Congressional votes on an ObamaCare health insurance bill in 2009
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 |
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.