SOCIAL SECURITY ACT see also Public Welfare

Addresses

State of the Union: President Reagan, 17682 [26JN]

Advertisements

Senior Citizens—Call Senator Exon Today or Get Stuck With the Bill Tomorrow: Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association, 26129 [1OC]

Amendments

AFDC: in-kind assistance to recipients (S. 1793), 28406, 28434 [20OC]

———replace with program emphasizing work and need-based supplements, and help children and parents obtain education and job training (H.R. 3644), 34631 [9DE]

———restructure (H.R. 1720), 19901 [15JY], 21379 [28JY], 31964 [16NO], 32553 [17NO], 32702 [18NO], 34631 [9DE], 35872, 35881-35894 [16DE]

Cost of living increases: eliminate for Federal programs in fiscal 1988 (S. 1859), 32050 [17NO]

Medicare Catastrophic Protection Act: enact (H.R. 2941), 20732, 20737-20744 [22JY]

Older Americans Act: skilled nursing and intermediate care facilities (H.R. 395), 33776 [2DE]

SSI: in-kind assistance to recipients (S. 1793), 28406, 28434 [20OC]

Analyses

Catastrophic Illness Aid for Children: Senator Weicker, 29382 [27OC]

Long-Term Care Amendments, 30262 [29OC]

Medicaid Home and Community Quality Services Act (S. 1673), 23763 [10SE]

Medicaid Infant Mortality Act (H.R. 1018), 3168 [5FE]

Medicare and Medicaid Patient and Program Protection Act (H.R. 1444), 4964 [5MR]

Medicare Periodic Competency Certification of Physicians (H.R. 3231), 23062 [7AU]

Partnership Act (S. 862), 7056-7061 [26MR]

Rural Health Care Viability Act (S. 1390), 16648 [18JN]

Social Security Support for Hospitals in Meeting Indigent Care Costs (H.R. 3128), 22571 [5AU]

Appeal

Congress, the Administration, and the American People—Time for Decisive Action—A Bipartisan Budget Plan, 31530 [10NO]

Appointments

Conferees: H.R. 2470, Medicare Catastrophic Protection Act, 34573 [9DE]

Articles and editorials

Bite the Deficit, Not Social Security, 35808 [16DE], 35945 [17DE], 36691 [20DE]

Catastrophic Illness Health Insurance, 29399 [27OC]

Caught in the MediGap, 17623 [25JN]

Cities Attacking the Wrong Target, 7061 [26MR]

Cut Social Security—Forget It—It's a Fair, Humane, Solvent Program, and It Works, 35766, 35788, 35807 [16DE]

Cutoff of Abortion Funds Doesn't Deliver Welfare Babies, 1169 [12JA]

Cutting Social Security, 31529 [10NO]

Elderly Care—A Case of Catastrophic Confusion?, 29376-29378 [27OC]

Expensive Babies, 1108 [8JA]

Family Welfare Reform Is Trojan Horse, 35837 [16DE]

Fine Proposal, 32989 [19NO]

Fooling Ourselves, 21509 [29JY]

Fraud Factor in Rising Medical Costs, 35578 [14DE]

Helpful Denver Man Wills $160,000 to Social Security, 3176 [5FE]

Human Analysis of Welfare System, 5674 [12MR]

Just Too Lavish, 29406 [27OC]

Lifting the Medical-Cost Cloud From the Elderly, 10285 [28AP]

Logical Reform Proposal for Federal Aid, 7061 [26MR]

Medicaid for All Poor New York Families, 13646 [21MY]

New Reagan Policy To Cut Benefits for the Aged, Blind and Disabled, 28406 [20OC]

``Notch Babies'' and ``Bonanza Babies'' a $300 Billion Misunderstanding, 11355 [6MY]

Nursing Costs Force Elderly To Sue Spouses, 29357 [27OC]

Our Fiscal Gorilla, 6440 [19MR]

Resource Allocation in Health Care—The Allocation of Lifestyles to Providers, 24691-24693 [21SE]

Rural Closures Go Beyond Payment and Into the Troubles of Rural Life, 34411 [8DE]

Set Capitol, National Rites for W.J. Cohen, 13696 [27MY]

Shameless Roosevelt Connection, 5293 [11MR]

Shattuck Lecture—What Is Quality Care?, 20590-20592 [21JY]

Social Security Lobby Group Is Said To Mislead Aged, 5294 [11MR]

Social Security Shouldn't Be on the Table, 32797 [19NO]

Sounder Social Security With Lower Taxes, 26406 [5OC]

