SOCIAL SECURITY ACT related term(s) Public Welfare

Addresses

Infant Mortality and What Needs To Be Done To Conquer the Threat in the U.S.: Senator Chiles, 7794 [16AP]

Missouri Junior Chamber of Commerce: Senator Eagleton (1978), 28831 [6OC]

Advertisements

Medicare Quality Protection Act—open letter to President Reagan: Pasco County (FL) Medical Society, 11980 [22MY]

Amendments

Employment Opportunities for Disabled Americans Act: enact (S. 2209), 18127 [30JY]

President's Council on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention: enact S. 2057, 32250 [16OC]

President's Council on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Act: enact (S. 2057), 13830, 13861 [16JN]

SSI Program: improve (H.R. 5595), 31937 [15OC], 32180 [16OC], 33812 [18OC]

Trust funds: prohibit disinvestment (H.R. 5050), 17500 [23JY]

Analyses

End Stage Renal Disease Program Administration and Regulation Changes, 17509 [23JY]

Federal Budget Overview: New York State Catholic Conference, 5412-5418 [19MR]

Federal Health Care Auditing and Quality Control Improvement Act (S. 2625), 15885 [26JN]

Social Security Disability Determination Act (H.R. 4936) (excerpt), 12538 [4JN]

Steps in Approving and Paying for Products and Procedure, 11328 [20MY]

Appointments

Conferees: H.J. Res. 668, increase statutory public debt limit, 20365 [9AU]

———H.R. 2005, Social Security Minor and Technical Changes Act, 1943 [6FE], 2073 [7FE], 2668 [25FE]

Articles and editorials

Abolishing ``Notch-Pay'' Bias, 9002 [29AP]

Court—Medicaid for Aliens, 16411 [15JY]

Every Wednesday, I Take a Vacation From Redtape, 19884 [7AU]

Experts—Social Security Strong, 18757 [1AU]

Health Promotion (excerpt), 13831 [16JN]

HMO's—Protecting Senior Citizens, 13408 [11JN]

Medicare Prospective Payment System (excerpt), 8024 [17AP]

Peace of Mind for $155, 5597 [19MR]

Pension Benefits (excerpt), 30212 [10OC]

Poverty and Welfare in America, 12492 [4JN]

Saving Social Security, 13891 [16JN]

Sitting Gets Costly for Senior Judges, 2856 [26FE]

Six Shots To Save Your Life, 24702 [18SE]

States Are Serving as Testing Grounds for Welfare Reform, 12492 [4JN]

States Asked To Increase Disability Caseloads, 30448 [10OC]

Support Continues for an Expanded Medicare Reimbursement Policy, 33632 [17OC]

Taxing the Volunteers, 2856 [26FE]

Welcome to the ``No-Care Zone''—After Reform, Concern About New Kinds of Medicare Abuse, 5581 [19MR]

White House Urges Cash Welfare Aid, 20571 [11AU]

Bills and resolutions

Adoption: Dept. of HHS publication of statistical data (see S. 2476)

AFDC: administrative improvements and child support enforcement (see H.R. 5041)

———assistance to homeless (see H.R. 5139)

———improve program (see S. 2371)

———prohibit payments to unmarried minor parents living away from home (see H.R. 4018)

———State option to require registration for work incentive (WIN) program (see H.R. 5212)

———temporary housing for destitute and homeless (see H.R. 5080)

———training and employment of recipients (see S. 2657)

———two-parent families (see H.R. 4727)

———uniform eligibility and benefit levels and enhance employment prospects of recipients (see S. 2926; H.R. 5698)

———work opportunities and retraining compact (see S. 2513; H.R. 4929)

Aged: revise medicaid and medicare for low income and disabled (see S. 2492)

Aid to Families and Employment Transition Act: enact (see S. 2579; H.R. 5065)

Amend: waiving certain points of order against conference report on H.R. 2005, technical changes (see H. Res. 577)

Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act: exempt certain provisions relative to medical care (see H.R. 4035)

Benefits: efforts to inform applicants of status (see H.R. 5226)

Benefits checks: payments for costs of printing and mailing (see S. 2600)

Budget: reconciliation for medicare and medicaid programs (see H.R. 5287)

Children: medical assistance to low-income families (see S. 2667)

Cost of living adjustments: eliminate 3% trigger (see S. 2450; H.R. 4763, 4822)

———fiscal 1987 benefits (see S. Res. 375)

Dept. of HHS: require States to furnish statistical data on incidence of adoptions (see H.R. 5029)

Disability evaluation: cost effective review procedures and efficiency for claimants and beneficiaries (see H.R. 4419)

———primary role of findings of medical severity (see H.R. 4753)

———regulatory standards and procedures governing (see H.R. 4936)

———rules for individuals with multiple sclerosis (see H.R. 5474)

Donation of organs: protocols for hospitals participating in medicaid and medicare programs (see S. 2808; H.R. 5587)

End Stage Renal Disease Patient Rights Act: enact (see S. 2547)

Families: permit States to purchase, construct, renovate, or rent facilities for emergency shelter (see H.R. 4938)

Federal employees: extend interim retirement plan for certain (see S. 2385)

———Social Security contribution by new employees (see S. Res. 403; H. Res. 453)

Handicapped: disability insurance program (see S. Con. Res. 167; H. Con. Res. 408)

Head Start Program: extend and amend (see H.R. 4527)

Health: permit States to provide home and community-based services to low-income individuals with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (see H.R. 4915)

Health insurance: access (see S. 2403)

Homeless: assistance under AFDC and SSI programs (see H.R. 5139)

Hospital rates: limit rate of increase in inpatient deductible and revise extended care coinsurance amount (see H.R. 5008)

Illegal aliens: medicaid benefits (see S. 2644)

Infant Mortality Prevention Act: enact (see S. 2288)

Judges: exclude certain payments in annuities (see H.R. 4111)

———exempt certain retirees from coverage (see S. 2109; H.R. 4147)

Married people: clarify institutionalized spouse income resources (see H.R. 4902)

———protect welfare of spouses of institutionalized individuals (see H.R. 4903)

Medicaid: assistance to illegal aliens (see S. 2644)

———bed requirement for skilled nursing homes and intermediate care facilities (see H.R. 5344)

