For your reviewing please, I have placed a brief description of all 91 amendments that have been submitted to the Senate health care bill in the extended entry.
Senators submitting the most amendments:
Bernie Sanders (I-VT): 22
Mike Crapo (R-ID): 14
John Cornyn (R-TX): 9
Sherrod Brown (D-OH): 7
Amendments by caucus:
Democrats: 47
Republicans: 45
Even though most of the Democratic amendments come from only two Senators (Sanders caucuses with Democrats), that kind of makes hard to argue that Republicans are the ones engaging in a filibuster by amendment.
Reid amendment in the nature of a substitute. (#2786)
Specter amendment to provide increased penalties for health care fraud. (#2787)
Coburn amendment to require all Members of Congress to read a bill prior to casting on a vote on the bill. (#2788)
Coburn amendment to require all Members of Congress to enroll in the new public health insurance option. (#2789)
Casey amendment to protect low-income children from harm and ensure that they benefit from healthcare reform. (#2790)
Mikulski amendment to clarify provisions relating to first dollar coverage for preventive services for women (#2791, as amended) was agreed to by unanimous consent after it achieved 60 votes, as required by unanimous consent, following a roll call vote of 61-39
Kaufman amendment to improve health care fraud enforcement. (#2792)
Dorgan amendment to provide for the importation of prescription drugs. (#2793)
Leahy amendment to extend medical malpractice coverage provided for community health centers to free clinics and officers, employees, board members, and contractors of the free clinics, and for other purposes. (#2794)
Leahy amendment to ensure that health insurance issuers and medical malpractice issuers cannot engage in price fixing, bid rigging, or market allocations to the detriment of competition and consumers. (#2795)
Inouye amendment to provide demonstration grants for family nurse practitioner training programs. (#2798)
Cornyn amendment to ensure that health care reform reduces Washington spending on Federal health care entitlements. (#2799)
Cornyn amendment to ensure that health care reform lowers health care premiums for American families. (#2800)
Cornyn amendment to provide relief for small businesses from new Washington mandates and taxes. (#2801)
Cornyn amendment to ensure that Americans can keep their current health care benefits if they so choose. (#2802)
Cornyn amendment to enroll in Members of Congress in the Medical program. (#2803)
Cornyn amendment to reduce the tens of billions of dollars lost to fraud in the Medicaid program every year before spending $374 billion of taxpayer dollars on the largest expansion since the entitlement program was created in 1965. (#2804)
Cornyn amendment to ensure that this bill does not "add one dime to our deficits-either now or in the future. Period." (#2805)
Cornyn amendment to ensure that health care reforms lower health care costs. (#2806)
Cornyn amendment to prevent health care rationing by unaccountable bureaucrats. (#2807)
Vitter second-degree amendment to Mikulski amendment # 2781, to prevent the United States Preventive Service Task Force recommendations from restricting mammograms for women. (#2808)
Crapo amendment to preclude the Independent Medicare Advisory Board from making recommendations which would have the effect of restricting access to treatment with individuals with epilepsy. (#2809)
Crapo amendment to strike the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. (#2810)
Crapo amendment to preclude the Independent Medicare Advisory Board from making recommendations which would have the effect of restricting access to treatment for individuals with childhood cancer. (#2811)
Crapo amendment to strike the Medicare payment cuts to disproportionate share hospitals. (#2812)
Crapo amendment to protect choice and competition for Medicare beneficiaries. (#2813)
Crapo amendment to preclude the Independent Medicare Advisory Board from making recommendations which would have the effect of restricting access to treatment for individuals with juvenile diabetes. (#2814)
Crapo amendment to preclude the Independent Medicare Advisory Board from making recommendations which would have the effect of restricting access to treatment for individuals with autism. (#2815)
Crapo amendment to preclude the Independent Medicare Advisory Board from making recommendations which would have the effect of restricting access to treatment for individuals with cancer. (#2816)
Crapo amendment to strike the Medicare payment adjustments for home health care. (#2817)
Crapo amendment to preclude the Independent Medicare Advisory Board from making recommendations which would have the effect of restricting access to treatment for individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). (#2818)
Crapo amendment to strike the Medicare market basket and productivity adjustments. (#2819)
Crapo amendment to preclude the Independent Medicare Advisory Board from making recommendations with respect to providers located in rural areas. (#2820)
Crapo amendment to strike the cuts to the Medicare Advantage program. (#2821)
Crapo amendment to strike the Independent Medicare Advisory Board. (#2822)
Coburn amendment to eliminate an earmark for the State of Louisiana. (#2823)
Coburn amendment to strike the new $375 million program directing the very same Federal Government that that amassed a $12 trillion debt to lecture Americans about financial responsibility. (#2825)
Coburn amendment to require that each new bureaucrat added to any department or agency of the Federal Government for the purpose of implementing the provisions of this act be offset by a reduction of 1 existing bureaucrat at such department or agency. (#2825)
Bennet amendment to protect and improve guaranteed Medicare benefits (#2826) was agreed to by unanimous consent after it achieved 60 votes, as required by unanimous consent, following a roll call vote of 100-0.
