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InsuranceVote: Congressional Votes on a Health Insurance Bill

Description

Congressional votes on an ObamaCare health insurance bill in 2009

Arguments

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.