———change requirements for nursing homes based on recommendations of Institute of Medicine (see H.R. 5450)

———comprehensive assessment of medical needs before providing long-term nursing care (see H.R. 4901)

———concurrent notification of eligibility for SSI benefits to certain handicapped (see S. 2209; H.R. 4450)

———cost reduction (see S. 2776)

———coverage of pregnant women (see H.R. 5235)

———home and community based services to low income individuals with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (see S. 2527)

———optional State coverage for poor elderly or disabled individuals (see H.R. 4882)

———prenatal, delivery, and postpartum care of low-income pregnant women (see S. 2667)

———prenatal and postpartum care to low-income pregnant women (see S. 2333; H.R. 4630)

———quality assurance system for homecare services (see H.R. 5680)

———quality control (see S. 2625; H.R. 5130)

———requests of hospital inpatients for reconsideration of determinations denying payment for continuing care (see H.R. 4275)

———services to children of low-income families (see S. 2649)

———services to pregnant women and infants (see S. 2650)

———standards for participating nursing homes (see S. 2604)

———standards for participation of skilled nursing homes (see H.R. 4485)

———treatment in small rural hospitals (see S. 2410; H.R. 4788)

———uniform eligibility and benefit levels (see S. 2926; H.R. 5698)

Medical care: prospective payment rates for outpatient maintenance dialysis services (see S. 2646)

Medical students: medicare reimbursement in ambulatory care settings (see S. 2670)

Medical University of South Carolina: waiver of certain requirements relative to care and services (see S. 2825; H.R. 5648)

Medicare: additional insurance options for coverage of certain gaps (see H.R. 5320)

———additional members on Physician Payment Review Commission (see S. 2602; H.R. 5085)

———adult day care (see H.R. 4739)

———annual preventive health checkup (see S. 2400)

———annual recalibration of diagnosis-related groups (see S. 2474)

———auditing, medical review, and administration (see S. 2625; H.R. 5130)

———availability of new technologies and procedures not recognized by prospective payment system (see S. 2474)

———catastrophic, long-term, and preventive benefits through prepaid plans (see H.R. 4287)

———change requirements for skilled nursing facilities based on recommendations of Institute of Medicine (see H.R. 5712)

———community nursing and ambulatory care on prepaid, capitated basis (see H.R. 5457)

———complications and morbidity variations among discharges taken into account in making payments for inpatient hospital services under diagnosis-related group system (see H.R. 5647)

———contributions by individuals with physical or mental impairments (see H.R. 5090)

———cost effective review procedures and equity for beneficiaries (see H.R. 4419)

———cost reduction (see S. 2776)

———coverage for the disabled (see S. 2686)

———end stage renal disease program (see H.R. 5197)

———exemption of certain cancer research and treatment centers from prospective payment system (see S. 2786)

———funds for research into the outcomes of specific medical treatments and surgical procedures (see S. 2001)

———graduate medical education in ambulatory care settings (see S. 2670)

———home oxygen services on prospective basis (see H.R. 5206)

———improve access to, and quality of program (see S. 2655)

———inpatient hospital and posthospital services (see S. 2331, 2341; H.R. 4620, 4638, 4663)

———inpatient hospital services in certain rural hospitals (see S. 2432)

———limitations on payment for home care services (see H.R. 5207, 5214)

———long-term and acute care benefits (see H.R. 4330)

———method of payment to hospitals for capital-related costs (see S. 2121)

———notice of discharge rights at time of admission to a hospital (see H.R. 4272)

———optional catastrophic, long-term, and preventive benefits through prepaid plans (see S. 2358)

———optional catastrophic care (see H.R. 4349)

———optometrists' and occupational therapy services (see H.R. 4881)

———payment for physicians' services (see S. 2368)

———payments for physician services made on an assignment-related basis (see H.R. 5732)

———periodic-interim-payment method of reimbursing providers of services (see H.R. 5053, 5054)

———permit individuals to continue coverage at own expense (see H.R. 5264)

———prohibit certain physician-hospital capitation demonstration projects (see H.R. 5741)

———prompt payment of claims (see S. Res. 420; H. Res. 468, 471)

———quality assurance system for homecare services (see H.R. 5680)

———quality of services furnished by health maintenance organizations and competitive medical plans (see H.R. 5360)

———research on outcomes of specific medical treatment and surgical procedures (see S. 2114)

———research relative to outcomes of specific treatments and surgical procedures (see H.R. 4797)

———services to VA beneficiaries (see S. 2174)

———standards for participating nursing homes (see S. 2604)

———standards for participation of skilled nursing homes (see H.R. 4485)

———timely payment of claims (see S. 2576; H.R. 5053, 5054)

———treatment in small rural hospitals (see S. 2410; H.R. 4788)

———veterans' demonstration project (see S. 2482)

———waiver of liability presumption for home health agencies and nursing homes (see H.R. 4065)

———waiver of liability presumption for home health agencies and skilled nursing homes (see S. 2122)

Medicare Home Health Care Improvement Act: enact (see S. 2494)

Medicare Information Act: enact (see S. 2554)

Monroe County, NY: coverage for certain additional employees (see S. 2897)

———coverage for certain employees (see H.R. 4764)

Nurse practitioners: authority to certify need for certain services (see S. 2920)

———coverage of certain items and services (see S. 2920)

Nursing homes: protection of patients (see H.R. 5067)

Pensions: cost of living adjustments (see H.R. 5182, 5193; H.J. Res. 731)

———eliminate 3% trigger for cost of living adjustments (see H.R. 4633)

———eliminate benefit disparity known as notch problem (see S. 2892)

———eliminate earnings test for retirees (see H.R. 5569)

Physician Payment Review Commission: additional members (see S. 2602; H.R. 5085)

Pregnancy: prenatal and postpartum care to low-income women under medicaid (see S. 2333; H.R. 4630)

Public Employees Social Security Equity Act: enact (see H.R. 5285)

Religion: optional coverage of employees of certain organizations (see H.R. 4336)

Rural areas: payment for extended services provided through home health agencies (see H.R. 5671)

Social Security: comprehensive assessment of medical needs before providing long-term nursing care (see H.R. 4901)

———coverage of pregnant women (see H.R. 5235)

———permit individuals to continue coverage at own expense (see H.R. 5264)

