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Candidate Notes on 01-CPC3

 


01-CPC3 on Jan 31, 2001

Summary of the Medicare Extention of Drugs To Seniors Act (Meds)

MEDS establishes an 80/20 outpatient prescription drug benefit under a new Medicare Part D that will be administered by the Health Care Financing Administration. The plan will cost similar to figures for the Bush prescription drug plan due to this plan’s emphasis on lowering the price of pharmaceuticals.

Premiums and Low-income Assistance:

Premiums would be $24/month in the first year and indexed to a pharmaceutical Sustainable Growth Rate, which will ensure that premiums or drug costs do not increase arbitrarily.

Employer Incentive Program:

Employers providing drug coverage equal to or better than the Medicare coverage receive an incentive payment to maintain such coverage.

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Democrats participating in 01-CPC3

Neil Abercrombie s1aHawaii Democrat
Tammy Baldwin s1aWisconsin Democrat
Xavier Becerra s1aCalifornia Democrat
David Bonior s1aMichigan Democrat
Corrine Brown s1aFlorida Democrat
Sherrod Brown s1aOH Democratic challenger, U.S. Rep.
Michael Capuano s1aMassachusetts Democrat
Julia Carson s1aIndiana Democrat
William Lacy Clay s1aMissouri Democrat
John Conyers s1aMichigan Democrat
Danny Davis s1aIllinois Democrat
Peter Defazio s1aOregon Democrat
Rosa DeLauro s1aConnecticut Democrat
Lane Evans s1aIllinois Democrat
Eni Faleomavaega s1aSamoa Democrat
Sam Farr s1aCalifornia Democrat
Chaka Fattah s1aPennsylvania Democrat
Bob Filner s1aCalifornia Democrat
Barney Frank s1aMassachusetts Democrat
Luis Gutierrez s1aIllinois Democrat
Earl Hilliard s1aAlabama Democrat
Maurice Hinchey s1aNew York Dem./Ind./Lib./Working-Fam.
Jesse Louis Jackson s1aIllinois Democrat
Stephanie Tubbs Jones s1aOhio Democrat
Marcy Kaptur s1aOhio Democrat
Dennis Kucinich s1aOhio Democrat
Tom Lantos s1aCalifornia Democrat
Barbara Lee s1aCalifornia Democrat
Sheila Jackson Lee s1aTexas Democrat
John Lewis s1aGeorgia Democrat
Jim McDermott s1aWashington Democrat
Jim McGovern s1aMassachusetts Democrat
Cynthia McKinney s1aGeorgia Democrat
Carrie Meek s1aFlorida Democrat (retired 2002)
George Miller s1aCalifornia Democrat
Patsy Mink s1aHawaii Democrat
Jerrold Nadler s1aNew York Dem./Lib./Working-Families
Eleanor Holmes Norton s1aDistrict of Columbia Democrat
John Olver s1aMassachusetts Democrat
Major Owens s1aNew York Democrat/Working-Families
Ed Pastor s1aArizona Democrat
Donald Payne s1aNew Jersey Democrat
Nancy Pelosi s1aCalifornia Democrat
Jan Schakowsky s1aIllinois Democrat
Jose Serrano s1aNew York Democrat/Liberal
Hilda Solis s1aCalifornia Democrat
Pete Stark s1aCalifornia Democrat
Bennie Thompson s1aMississippi Democrat
John Tierney s1aMassachusetts Democrat
Tom Udall s1aNew Mexico Democrat
Nydia Velazquez s1aNew York Democrat/Working-Families
Maxine Waters s1aCalifornia Democrat
Mel Watt s1aNorth Carolina Democrat
Henry Waxman s1aCalifornia Democrat
Paul Wellstone s1aMN Democrat Senator (Former)
Lynn Woolsey s1aCalifornia Democrat



Republicans participating in 01-CPC3



Independents participating in 01-CPC3

Bernie Sanders s1aVermont Independent



Total recorded by OnTheIssues:

Democrats: 56
Republicans: 0
Independents: 1