St. Paul Woman Silently Carries Her Crusade for Disabled to Capitol Hill, 20676 [22JY]

Turf Threat, 7062 [26MR]

U.S., Facing Criticism, Drops Plan To Cut Benefits for Poor, 28407 [20OC]

Uncaring Medicare, 5216 [10MR]

Welfare Strait, 17900-17902 [26JN]

Welfare's Trojan Horse, 35690 [15DE]

We're Pocketing Money That Belongs to Our Patients, 13838 [27MY]

Whistle-Blower's Lawsuit Accuses Scripps Clinic, Eye Doctor of Fraud, 24031 [15SE]

Why Restructuring Medicare Will Not Work, 29376 [27OC]

Wrong Way Budget, 3176 [5FE]

Bills and resolutions

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome: medicare coverage (see S. 24)

ADFDC: elimination of 100-hour rule and work requirements for recipients (see H.R. 795)

———emergency assistance payments (see S. 37)

———emergency housing payments (see H.R. 1906)

———high school for recipients (see S. 1771)

———implement programs for self-sufficiency (see H.R. 1880)

———improve child support enforcement program and require States to establish work programs for AFDC families (see H.R. 3200)

———improve program

———in-kind assistance to recipients (see S. 1793)

———payments to minor parents living away from home (see H.R. 1129)

———replace with program emphasizing work and need-based supplements, and help children and parents obtain education and job training (see H.R. 3644)

———require each State to establish a comprehensive work program with an organized intake and registration process for AFDC families (see H.R. 3692)

———require States to establish employment, training, or education programs for participants (see H.R. 1696)

———restructure (see H.R. 1720)

———restructure (H.R. 1720), consideration (see H. Res. 310)

———uniform eligibility and benefit levels (see S. 862; H.R. 1831)

Aged: continue disability benefits during appeal (see S. 1937)

———cost of living adjustments for medicaid eligible individuals residing in long-term care facilities (see S. 1744)

———extend benefits of delayed retirement credit to surviving and divorced spouses who work (see S. 172)

———increases in benefits with regard to cost of living adjustments (see H.J. Res. 41)

———period of transition and formula with respect to workers born in years after 1916 and before 1930 (see S. 1830)

———transition benefits for spouses of insured individuals aged 50 (see H.R. 418)

Aliens: restrict payments (see H.R. 76)

Amend title II (see H.R. 2471)

Amend title XVIII (see H.R. 2470, 2474)

Armed forces: health care expenses for members and dependents not payable under medicare (see S. 166)

———modification of offset under military survivor benefit plan (see H.R. 2925)

———payment under CHAMPUS of certain medical expenses not covered under medicare (see H.R. 2934)

Benefits: amend provision on age 46 to 55 benefits (see H.R. 207)

———amend provision on outside income earned while receiving benefits (see H.R. 230)

———amend provision on death benefits (see H.R. 124, 228)

———amend provision on individuals achieving self-sufficiency (see S. 636)

———amend provision on delayed retirement credit to surviving spouses (see H.R. 213)

———amend provision on disability eligibility (see H.R. 205)

———amend provision on disabled wives and husbands (see H.R. 211)

———amend provision on essential spouses of disability beneficiaries (see H.R. 212)

———amend provision on increasing primary insurance rates (see H.R. 227)

———amend provision on individual entitled to disability insurance and other periodic benefits (see H.R. 214)

———amend provision on surviving spouse benefits (see H.R. 208, 209)

———amend provision on widow and widower benefits (see H.R. 206)

———clarify required income and resources for a noninstitutionalized spouse (see S. 773)

———combined earnings of husband and wife (see S. 3; H.R. 420, 674)

———computation formula (see H.R. 1721)

———computation formula for certain retirees (see H.R. 121)

———correct disparity (see S. 225; H. Con. Res. 11, 15)

———cost of living adjustments (see H.R. 2396)

———coverage of routine mammograms (see S. 1161)

———coverage of screening mammography (see H.R. 3573)

———coverage of pediatric or clinical nurse practitioner (see S. 94)

———coverage of years for caring of children (see H.R. 677)

———disability payments during administrative appeal of termination of benefits (see H.R. 2174)

———division of earnings of married couple during period of marriage (see S. 174)

———divorced spouses (see H.R. 419)

———eliminate certain reductions (see H.R. 2946)

———eliminate reductions in benefits in cases of spouses and surviving spouses receiving certain pensions (see H.R. 672)

———eliminate rounding of cost of living increases (see H.R. 2377)