———protect welfare of spouses of institutionalized individuals (see H.R. 4903)

———revise medicaid and medicare for low income and disabled elderly (see S. 2492)

Social Security Administration: establish as independent agency (see H.R. 5050)

Social Security Court: establish (see H.R. 4647)

Social Security Trust Funds Management Act: enact (see S. 2542)

SSI: assistance to homeless (see H.R. 5139)

———benefits to certain workers with medical impairment (see S. 2209; H.R. 4450)

———concurrent notification of eligibility for medicaid benefits to certain handicapped (see S. 2209; H.R. 4450)

———cost effective review procedures and efficiency for claimants and beneficiaries (see H.R. 4419)

———improvement of program (see H.R. 5595)

———program improvements (see H.R. 4471)

Support of dependents: prohibit retroactive modification of arrearages (see S. 2404; H.R. 4769)

———tax on absent parents (see S. 2746)

Transplantation of organs: preference to U.S. citizens and permanent residents in hospitals participating in medicare program (see H.R. 5567)

Trust funds: investment (see S. 2133)

———investment practices (see H.R. 4067)

———prevent disinvestment (see H.R. 4951)

U.S. Health Act: enact (see H.R. 5070)

Women: prenatal, delivery, and postpartum care of low-income pregnant persons (see S. 2667)

Broadcasts

DRG problem—call for hearings: WBZ-TV (Boston, MA), 16985 [17JY]

Decisions

Disinvestment of the Social Security trust fund: GAO (excerpt), 13289 [11JN]

Harris v. McRae: court (sundry excerpts), 28368 [3OC]

Documents

National Committee To Preserve Social Security and Medicare Mailings, 11611, 11613 [21MY]

Provisions (excerpt), 12492 [4JN]

Essays

Social Security: Bernice Allen, 2757 [25FE]

———Birdie Stallman, 2758 [25FE]

———Josephine Herd, 2758 [25FE]

———Marian Jenkins, 2757 [25FE]

———Ruth Johnson, 2758 [25FE]

———Vi Perry, 2758 [25FE]

Examples

Hospital capital payment under Fair Deal Capital Payment Act, 3184 [27FE]

Technologies inhibited by medicare, 11328 [20MY]

Explanations

Amendment to the drug control bill to assure access for eligible homeless persons to Government assistance programs, 26733 [27SE]

Work opportunities and retraining compact (H.R. 4929), 12358 [4JN]

Factsheets

Medicare Payment for Therapeutic Shoes: American Diabetes Association, 4237 [11MR]

Utah Emergency Work Program for Unemployed Households, 17108 [21JY]

Letters

AFDC coverage for unemployed parents: several Senators, 32957 [17OC]

Elderly and Social Security: Nelson and Elsie Sweatt, 4374 [11MR]

Federal Old Age and Survivors Insurance and Federal Disability Insurance trust funds: James A. Baker III, Sec. of the Treasury, 21872 [15AU]

Formula for adjusting Social Security benefit amounts (sundry), 9138 [30AP]

Homecare Quality Assurance Act: Otis R. Bowen, Sec. of HHS, 33610 [17OC]

———Patricia Knight for Dept. of HHS, 33610 [17OC]

Medicaid eligibility: Senator Dole, 4898 [14MR]

Medicare Beneficiary Protection Act: Representatives Stark and Roybal, 1314 [30JA]

Medicare capital payments: Senator Long, 12768 [5JN]

———Senator Packwood, 12768 [5JN]

Medicare enrollment requirements for State and local government employees: city of North Las Vegas, NV, 24813 [19SE]

Medicare funding: Cyril F. Brickfield, 8915 [29AP]

———Jack W. Owen, 8915 [29AP]

———National Governors' Association, 8916 [29AP]

———Senator Baucus, 8914 [29AP]

———several organizations, 8915 [29AP]

Medicare payments: Marguerite Henry, 24879 [19SE]

———Muriel Peterson, 24879 [19SE]

Medicare reimbursement rates of kidney dialysis clinics: Senator Heinz, 21907 [15AU]

Membership on Physician Payment Review Commission (sundry), 16019 [26JN]

Modify limitations of medicare payment for home health services to elderly: American Association of Retired Persons, 17164 [21JY]

Operation of the Social Security trust fund: Bruce E. Thompson, Jr., 13287 [11JN]

Lists

Changes for State examiners to follow in making disability determinations, 29932 [9OC]

Correct benefits disparity known as notch problem (H.R. 1916), cosponsors, 9002 [29AP]

Organizations supporting the Access to Health Care Act (S. 2402), 9311 [1MY]

Supporters of the Employment Opportunities for Disabled Americans Act (H.R. 4450), 5560 [19MR]

Memorandums

Medicaid Eligibility: Health Care Financing Administration (excerpt), 4897 [14MR]

Memorials of legislature

Alaska, 4472 [12MR]

California, 13526 [12JN], 16371 [14JY], 27267 [30SE], 27551 [1OC]

Iowa, 12624 [5JN], 13834 [16JN]

Maine, 396 [23JA]

Maryland, 13526 [12JN], 13834 [16JN]

Massachusetts, 16372 [14JY]

North Carolina, 8412 [22AP]

Petitions

Classification of residents of Puerto Rico: citizen, 2846 [26FE]

Decisional independence of Social Security judges: Federal Administrative Law Judges Conference, 10704 [14MY]

Eligibility for Social Security Act benefits for disabled working in sheltered workshops (H.R. 793): Worcester, MA, City Council, 9554 [6MY]

Exclusion of retirement pay of senior Federal judges from coverage: ABA Board of Governors, 3108 [27FE]

Grace Commission findings: North Carolina Student Legislature, 11949 [22MY]

Medicare: John B. Watson, 3288 [28FE]

Rehabilitation needs of Social Security beneficiaries: Goodwill Industries of America, Inc., 18421 [31JY]

Rights of Social Security claimants: Federal Administrative Law Judges Conference, 10704 [14MY]

Remarks in House

AFDC: eligibility, 30161 [10OC]

———shelter for the homeless, 12305 [4JN]

———work opportunities and retraining compact (H.R. 4929), 12358 [4JN]

Aged: Government monitoring of health maintenance organizations, 13408 [11JN]

