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Congressional Votes on a Health Insurance Bill
Description
Congressional votes on an ObamaCare health insurance bill in 2009
Format
A dataset with 435 observations on the following 9 variables.
Party | Party affiliation: D=Democrat or R=Republican |
Dist. | Congressional district (State-Number) |
InsVote | Vote on the health insurance bill: 1=yes or 0=no |
Rep | Indicator for Republicans |
Dem | Indicator for Democrats |
Private | Percentage of non-senior citizens in district with private health insurance |
Public | Percentage of non-senior citizens in district with public health insurance |
Uninsured | Percentage of non-senior citizens in district with no health insurance |
Obama | District winner in 2008 presidential election: 1=Obama 0=McCain |
Details
On 7 November 2009 the U.S. House of Representatives voted, by the narrow margin of 220-215, for a bill to enact health insurance reform. Most Democrats voted yes while almost all Republicans voted no. This dataset contains data for each of the 435 representatives.
Source
Insurance data are from the American Community Survey
(http://www.census.gov/acs/www/data_documentation/data_main/).
Roll call of congressional votes on this bill can be found
at
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2009/roll887.xml.