2009-SR231 on Jul 30, 2009

• Whereas health care spending has risen close to 2.4 percentage points faster than gross domestic product (GDP) since 1970; and
• Whereas the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services projects health care spending to be 17.6% of GDP in 2009 and 20.4% of GDP by 2018:

Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that--
1. any health care reform proposal should reduce total spending on health care in the United States during the next decade to below current projections by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; and
2. any health care reform proposal should reduce the growth rate of Federal health care spending.

Participating counts on VoteMatch question 5. Question 5: More federal funding for health coverage Scores: -2=Strongly oppose; -1=Oppose; 0=neutral; 1=Support; 2=Strongly support.
• Topic: Health Care
• Headline: Reforms should slow the long-term growth of health costs (Score: -2)
• Headline 2: Sponsored bill to slow the long-term growth of health costs (Score: -2)
  
  
• Key for participation codes:
• Sponsorships: p=sponsored; o=co-sponsored; s=signed
• Memberships: c=chair; m=member; e=endorsed; f=profiled; s=scored
• Resolutions: i=introduced; w=wrote; a=adopted
• Cases: w=wrote; j=joined; d=dissented; c=concurred
• Surveys: '+' supports; '-' opposes.