $0 |
| Chuck Grassley | R | IA | $281,251 | $0 |
| Judd Gregg | R | NH | $62,700 | $0 |
| Chuck Hagel | R | NE | $13,600 | $0 |
| Tom Harkin | D | IA | $252,099 | $0 |
| Orrin G. Hatch | R | UT | $90,000 | $0 |
| Kay Bailey Hutchison | R | TX | $186,249 | $0 |
| Jim Inhofe | R | OK | $64,863 | $0 |
| Dan Inouye | D | HI | $27,550 | $0 |
| Johnny Isakson | R | GA | $151,900 | $0 |
| Tim Johnson | D | SD | $146,429 | $0 |
| Ted Kennedy | D | MA | $114,175 | $0 |
| John F. Kerry | D | MA | $96,608 | $0 |
| Amy Klobuchar | D | MN | $87,270 | $0 |
| Herb Kohl | D | WI | $0 | $0 |
| Jon Kyl | R | AZ | $392,072 | $0 |
| Mary L. Landrieu | D | LA | $209,792 | $0 |
| Frank R. Lautenberg | D | NJ | $75,200 | $0 |
| Patrick J. Leahy | D | VT | $26,150 | $0 |
| Carl Levin | D | MI | $85,750 | $0 |
| Joe Lieberman | I | CT | $245,970 | $0 |
| Blanche Lincoln | D | AR | $215,949 | $0 |
| Dick Lugar | R | IN | $36,950 | $0 |
| Mel Martinez | R | FL | $247,962 | $0 |
| John McCain | R | AZ | $48,250 | $0 |
| Claire McCaskill | D | MO | $173,800 | $0 |
| Addison "Mitch" McConnell | R | KY | $442,525 | $0 |
| Bob Menéndez | D | NJ | $231,050 | $0 |
| Barbara A. Mikulski | D | MD | $71,400 | $0 |
| Lisa Murkowski | R | AK | $92,900 | $0 |
| Patty Murray | D | WA | $73,838 | $0 |
| Earl "Ben" Nelson | D | NE | $115,874 | $0 |
| Clarence "Bill" Nelson | D | FL | $235,344 | $0 |
| Barack Obama | D | IL | $225,163 | $0 |
| Mark L. Pryor | D | AR | $100,395 | $0 |
| John "Jack" Reed | D | RI | $54,150 | $0 |
| Harry Reid | D | NV | $221,050 | $0 |
| Charles "Pat" Roberts | R | KS | $161,500 | $0 |
| John "Jay" Rockefeller | D | WV | $138,500 | $0 |
| Ken Salazar | D | CO | $176,093 | $0 |
| Bernie Sanders | I | VT | $58,246 | $0 |
| Chuck Schumer | D | NY | $151,070 | $0 |
| Jeff Sessions | R | AL | $66,050 | $0 |
| Richard C. Shelby | R | AL | $16,800 | $0 |
| Gordon Smith | R | OR | $171,750 | $0 |
| Olympia J. Snowe | R | ME | $63,975 | $0 |
| Arlen Specter | D | PA | $454,741 | $0 |
| Debbie Stabenow | D | MI | $237,403 | $0 |
| Ted Stevens | R | AK | $45,300 | $0 |
| John Sununu | R | NH | $68,975 | $0 |
| Jon Tester | D | MT | $65,993 | $0 |
| John Thune | R | SD | $203,216 | $0 |
| David Vitter | R | LA | $314,306 | $0 |
| George Voinovich | R | OH | $243,824 | $0 |
| John Warner | R | VA | $0 | $0 |
| Jim Webb | D | VA | $65,495 | $0 |
| Sheldon Whitehouse | D | RI | $65,972 | $0 |
| Roger F. Wicker | R | MS | $170,525 | $0 |
| Ron Wyden | D | OR | $89,350 | $0 |