———modify limitations of medicare payment for home health services (H.R. 5207), 17163 [21JY]

———protect cost of living adjustments from budget reductions (H.R. 4057), 1018, 1021 [29JA]

Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Research Act: enact (H.R. 5553), 25066 [19SE]

Anniversary, 3263 [27FE]

Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act: impact, 3745 [5MR]

Benefits: correct disparity known as notch problem (H.R. 1916), 9002 [29AP]

———cost of living adjustments, 17994 [29JY], 30210 [10OC]

———cost of living adjustments (H. Con. Res. 116), 33577 [17OC]

———cost of living adjustments (H.R. 5182), 16659 [16JY]

———cost of living adjustments inflation trigger, 10655 [14MY]

———due process for applicants (H.R. 5226), 17532 [23JY]

———increase primary insurance amounts to account for depressed replacement rates (H.R. 65), 10443 [13MY]

———retirement transition formula adjustment (H.R. 1917), 8851, 8853, 8854, 8855, 8856 [29AP], 9138 [30AP], 22754, 22760, 22764 [10SE], 23280 [12SE], 32704 [16OC]

Budget: impact of reductions, 3745 [5MR]

Child support: prohibit retroactive modification of arrearages (S. 2404), 9958 [7MY]

Children: permit State option for prenatal, delivery, and postpartum low-income care for pregnant women (H.R. 4630), 8031 [17AP], 8584 [23AP]

Community Nursing and Ambulatory Care Act: enact (H.R. 5457), 22200 [15AU]

Crime and criminals: investigate scams, 13440 [12JN]

Disability: clarify role of findings of medical severity in determination (H.R. 4753), 9706 [6MY]

———review procedures in determinations (H.R. 4647), 8219-8221 [21AP]

Disability benefits: eligibility reform, 4199 [11MR]

Disability Insurance Program: management, 30447 [10OC]

Diseases: Alzheimer's workshops, 17007 [17JY]

———Federal funding for Alzheimer's research, 13890 [16JN]

End Stage Renal Disease Program: administration and regulation changes, 17509 [23JY]

Families: shelter for the homeless, 12305 [4JN]

Federal Civil Service Supplemental Retirement System Act: enact (H.R. 3660), 8986 [29AP]

Federal employees: coverage, 9106 [30AP]

Health: encourage research on variations in medical practice, 10220 [8MY]

Health Care Financing Administration: coverage for home health care, 32978 [18OC]

———medicare disability claims procedure (H. Res. 468), 14201 [17JN]

Homecare Quality Assurance Act: enact (H.R. 5680), 30448 [10OC], 33610 [17OC]

Hospitals: reimbursement for treating medicare patients, 10187 [8MY]

Housing Eligibility Verification Improvement Act: enact, 16305 [26JN]

Influenza vaccination: medicare coverage, 24702 [18SE]

Insurance: television advertisements, 15656 [26JN]

Judges: exempt certain retirees from coverage (H.R. 4147), 1981 [6FE]

Kidney disease: improve administration of end stage, and clarify responsibilities of networks (H.R. 5197), 17001 [17JY]

Low Income Elderly and Disabled Medicaid Amendments: enact (H.R. 4882), 11833 [21MY]

Medicaid: concurrent notification of eligibility for SSI benefits to certain handicapped (H.R. 4450), 5560 [19MR]

———nursing facility quality care (H.R. 5450), 22232 [15AU]

Medicaid Community Spouse Protection Act: enact (H.R. 4901), 11994 [22MY]

———enact (H.R. 4902), 11994 [22MY]

———enact (H.R. 4903), 11994 [22MY]

———enact (H.R. 4904), 11994 [22MY]

Medicaid Improvement Act: enact (H.R. 5235), 17721 [24JY]

Medicare: breast cancer screening, 19641 [7AU]

———claims processing (H.R. 5054), 14709 [19JN]

———congressional approval relative to physician and hospital capitalization demonstration projects (H.R. 5741), 33621 [17OC]

———coverage of adult day care (H.R. 4739), 9549 [6MY]

———coverage of mentally handicapped (H.R. 5090), 15647 [25JN]

———coverage of State and local employees, 29606 [8OC]

———deductible charges, 10125 [8MY]

———delay in reimbursement of claims, 18821 [1AU]

———expand options, 19641 [7AU]

———financial reform, 3785-3790, 3793, 3797, 3799, 3802 [6MR]

———force Health Care Financing Administration to pay claims on a timely basis, 14872 [20JN]

———hospital discharge of certain patients, 2889 [26FE]

———payment system, 2889 [26FE]

———payments for physician services made on an assignment-related basis (H.R. 5732), 32713 [17OC]

———physician fees, 2051 [6FE]

———physician payment system, 222 [22JA]

———prompt payment of claims (H. Res. 471), 15618 [25JN]

———prospective payment system, 8024 [17AP]

———provide coverage of cost for therapeutic shoes for diabetics (H.R. 2543), 4237 [11MR]

———research relative to outcome of specific treatments and surgical procedures (H.R. 4797), 10743 [14MY]

Medicare and medicaid: maternal and child health programs budget reconciliation (H.R. 5287), 18031 [29JY]

Medicare Beneficiary Protection Act: enact (H.R. 4065), 999 [29JA], 1314 [30JA]

Medicare Community Nursing and Ambulatory Care Act: enact (H.R. 5457), 22219 [15AU]

Medicare Continuing Care and Quality Assurance Act: enact (H.R. 4330), 3989 [6MR]

Medicare Discharge Appeals Opportunity Act: enact (H.R. 4275), 3272 [27FE], 5581 [19MR]

Medicare Fair Hospital Deductible Act: enact (H.R. 4620), 8049 [17AP], 33671 [17OC]

Medicare Home Maintenance Organization Quality Improvement Act: enact (H.R. 5360), 19726 [7AU]

Medicare Mandatory Assignment Act: enact (H.R. 5741), 33636 [17OC]

Medicare Part C—Catastrophic Health Insurance Act: enact (H.R. 4287), 9690 [6MY], 33631 [17OC]

Medicare Quality Protection Act: enact (H.R. 4638), 7879 [17AP], 11980 [22MY]

Medicare Skilled Nursing Home Quality Care amendments: enact (H.R. 5450), 32671 [16OC]

