[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2687 Introduced in Senate (IS)]








109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2687

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

                              May 1, 2006

  Ms. Stabenow (for herself and Mr. Kennedy) 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 2007 may 
not exceed an amount equal to the monthly premium rate determined under 
this paragraph for each month in 2006 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 2005 to the third quarter of 
2006.''.
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