Tester amendment to provide attention to rural health needs. (#2827)
Whitehouse amendment to amend title 11 of the United States Code, to provide protection for medical debt homeowners, to restore bankruptcy protections for individuals experiencing economic distress as caregivers to ill, injured, or disabled family members, and to exempt from means testing debtors whose financial problems were caused by serious medical problems, and for other purposes. (#2828)
Graham amendment to establish Federal standards for the resolution of health care malpractice claims, and for other purposes. (#2829)
Brownback amendment to require a certification from the Secretary of Health and Human Services before the importation of prescription drugs is permitted. (#2830)
Johanns amendment to reduce Medicaid fraud before requiring a state to comply with any federally-mandated expansion of Medicaid eligibility. (#2831)
Johanns amendment to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the distribution of remaining balances in flexible spending arrangements upon termination from employment. (#2832)
Johanns amendment to require State Medicaid Directors to certify that at least 90 percent of individuals eligible for Medicaid under current law are enrolled before requiring a State to comply with any federally-mandated expansion of Medicaid eligibility. (#2833)
Johanns amendment to provide for an expedited constitutional review of the individual mandate. (#2834)
Johanns amendment to exempt critical access hospitals from recommendations of the Independent Medicare Advisory Board. (#2835)
Murkowski amendment to ensure patients receive doctor recommendations for preventive health services, including mammograms and cervical cancer screening, without interference from government or insurance company bureaucrats (#2836) was withdrawn by unanimous consent after it failed to achieve 60 votes, as required by unanimous consent, following a roll call vote of 41-59.
Sanders amendment to provide health care for every American and to control the cost and enhance the quality of the health care system. (#2837)
Sanders amendment to strike the opt-out provisions and to tie reimbursements rates under the community health insurance option to Medicare reimbursements rates. (#2838)
Sanders amendment to strike the State opt-out provision and to tie reimbursement rates under the community health insurance option to Medicare reimbursements rates. (#2839)
Sanders amendment to strike the opt-out provision. (#2840)
Sanders amendment to time reimbursement rates under the community health insurance option to Medicare reimbursement rates. (#2841)
Sanders amendment to provide that an employee is eligible for the premium tax credit and cost-sharing reductions if the employee's employer-sponsored coverage does not provide coverage of essential health benefits. (#2842)
Sanders amendment to provide that an employee is eligible for the premium tax credit and cost-sharing reductions if the employee's employer-sponsored coverage does not provide coverage of essential health benefits, and to offset the cost through a surcharge on high income individuals. (#2843)
Sanders amendment to replace the excise tax on high cost employer-sponsored health coverage with a surcharge on high income individuals. (#2844)
Sanders amendment to modify the program allowing waivers for State innovations. (#2845)
Sanders amendment to modify the program allowing waivers for State innovations. (#2845)
Sanders amendment to allow waivers for State innovations beginning in 2014 rather than 2017. (#2847)
Sanders amendment to modify the program allowing waivers for State innovations to allow the Secretary to base payment amounts on reasonable estimates. (#2848)
Sanders amendment to modify the program allowing waivers for State innovations to impose certain requirements on the Secretary before denying a request to continue a waiver. (#2849)
Sanders amendment to implement the insurance reforms in 2012. (#2850)
Sanders amendment to implement the insurance reforms in 2012. (#2851)
Sanders amendment to expand Medicaid eligibility to 150 percent of the poverty line. (#2852)
Sanders amendment to expand Medicaid eligibility to 150 percent of the poverty line. (#2853)
Sanders amendment to clarify the coverage of ambulatory patient services. (#2854)
Sanders amendment to clarify the coverage of ambulatory patient services. (#2855)
Sanders amendment to apply the rules requiring fair health insurance premiums and comprehensive health insurance coverage to grandfathered plans in the group market, and to new plans in the large group market, for plan years beginning 5 years after enactment. (#2856)
Sanders amendment to provide a cap on private insurance company executive compensation. (#2857)
Sanders amendment to ensure that rules for the approval of generic pharmaceutical products to not require violations of medical ethics in the testing of products in humans. (#2858)
Snowe amendment to modify provisions relating to national plans. (#2859)
Feingold amendment to amend the title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve the Medicare program for beneficiaries residing in rural areas. (#2860)
Feingold amendment to amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorized the Automated Defibrillation in Adam's Memory Act. (#2861)
Kohl amendment to prohibit brand name drug companies from compensating generic drug companies to delay the entry of a generic drug into the market. (#2862)
Vitter amendment to provide for the importation of prescription drugs. (#2863)
Vitter amendment to require all Members of Congress to enroll in the new public health insurance option, and for other purposes. (#2864)
Burris amendment to improve the Hospital Compare patient survey of the Agency for the Healthcare Research Quality. (#2865)
Specter to establish a Cures Acceleration Network and to sponsor promising translational research to bridge the gap between laboratory discoveries and life-saving therapies. (#2866)
Specter amendment to increase funding levels for the National Institutes of Health. (#2867)
Burris amendment to reduce health disparities. (#2868)
Nelson (FL) amendment to eliminate the coverage gap and require drug manufactures to provide drug rebates for full-benefit dual eligibles under part D. (#2869)
Whitehouse amendment to promote fiscal responsibility by protecting the Social Security surplus and CLASS program savings in this Act. (#2870)
Brown amendment to require all health insurance products to cover the routine costs associated with participation in certain clinical trials. (#2871)
Brown amendment to permit greater flexibility for counting resident time spent in certain hospitals. (#2872)
Brown amendment to make technical corrections to the community health worker grant program. (#2873)
Brown amendment to ensure that community health workers are eligible to be included in community health teams. (#2874)
Brown amendment to ensure that community health workers are eligible to be included in teams of health care professionals designated as a health home. (#2875)
Brown amendment to provide for a waiver of the Medicare durable medical equipment surety bond requirement for certain suppliers. (#2876)
Brown amendment to provide reimbursement under the Medicare program for total body orthotic management for certain nursing home patients. (#2877)
Cardin amendment to provide for the establishment of Offices of Minority Health. (#2878)
Cardin amendment to provide for a study and report on Medicaid beneficiaries and dual eligibles receiving care in home and community-based settings. (#2879)
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