[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2780 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







108th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2780

To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to stabilize the amount 
                    of the medicare part B premium.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 8, 2004

  Ms. Stabenow (for herself, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Rockefeller, Mr. Dayton, 
Mrs. Boxer, Mr. Lautenberg, Mr. Corzine, Mr. Harkin, Mr. Reid, and Mr. 
Leahy) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred 
                      to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to stabilize the amount 
                    of the medicare part B premium.

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Keep the Promise of Medicare Act of 
2004''.

SEC. 2. STABILIZATION OF MEDICARE PART B PREMIUM.

    Section 1839(a)(3) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
1395r(a)(3)) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
sentence: ``Notwithstanding the preceding sentences, the monthly 
premium rate determined under this paragraph for each month in 2005 may 
not exceed an amount equal to the monthly premium rate determined under 
this paragraph for each month in 2004 adjusted by the percentage change 
in the average Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical 
Workers (CPI-W) for the third quarter of 2003 to the third quarter of 
2004.''.
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