Medicare Timely Payment Amendments: enact (H.R. 5053), 14753 [19JN]

Medicare Vision and Occupational Therapy Benefit Improvement Act: enact, 11974 [22MY]

Mentally handicapped: services and benefits (H.R. 4327), 3622 [5MR]

Multiple sclerosis: establish eligibility rules for benefits (H.R. 5474), 22186 [15AU]

National Committee To Preserve Social Security and Medicare: commendation by mayor of New York, NY, 30152 [9OC]

———lobbying activities, 10557, 10562 [13MY], 11123 [15MY], 11602, 11608-11616 [21MY], 12529 [4JN]

———tribute, 12290 [3JN], 30411 [10OC]

New Jersey: task force on catastrophic and long-term health insurance for the elderly, 16974 [17JY]

Nursing homes: require private to equal average percentage to medicare recipients of the State in order to receive benefits (H.R. 5344), 19622 [6AU]

Older persons: health care expenses, 1750 [5FE]

Organ procurement: establish national standards and a national registry (H.R. 5587), 25881 [24SE]

President's Council on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention: enact S. 2057, 32248 [16OC]

Public Employees Social Security Equity Act: enact (H.R. 5285), 18033 [29JY]

Public Pension Parity Act: enact (H.R. 5286), 18031 [29JY]

Reform: proposal, 7836 [17AP]

———proposals, 13890 [16JN]

Religious organizations: employee Social Security coverage, 4848 [13MR]

Rural areas: health care reimbursement policies (H.R. 4788), 10204 [8MY]

Social Security Administration: establish as an independent agency (H.R. 4647), 8219-8221 [21AP]

Social Security Disability Determination Act: enact (H.R. 4936), 12538 [4JN]

Social Security Minor and Technical Changes Act: enact (H.R. 2005), appointment of conferees, 1943 [6FE], 2668 [25FE], 17028 [21JY]

———enact (H.R. 2005), conference report, 29399 [7OC]

Social Security Procedural Improvements Act: enact (H.R. 4419), 5327 [18MR]

Social Security Trust Funds Safeguard Act: enact (H.R. 4067), 1022 [29JA], 17009 [17JY]

SSI: concurrent notification of eligibility for medicaid benefits to certain handicapped (H.R. 4450), 5560 [19MR]

———continued benefits to certain workers with medical impairment (H.R. 4450), 5560 [19MR]

———improve (H.R. 4471), 5855 [20MR]

SSI Program: improve (H.R. 5595), 27326 [30SE], 27333 [2OC]-27334 [30SE]

———improve (H.R. 5595), Senate amendment, 31937 [15OC], 32180 [16OC]

Trust funds: disinvestment, 21409 [13AU]

———disinvestment (H.R. 3738), 17294 [24JY]

———prohibit disinvestment (H.R. 5050), 14485 [18JN], 15615 [25JN], 17273, 17275 [22JY], 17293 [23JY]-17294 [22JY]

———restore financial stability, 13900 [17JN]

Work Incentive Program: revised, 13392 [11JN]

Remarks in Senate

Adoption: Dept. of HHS publication of statistical data (S. 2476), 11329 [20MY]

AFDC: training and employment of recipients (S. 2657), 17104 [21JY]

———work opportunities and retraining compact (S. 2513), 12491-12494 [4JN], 12799 [5JN]

Aged: remove 3-percent threshold on cost of living adjustments, 18505-18508 [31JY]

Aid to Families and Employment Transition Act: enact (S. 2579), 14614 [19JN]

Aid to Families with Dependent Children-Unemployed Parent Program: funding, 33306 [17OC]

Benefits checks: payments for costs of printing and mailing (S. 260), 15440 [25JN]

Budget: exempt Social Security benefits under requirement to achieve balanced, 4421-4432 [12MR]

Children: medical assistance to low-income families (S. 2667), 17124 [21JY]

Congressional budget: setting forth for 1987-89 (S. Con. Res. 120), funding for education, 8918-8932 [29AP]

———setting forth for 1987-89 (S. Con. Res. 120), medicare funding, 8908-8918 [29AP]

———setting forth for 1987-89 (S. Con. Res. 120), restore funding to the Older Americans Act, 9284-9285 [1MY]

Connecticut Hospice: provide for waiver of certain requirements, 28347 [3OC]

Cost of Living Adjustment Reform Act: enact (S. 2450), 10616-10623 [14MY]

Cost of living adjustments: eliminate 3% trigger (S. 2450), 10871 [15MY]

———fiscal 1987 benefits (S. Res. 375), 6563 [27MR], 6768 [8AP]

Courts: exempt retired Federal judges on active duty from Social Security coverage (S. 2109), 2855 [26FE]

Dept. of HHS: establish demonstration project for veterans (S. 2482), 11721 [21MY]

———provide for regional referral centers for States previously under waiver, 27910 [2OC]

Donation of organs: protocols for hospitals participating in medicaid and medicare programs (S. 2808), 22585 [10SE]

Drugs: provide immunosuppressive drugs to organ transplant centers (S. 2540), 13137 [10JN]

Employment Opportunities for Disabled Americans Act: enact (S. 2209), 5426 [19MR], 18127 [30JY], 29526, 29530 [8OC]

Enactment: anniversary, 2757 [25FE]

Fair Deal Capital Payment Act: enact (S. 2121), 3182-3185 [27FE]

Family Assistance and Child Support Enforcement Administrative Improvements Act: enact (S. 2371), 8692 [24AP]

Federal aid programs: access to benefits for homeless, 26732-26735 [27SE]

Federal employees: extend interim retirement plan for certain (S. 2385), 8944 [29AP]

Federal Employees Benefits Improvement Act: amend (S. 2020), 1741 [5FE]

———enact (S. 2020), 562 [27JA]

Federal Health Care Auditing and Quality Control Improvement Act: enact (S. 2625), 15873-15898 [26JN]

Handicapped: disability insurance program (S. Con. Res. 167), 29931 [9OC]

———SSI and medicaid benefits during employment, 30317 [10OC]

Health: Harvard medicare project recommendations, 5698 [20MR]

———increase payment amount for inpatient hospital services (S. 2432), 10085 [8MY]

