Detail for 2017 Senate Roll Call Vote 179

Vote Date: 28-Jul-2017
Yeas : Nays: 49 : 51

Our Congress Position Report shows how every member voted during this vote.

Information about the vote from special interest groups and other information providers in our Report Cards:

Friends Committee on National Legislation

"Skinny Repeal" of the Affordable Care Act.

McConnell, R-Ky., amendment no. 667, to the McConnell substitute amendment no. 267, that would repeal the individual mandate, repeal the employer mandate through 2024, delay the implementation of the medical device tax through 2020, and block, for one year, federal funding from going to certain medical providers that provide abortions. The amendment would ease the waiver process for states to opt out of the requirement that their health insurance providers include certain benefits on their health care plans. Additionally, the amendment would increase the maximum allowable contribution to health savings accounts and would defund the Prevention and Public Health Fund starting in 2019.

National Taxpayers Union

s2017-179.

Family Research Council

“Skinny” Obamacare Repeal.

Offered by Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the Health Care Freedom Act of 2017, contained in this amendment (S.Amdt. 667 to S.Amdt. 267) to the American Health Care Act of 2017 (H.R. 1628), would have more narrowly repealed Obamacare by only eliminating its individual and employer health insurance mandates. This amendment would also have eliminated mandatory federal funding for one year for certain large abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood.

AFL-CIO

Repeal and Replace Obamacare (H.R. 1628).

U.S. Chamber of Commerce

The American Health Care Act of 2017 H.R. 1628.

This group supports the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 (BCRA). It has long been committed to preserving and improving the employer-sponsored health care system while also ensuring that those outside the employer-based system have access to multiple, affordable options for coverage.

While the employer-sponsored system continues to grow and innovate, other insurance markets are deteriorating under the burdensome costs and requirements of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In particular, the individual insurance markets are on the verge of collapse, premiums are skyrocketing, and, in many parts of the country, patient choice is dwindling or disappearing altogether.

Senate passage of BCRA is a crucial step in the process to reform these failing markets. It will provide millions of Americans outside of the employer-based system with more options for coverage at lower costs.

Further, the bill includes the following key provisions, which this group strongly supports:

The BCRA will repeal the most egregious taxes and mandates of the ACA, which will help lower the cost of health care coverage and allow employers to create jobs. The bill repeals the medical device tax that unfairly penalizes American manufacturers, and zeros out the employer mandate penalties.
The bill would help stabilize the fragile individual insurance markets by infusing states with more funding and empowering them with greater flexibility. In addition to providing critical funding for the Cost Sharing Reduction program for two years, the bill provides significant funding over multiple years explicitly for states to utilize to best serve their individual market and help their consumers. This “laboratory-ofdemocracy” approach offers the best opportunity to bring down premiums, promote consumer choice, and reduce patients’ out-of-pocket costs.
Finally, the bill would help preserve the employer-sponsored health care system that 177 million Americans depend on for quality coverage. It eases limitations and restrictions on tax preferred accounts funded by employers and individuals to help pay for health care services and items. It also allows employers to offer greater variation in benefits to employees.

While thus group recognizes that further improvements can—and must—be made, passage of this legislation is vital to restoring choice, flexibility, and innovation to America’s health care markets and growth to our economy.

NARAL Pro-Choice America

ACA Repeal and Attack on Planned Parenthood.

Health Care Freedom Act of 2017, H.R.1628. McConnell (R-KY) Amendment to FY’17 budget reconciliation legislation to defund Planned Parenthood and to eliminate the Affordable Care Act requirement to have health insurance. (Some anti-choice lawmakers cast what appear to be pro-choice votes; most observers recognize that those votes were cast for reasons unrelated to reproductive health.) Failed.

National Education Association

“SKINNY” REPEAL OF THE ACA.

This group opposed an amendment by Senator McConnell (R-KY) to the American Health Care Act of 2017 (H.R. 1628) which would repeal specific aspects, referred to as “skinny repeal”, of the Affordable Care Act. The CBO estimated that 16 million Americans would lose health insurance under this plan. The amendment was defeated.

National Catholic Social Justice Lobby

“Skinny” Affordable Care Act Repeal (S.Amdt. 667 to S.Amdt. 267 to H.R. 1628).

This group opposed this ill-conceived attempt to pass a last-minute, partial ACA repeal bill in the Senate in order to get the bill to conference negotiations. Rejected.

Citizens Against Government Waste

Health Care Marketplace Overhaul -- 2010 Health Care Overhaul Repeal.

Alliance for Retired Americans

Health Care Repeal.

The Senate voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act. This legislation repeals the individual and employer mandate and allows states to apply for waivers from the ACA regulations. It will leave 15 million Americans uninsured and will increase premiums by 20 percent. The bill failed. H.R. 1628.

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