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104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 569

To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 
  to combat waste, fraud, and abuse in the medicare program, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 16, 1995

  Mr. Harkin introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred jointly pursuant to the order of August 4, 1977, to the 
 Committees on the Budget and Governmental Affairs, with instructions 
that if one committee reports, the other committee have thirty days to 
                        report or be discharged

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 
  to combat waste, fraud, and abuse in the medicare program, and for 
                            other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Medicare Protection Act of 1995''.

SEC. 2. ADJUSTMENTS TO DISCRETIONARY SPENDING LIMITS.

    (a) Adjustments.--Section 251(b)(2) of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 901(b)(2)) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subparagraphs (E) and (F) as 
        subparagraphs (F) and (G), respectively; and
            (2) by inserting after subparagraph (D) the following new 
        subparagraph:
                    ``(E) Medicare administrative costs.--To the extent 
                that appropriations are enacted that provide additional 
                new budget authority (as compared with a base level of 
                $1,609,671,000 for new budget authority) for the 
                administration of the medicare program by fiscal 
                intermediaries and carriers pursuant to sections 1816 
                and 1842(a) of title XVIII of the Social Security Act, 
                the adjustment for that year shall be that amount, but 
                shall not exceed--
                            ``(i) for fiscal year 1995, $161,000,000 in 
                        new budget authority and $161,000,000 in 
                        outlays;
                            ``(ii) for fiscal year 1996, $177,000,000 
                        in new budget authority and $177,000,000 in 
                        outlays;
                            ``(iii) for fiscal year 1997, $195,000,000 
                        in new budget authority and $195,000,000 in 
                        outlays;
                            ``(iv) for fiscal year 1998, $214,000,000 
                        in new budget authority and $214,000,000 in 
                        outlays;
                            ``(v) for fiscal year 1999, $236,000,000 in 
                        new budget authority and $236,000,000 in 
                        outlays; and
                            ``(vi) for fiscal year 2000, $259,000,000 
                        in new budget authority and $259,000,000 in 
                        outlays; and
                the prior-year outlays resulting from these 
                appropriations of budget authority and additional 
                adjustments equal to the sum of the maximum adjustments 
                that could have been made in preceding fiscal years 
                under this subparagraph.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendments.--
            (1) Section 603(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 
        (2 U.S.C. 655b(a)) is amended by striking ``section 
        251(b)(2)(E)(i)'' and inserting ``section 251(b)(2)(F)(i)''.
            (2) Section 606(d) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 
        (2 U.S.C. 665e(d)) is amended--
                    (A) in paragraph (1)(A) by striking ``section 
                251(b)(2)(E)(i)'' and inserting ``section 
                251(b)(2)(F)(i)''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (2), by inserting 
                ``251(b)(2)(E),'' after ``251(b)(2)(D),''.
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