———national expenditure survey (S. 2167), 4125-4129 [10MR]

———payment rate for elderly in health maintenance organizations, 9790 [7MY]

———physician payment reform, 33305 [17OC]

———rural health care improvement, 33305 [17OC]

Health Care Innovation Act: enact (S. 2474), 11325-11329 [20MY]

Health insurance: access (S. 2402), 9307 [1MY]

———access (S. 2403), 9312 [1MY]

Immunosuppressive Drug Therapy Act: enact (S. 2536), 13130-13132 [10JN], 29424-29427 [8OC]

Infant Mortality Prevention Act: enact (S. 2288), 7322-7323 [11AP], 7794 [16AP]

Investments: disinvestment of interest-bearing assets held in trust funds, 33306 [17OC]

Medicaid: allow States to offer home and community-based services to low-income individuals, 33904 [6NO]

———amend waiver authority to allow States to offer certain health services to AIDS patients (S. 2527), 12947 [6JN]

———benefit equity, 360 [23JA]

———cost reduction (S. 2776), 21935 [15AU]

———coverage for illegal aliens, 16410 [15JY]

———coverage for illegal aliens (S. 2644), 16440 [15JY]

———eligibility, 60 [21JA]

———explanation of program costs, 251 [22JA]

———funding for long-term care of developmentally disabled persons, 27140 [30SE]

———lithotripter, 28506 [3OC]

———maintain health care to the poor and the elderly, 33301, 33306 [17OC]

———prenatal, delivery, and postpartum care of low-income pregnant women (S. 2667), 17124 [21JY]

———prenatal and postpartum care to low-income pregnant women (S. 2333), 7986-7991 [17AP], 8149 [21AP]

———provide coverage of low-income elderly and disabled poor (S. 2492), 11737 [21MY]

———quality control, 14559 [19JN]

———services to children of low-income families (S. 2649), 16630 [16JY]

———services to pregnant women and infants (S. 2650), 16631 [16JY]

———standards for participating nursing homes (S. 2604), 15961-15965 [26JN]

Medical care: prospective payment rates for outpatient maintenance dialysis services (S. 2646), 16618 [16JY]

Medical students: medicare reimbursement in ambulatory care settings (S. 2670), 17237 [22JY]

Medical University of South Carolina: provide waiver of certain medicaid requirements, 28376 [3OC]

———waiver of certain requirements relative to care and services (S. 2825), 23570 [16SE]

Medicare: additional members on Physician Payment Review Commission, 15934, 16019, 16044, 16052 [26JN]

———additional members on Physician Payment Review Commission (S. 2602), 15952 [26JN]

———annual preventive health checkup (S. 2400), 9305 [1MY]

———assistance for disabled (S. 873), 11261 [20MY], 13670 [13JN], 15311 [25JN], 16538 [16JY], 31249 [15OC]

———beneficiaries and nursing home care, 29856 [9OC]

———capital payments, 12767 [5JN]

———catastrophic illness coverage, 24812 [19SE]

———certification and recertification of the need for certain services and coverage of these services (S. 2920), 30267 [10OC]

———congressional hearings on payment system, 10752 [15MY]

———cost reduction (S. 2776), 21935 [15AU]

———costs for nonemergency care, 5358 [19MR]

———coverage for disabled (S. 2686), 17574 [24JY]

———coverage of physician assistant services (S. 1640), 27293 [30SE]

———enrollment requirements for State and local government employees, 24813, 24831, 24877-24879 [19SE]

———ensure quality hospital care for beneficiaries, 5438 [19MR]

———establish demonstration project for veterans (S. 2482), 11721 [21MY]

———exemption of certain cancer research and treatment centers from prospective payment system (S. 2786), 21963 [15AU]

———funding for research into medical treatments and surgical procedures (S. 2001), 162-164 [21JA]

———funding for research of medical treatments and surgical procedures (S. 2114), 3171 [27FE]

———graduate medical education in ambulatory care settings (S. 2670), 17237 [22JY]

———Harvard medicare project recommendations, 5698 [20MR]

———hospital capital costs, 12909 [6JN]

———improve access to, and quality of program (S. 2655), 16853-16855 [17JY]

———increase payment amount for inpatient hospital services (S. 2432), 10085 [8MY]

———inpatient hospital deductible (S. 2341), 8118 [21AP]

———maintain health care for the poor and the elderly, 33301, 33306 [17OC]

———optional catastrophic, long-term, and preventive benefits through prepaid plans (S. 2358), 8535 [23AP], 13081 [10JN]

———Participating Physician Program, 28336 [3OC]

———payment rate for elderly in health maintenance organizations, 9790 [7MY]

———payment system, 4709 [13MR]

———payments to rural hospitals serving disproportionate number of low-income patients, 24899 [19SE]

———physician payment reform, 11265 [20MY]

———prompt payment of claims, 24895 [19SE]

———protect rights of kidney dialysis treatment patients (S. 2547), 13546 [12JN], 14191 [17JN]

———reduction in payments for cataract surgery, 25052 [19SE]

———reimbursement rates of kidney dialysis clinics, 21907 [15AU]

———require timely payment of claims (S. 2576), 14609-14613 [19JN], 17401 [23JY]

———services to VA beneficiaries (S. 2174), 4314 [11MR]

———standards for participating nursing homes (S. 2604), 15961-15965 [26JN]

———treatment of small rural hospitals (S. 2410), 26961 [29SE]

Medicare Beneficiary Protection Act: enact (S. 2122), 3185 [27FE]

Medicare Home Health Care Improvement Act: enact (S. 2494), 11741-11742 [21MY]

Medicare Information Act: enact (S. 2554), 13711-13717 [13JN]

Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act: enact (S. 2368), 8686-8691 [24AP], 17101 [21JY]

Medicare Quality Protection Act: enact (S. 2331), 7969-7978 [17AP], 16011 [26JN]

Monroe County, NY: coverage for certain additional employees (S. 2897), 27278 [30SE]

National Committee To Preserve Social Security: fundraising activities, 8280 [22AP]

National Council on Access to Health Care: establish (S. 1620), 3206 [27FE], 29419 [8OC]

National Pension Day: designate (S.J. Res. 320), 7408 [14AP]

Nursing homes: patients' rights in long-term facilities (S. 2119), 3180 [27FE]

