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S. 475119th CongressHealth
Alternatives to PAIN Act
Sponsored by Sen. Thomas Tillis (R-NC) · 36 active : 17 Republicans, 18 Democrats, 1 Independent
Latest action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Where it standsBefore the Senate3 senators score as swing votes
Hasn’t passed either chamber
- Senate: next
- House: not yet
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govAlternatives to Prevent Addiction In the Nation Act or the Alternatives to PAIN Act
This bill reduces cost-sharing and prohibits the imposition of certain utilization requirements under the Medicare prescription drug benefit for certain non-opioid pain management drugs.
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Specifically, the bill requires such drugs to be covered without a deductible and to be placed on the lowest cost-sharing tier (if any). The bill also prohibits the imposition of prior authorization requirements (i.e., requiring prior approval from a plan) or step therapy requirements (i.e., requiring the use of alternative drugs before a drug is covered under a plan) with respect to such drugs.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- Senate Committee on Finance · SenateReferred to
Subjects
- Drug therapy
- Health care costs and insurance
- Medicare
- Prescription drugs
How the Senate breaks down
- 3Swing 70–100
- 38Middle 30–70
- 59Entrenched 0–30
Members fall into . All 100 senators have enough data to score.
Key players in the Senate
Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v2Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.
Similar past votes, Senate
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Cosponsors
36 activeShow all 36 cosponsors
- Alex Padilla (D-CA)
- Christopher A. Coons (D-DE)
- Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS)
- Cory A. Booker (D-NJ)
- Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)
- Jerry Moran (R-KS)
- Jim Banks (R-IN)
- John Cornyn (R-TX)
- Katie Boyd Britt (R-AL)
- Mark Kelly (D-AZ)
- Mark R. Warner (D-VA)
- Michael F. Bennet (D-CO)
- Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV)
- Steve Daines (R-MT)
- Ted Budd (R-NC)
- Tim Kaine (D-VA)
- John Boozman (R-AR)
- Raphael G. Warnock (D-GA)
- Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
- James C. Justice
How the swing score works
Ideology gapHow far a member’s DW-NOMINATE voting score sits from their party’s median in the same chamber.
Scorecard gapHow far their Heritage Action and LCV ratings stray from their party’s average, using the groups’ votes on similar bills where available.
Cross-pressureHow strongly their district or state leans toward the other party, from our own computed partisan lean.
Similar votesHow often they voted against their own party on earlier roll calls about this bill or similar ones.
Committee bonusMembers of the committees handling the bill decide whether it moves, so they get a boost.
Cosponsor checkThe sponsor and active cosponsors have already committed, so they drop toward entrenched.
