    [House Document 108-177]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]

    108th Congress, 2d Session - - - - - - - - - - - - House Document 108-
    177

        THE 2004 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARDS OF TRUSTEES OF THE FEDERAL
     HOSPITAL INSURANCE AND FEDERAL SUPPLEMENTARY MEDICAL INSURANCE TRUST
                                     FUNDS

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                                 COMMUNICATION

                                      from

         THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES, FEDERAL HOSPITAL INSURANCE AND FEDERAL
                  SUPPLEMENTARY MEDICAL INSURANCE TRUST FUNDS

                                  transmitting

        THE 2004 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARDS OF TRUSTEES OF THE FEDERAL
     HOSPITAL INSURANCE AND FEDERAL SUPPLEMENTARY MEDICAL INSURANCE TRUST
      FUNDS, PURSUANT TO 42 U.S.C. 402(c)(2), 1395i(b)(2), AND 1395t(b)(2)

     March 23, 2004.--Referred jointly to the Committees on Ways and Means
               and Energy and Commerce, and ordered to be printed