Pensions: eliminate benefit disparity known as notch problem (S. 2892), 27273 [30SE]

———protection for certain benefits, 24899-24905 [19SE], 25745 [24SE]

Physician Payment Review Commission: additional members (S. 2602), 15952 [26JN]

Poverty: reverse trend toward children and elderly (S. 1194), 5411 [19MR]

Pregnancy: prenatal and postpartum care to low-income women under medicaid (S. 2333), 7986-7991 [17AP]

President's Council on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention: establish (S. 2057), 1897, 1898 [6FE], 3732 [5MR]

———funding, 22553 [10SE]

President's Council on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Act: enact (S. 2057), 13830-13833 [16JN]

Public financing: prohibit use of trust fund during debt limit crisis, 17373 [23JY], 17544, 17589 [24JY]

———provide adequate coverage for trust funds, 18746-18753 [1AU]

Public welfare: effort to provide direct cash assistance, 20570 [11AU]

Roper, William L.: recipient of Lloyd Noland Health Pioneer Award, 27989 [2OC]

Rural Health Care Improvement Act: enact (S. 2410), 9661-9663 [6MY], 9922-9924 [7MY], 26961 [29SE]

Shapiro, George: tribute, 20543 [11AU]

Social Security Minor and Technical Changes Act: enact (H.R. 2005), 2073 [7FE], 23579 [16SE]

———enact (H.R. 2005), appointment of conferees, 2073 [7FE]

Social Security Trust Fund: disinvestment, 21871 [15AU]

Social Security Trust Funds Management Act: enact (S. 2542), 13285-13290 [11JN], 13723 [13JN]

SSI Program: improve (H.R. 5595), 29528 [8OC], 33812 [18OC]

Support of dependents: prohibit retroactive modification of arrearages (S. 2404), 9416 [5MY]

Taxation: exemptions for certain clergy, 14366-14370, 14373 [18JN]

Trust funds: safeguard, 3950 [6MR]

———safeguard (S. 2133), 3542 [4MR]

Women: prenatal, delivery, and postpartum care of low-income pregnant persons (S. 2667), 17124 [21JY]

Reports

Federal Response to the Homeless Crisis: Committee on Government Operations (excerpt), 26733 [27SE]

Future of Medicare: Harvard medicare project, 5698-5702 [20MR]

Medicaid: Center for Social Policy (excerpt), 60 [21JA], 361 [23JA]

Medicare Costs: OTA (excerpt), 5359 [19MR]

Medicare Skilled Nursing Home Quality Care Amendments (excerpt), 32671 [16OC]

National Medical Expenditure Survey and Its Policy Applications, 4127 [10MR]

Prenatal Services Offered Under Medicaid: Institute of Medicine, 7989 [17AP]

Social Security Administration (excerpt), 17284 [22JY]

Social Security Coverage of Religious Organizations' Employees (excerpt), 4848 [13MR]

Social Security Disinvestment: Library of Congress (excerpt), 13286 [11JN]

Reports filed

Authorization for Continued Payments of Supplemental Security Income Benefits; Concurrent Notification of Eligibility, Medicaid; and GAO Study: Committee on Finance (S. 2209) (S. Rept. 99-466), 25130 [22SE]

Establish Social Security Administration as Independent Agency: Committee on Ways and Means (H.R. 5050) (H. Rept. 99-680), 16745 [16JY]

Establishment of National Council on Access to Health Care: Committee on Governmental Affairs (S. 1620) (S. Rept. 99-489), 26179 [25SE]

Grants to States for Drugs for Organ Transplant Patients: Committee on Labor and Human Resources (S. 2536) (S. Rept. 99-389), 20551 [11AU]

Improvements in SSI Program: Committee on Ways and Means (H.R. 5595) (H. Rept. 99-893), 26369 [25SE]

Medicare and Medicaid Patient and Program Protection Act: Committee on Finance (H.R. 1868) (S. Rept. 99-520), 27994 [2OC]

President's Council on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention: Committee on Labor and Human Resources (S. 2057) (S. Rept. 99-307), 11713 [21MY]

Social Security Minor and Technical Changes Act: committee of conference (H.R. 2005) (H. Rept. 99-962), 28331 [3OC]

———Committee on Rules (H.R. 2005; H. Res. 577) (H. Rept. 99-975), 29386 [7OC]

Statements

Catastrophic Health Care for the Elderly: Paul Willging, 13081 [10JN]

Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Dentistry: American Dental Association, 13831 [16JN]

Homecare Quality Assurance Act: Robert B. Helms, 33611 [17OC]

Impact of Prospective Payment System on Small and Rural Hospitals: Montana Hospital Association, 9662 [6MY]

Maternal and Child Health Press Conference: Senator Durenberger, 7988 [17AP]

Medicaid Nursing Facility Quality Care Amendment: National Academy of Sciences (excerpt), 22232 [15AU]

Medicare Costs: Carolyne Davis, 5359 [19MR]

Medicare Coverage: Otis R. Bowen, 24812 [19SE]

———Robert Butler, 24812 [19SE]

Medicare Program: Committee on Ways and Means, 6165 [25MR]

Variations in Medical Practice: John Bunker (excerpt), 10221 [8MY]

Work Incentive Program (sundry excerpts), 13392 [11JN]

Summaries

Access to Health Care Act (S. 2402), 9310 [1MY]

Access to Health Care Act (S. 2403), 9317 [1MY]

Fair Deal Capital Payment Act (S. 2121), 3184 [27FE]

Health Care Innovation Act (S. 2474), 11328 [20MY]

Homecare Quality Assurance Act (H.R. 5680), 30449 [10OC]

Medicaid Nursing Facility Quality Care Amendment (H.R. 5450), 22232 [15AU]

Medicare Continuing Care and Quality Assurance Act (H.R. 4330), 3990 [6MR]

Medicare Coverage for the Mentally Handicapped (H.R. 5090), 15648 [25JN]

Medicare Quality Protection Act (H.R. 4638), 7879 [17AP]

Medicare Quality Protection Act (S. 2331), 7970-7972 [17AP]

Medicare Timely Payment amendments (S. 2576), 14610 [19JN]

Rural Health Care Improvement Act (H.R. 4788), 10204 [8MY]

