[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1900 Introduced in Senate (IS)]








109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1900

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

                            October 20, 2005

Ms. Stabenow (for herself, Mr. Harkin, Mr. Dayton, Mr. Lautenberg, and 
 Mr. Corzine) 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.

    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 ``Keep the Promise of Medicare Act of 
2006''.

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 2006 may 
not exceed an amount equal to the monthly premium rate determined under 
this paragraph for each month in 2005 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 2004 to the third quarter of 
2005.''.
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