Information about the vote from special interest groups and other information providers in our Report Cards:
Friends Committee on National Legislation
Medical Savings Accounts (MSAs).
Baucus (MT) motion to table (block) the Craig (ID) amendment to Patients’ Rights bill. The Craig amendment would express the sense of the Senate to lift current restrictions on MSAs. Motion agreed to.American Conservative Union
Medical Savings Accounts.
Baucus (D-MT) motion to kill the Craig (R-ID) amendment to the Patients’ Rights Bill that would express the sense of the Senate that a patients’ rights bill should remove restrictions on the private sector medical savings account demonstration program. Baucus’s position prevailed.Republican Liberty Caucus (Civil Liberty)
Patients Bill of Rights/MSAs.
To table an amendment to express the sense of the Senate that the bill should remove restrictions on MSAs.Citizens Against Government Waste
S. 1052: Patients' Rights - Medical Savings Accounts (MSAs).
The Senate rejected the amendment offered by Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) to expand MSAs.Eagle Forum
Patients Bill of Rights.
Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID) introduced an amendment to the Patients Bill of Rights (S. 1052) to express the sense of the Senate regarding making medical savings accounts available to all Americans. A motion was made to table (kill) the Craig Amendment. Motion to table passed.Americans for Tax Reform
Medical Savings Accounts.
The Senate killed an amendment that favored expansion of the private sector medical savings account demonstration program.