Work Opportunities and Retraining Compact (S. 2513), 12493 [4JN]

Tables

Benefit amounts for various workers in identical circumstances except date of birth, 27274 [30SE]

Comparison of AFDC-UP, no program, and EWP, 17108 [21JY]

Cost comparisons for birth weight infants: Southern Regional Task Force on Infant Mortality, 7990 [17AP]

Cost of living adjustments, 30210, 30212, 30213 [10OC]

Estimated Social Security funds at end of year, 13286 [11JN]

President's budget proposals, 2503 [20FE]

Preventing low birthweight: Institute of Medicine, 7990 [17AP]

Testimonies

Long-Term Care of Developmentally Disabled Persons: Mental Retardation Association of America, 27140 [30SE]

Medicare Claims Processing: GAO, 14709 [19JN]

———Luther Carter, 14709 [19JN]

———William R. Felts, 14709 [19JN]

Prohibit Disinvestment of the Social Security Trust Fund: James Roosevelt, 17009 [17JY]

———Representative Clinger, 17009 [17JY]

Texts of

Disability Insurance Program management, 30448 [10OC]

H.J. Res. 668, increase statutory public debt limit, 20365-20378 [9AU]

H.R. 1916, correct benefits disparity known as notch problem, 9002 [29AP]

H.R. 4065, Medicare Beneficiary Protection Act, 1314 [30JA]

H.R. 4471, SSI improvement, 5856 [20MR]

H.R. 4620, Medicare Fair Hospital Deductible Act, 8049 [17AP]

H.R. 4739, coverage of adult day care under medicare, 9549 [6MY]

H.R. 5050, establish Social Security Administration as an independent agency, 17275-17283 [22JY]

H.R. 5053, Medicare Timely Payment Amendments, 14753 [19JN]

H.R. 5474, establish eligibility rules for benefits for multiple sclerosis victims, 22188 [15AU]

H.R. 5595, improve the SSI Program, 29528 [8OC]

H.R. 5595, improve the SSI program, 27326-27329 [30SE]

H.R. 5680, Homecare Quality Assurance Act, 33611-33614 [17OC]

S. 1620, National Council on Access to Health Care, 29418 [8OC]

S. 2001, funding for research into medical treatments and surgical procedures, 163 [21JA]

S. 2020, Federal Employees Benefits Improvement Act, 562-567 [27JA]

S. 2057, President's Council on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, 32250 [16OC]

S. 2057, President's Council on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Act, 13832 [16JN]

S. 2114, medicare funding for research of medical treatments and surgical procedures, 3172 [27FE]

S. 2121, Fair Deal Capital Payment Act, 3183 [27FE]

S. 2167, national health care expenditure survey, 4128 [10MR]

S. 2174, medicare services to VA beneficiaries, 4314 [11MR]

S. 2209, Employment Opportunities for Disabled Americans Act, 5426 [19MR], 29526-29527 [8OC]

S. 2331, Medicare Quality Protection Act, 7972-7976 [17AP]

S. 2333, prenatal and postpartum care to low-income pregnant women under medicaid, 7987 [17AP]

S. 2341, medicare inpatient hospital deductible, 8119 [21AP]

S. 2368, Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act, 8687 [24AP]

S. 2371, improve AFDC program and child support enforcement, 8692 [24AP]

S. 2400, medicare coverage of annual preventive health checkup, 9306 [1MY]

S. 2402, Access to Health Care Act, 9308-9310 [1MY]

S. 2403, Access to Health Care Act, 9314-9317 [1MY]

S. 2404, amend to prohibit retroactive modification of arrearages, 9417 [5MY]

S. 2410, Rural Health Care Improvement Act, 9661 [6MY]

S. 2450, Cost of Living Adjustment Reform Act, 10617 [14MY]

S. 2474, Health Care Innovation Act, 11326-11327 [20MY]

S. 2476, require States to furnish and the Dept. of HHS to publish, statistical data relating to the incidence of adoption, 11331 [20MY]

S. 2482, medicare demonstration project for veterans, 11722 [21MY]

S. 2492, medicaid coverage of low-income elderly and disabled poor, 11739 [21MY]

S. 2494, Medicare Home Health Care Improvement Act, 11742 [21MY]

S. 2513, work opportunities and retraining compact, 12800-12802 [5JN]

S. 2527, medicaid-waiver authority to allow States to offer certain health services to AIDS patients, 12948 [6JN]

S. 2536, Immunosuppressive Drug Therapy Act, 13130 [10JN], 29424 [8OC]

S. 2542, Social Security Trust Funds Management Act, 13288 [11JN]

S. 2547, protect rights of medicare kidney dialysis treatment patients, 13547 [12JN], 14191 [17JN]

S. 2554, Medicare Information Act, 13714 [13JN]

S. 2576, require timely payment of medicare claims, 14610 [19JN], 17401 [23JY]

S. 2579, Aid To Families and Employment Transition Act, 14616 [19JN]

S. 2600, payments for costs of printing and mailing of checks, 15440 [25JN]

S. 2604, Nursing Home Quality Reform Act, 15962-15965 [26JN]

S. 2625, Federal Health Care Auditing and Quality Control Improvement Act, 15885 [26JN]

S. 2644, medicaid coverage for illegal aliens, 16441 [15JY]

S. 2646, make no change in prospective payment rates for outpatient maintenance dialysis services, 16618 [16JY]

S. 2657, training and employment of AFDC recipients, 17105-17106 [21JY]

S. 2667, Infant Mortality Reduction and Child Health Act, 17125 [21JY]

S. 2776, Health Care Financing Reform Act amendments, 21935-21942 [15AU]

S. 2825, Medical University of South Carolina waiver of certain requirements relative to care and services, 23571 [16SE]

S. 2892, eliminate retirement benefit disparity known as notch problem, 27274 [30SE]

S. 2897, coverage for certain Monroe County, NY, employees, 27278 [30SE]

S. 2920, medicare certification and recertification of the need for certain services and coverage of these services, 30268 [10OC]

S. Con. Res. 167, disability insurance program, 29931 [9OC]

S. Res. 375, Social Security cost of living adjustments, 6563 [27MR]

S. Res. 420, prompt payment of medicare claims, 12496 [4JN]