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S. 2426119th CongressHealth
Equitable Community Access to Pharmacist Services Act
Sponsored by Sen. John Thune (R-SD) · 33 active : 16 Republicans, 17 Democrats
Latest action: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text: CR S4701)
Where it standsBefore the Senate4 senators score as swing votes
Hasn’t passed either chamber
- Senate: next
- House: not yet
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govEquitable Community Access to Pharmacist Services Act
This bill provides for permanent coverage under Medicare of certain pharmacist services.
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Specifically, the bill provides for permanent coverage of testing and treatment services provided by pharmacists relating to (1) COVID-19, influenza, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and streptococcal pharyngitis (strep throat); and (2) other public health needs in relation to a declared public health emergency. (Similar authorities were temporarily granted during the COVID-19 public health emergency.) Such services must be provided in accordance with the applicable state laws governing pharmacists' scope of practice.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- Senate Committee on Finance · SenateReferred to
Subjects
- Health care costs and insurance
- Health care coverage and access
- Medicare
- Prescription drugs
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
How the Senate breaks down
- 4Swing 70–100
- 45Middle 30–70
- 51Entrenched 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-v3, directional: only movement toward the other party counts, so members who sit further from the center than their party no longer score as swing votes.
Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, , and the . 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
33 activeShow all 33 cosponsors
- Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV)
- Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
- Margaret Wood Hassan (D-NH)
- Mark R. Warner (D-VA)
- Peter Welch (D-VT)
- Steve Daines (R-MT)
- Thomas Tillis (R-NC)
- James Lankford (R-OK)
- Kevin Cramer (R-ND)
- Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE)
- Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
- Dan Sullivan (R-AK)
- Deb Fischer (R-NE)
- Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)
- Martin Heinrich (D-NM)
- Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV)
- Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
- Tim Kaine (D-VA)
- Christopher A. Coons (D-DE)
- Mike Rounds
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.