———extend coverage, correct anomalies in payment provisions, make adjustments in disability offset, and make management improvements (see H.R. 2660)

———extend delayed retirement credit to surviving spouses (see S. 171)

———health coverage (see H.R. 2696)

———improve system (see S. 1635, 1648)

———increase amount of personal allowance for medical institutions (see H.R. 2053)

———increase outside earnings without reduction (see H.R. 351, 365)

———increases primary insurance amounts (see H.R. 1026)

———individual's years of coverage for computation of special minimum benefit (see S. 385)

———inheritance of earnings credits by surviving spouse (see S. 173)

———last monthly benefit payable in case of deceased (see H.R. 1289)

———limitation on outside income while receiving benefits (see H.R. 42, 248)

———monthly insurance payment for month in which recipient dies (see H.R. 551, 669)

———more gradual changes in 1977 computation rules as they apply to workers attaining age 65 in or after 1982 (see H.R. 1917)

———multiple sclerosis (see H.R. 612)

———outside income (see H.R. 421)

———payment of more than one monthly benefit to same individual (see H.R. 601)

———payment to disabled widows and widowers (see H.R. 210, 676)

———phase out earnings test for individuals at age 65 (see H.R. 1555)

———procedures for disability determinations (see H.R. 2117)

———procedures to prevent payments to deceased individuals (see H.R. 2129)

———proportional payment for month of death (see H.R. 1127, 1166)

———protect benefit levels of individuals becoming eligible for benefits in or after 1979 (see H.R. 1264)

———remove limitation on amount allowed to be earned while receiving benefits (see H.R. 1643)

———restore minimum (see H.R. 673)

———restrict use of term on advertisements and mailings when not associated with Social Security Administration (see S. 1469)

———retirement transition formula adjustment (see H.R. 1057)

———surviving spouses (see H.R. 422)

———taxation (see H.R. 468)

———tax-exempt status (see H.R. 697)

———transition payment to surviving spouse (see H.R. 675)

———vision, hearing, and dental services and prescription drugs (see H.R. 678)

———workers born after 1916 but before 1930 (see H.R. 3788)

———years of coverage for computing special minimum benefit (see S. 175)

Benefits formula (see S. 1917)

Black Lung Benefits Act: amend to prohibit reduction of disability benefits (see H.R. 2481)

Blind: eligibility for disability insurance benefits (see H.R. 1997)

Cards: assist employers in determining authenticity (see S. 72)

CHAMPUS: health care expenses for members of Armed Forces and dependents not payable under medicare (see S. 166)

Children: age limitation for termination of certain benefits (see H.R. 1978)

———expand child support enforcement program (see H.R. 3587)

———foster care and adoption assistance programs (see H.R. 2365, 2753)

———insurance for postsecondary school students (see H.R. 1976)

———medical assistance to chronically ill and disabled (see S. 1740)

———replace AFDC program with a comprehensive program of mandatory child support and work training (see S. 1511)

———stepchild's eligibility for child's insurance benefits (see H.R. 491)

Cigarettes: deposit revenues from excise tax increase to Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund (see H.R. 493)

Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act: exclude Social Security trust funds from definition of deficit (see H.R. 1965)

Cost of living increases: eliminate for Federal programs in fiscal 1988 (see S. 1859)

———semiannual basis (see H.R. 229)

Credit: repayment of advances made to certain States (see H.R. 3031)

Dental services: payment under medicare (see H.R. 465)

Diabetes: medicare coverage of therapeutic footwear (see H.R. 1325)

Disability: eliminate 5-month waiting period for benefits (see H.R. 643)

———hearings (see S. 417)

Disability insurance: amend provision relative to total family benefits (see H.R. 204)

———management (see S. Con. Res. 13; H. Con. Res. 35)

Domestic Volunteer Service Act: amend (see H.R. 1837)

Earnings test: phase out (see S. 1777; H.R. 620)

Election workers: exception from health insurance tax for election workers (see S. 1494; H.R. 1832)

Employment: benefit plan information requests (see H.R. 2570)

———limitation upon amount of earned outside income (see H.R. 2612)

ERISA: exception to anti-alienation and preemption provisions (see H.R. 2317)

———supplemental benefits (see H.R. 1961, 1962)

Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy: coverage (see H.R. 1833)

Families: child support guidelines (see S. 869)

———payment of survivors' benefits (see H.R. 1025)

———treat adopted child same as natural child for benefits eligibility (see H.R. 190)

Federal aid programs: quality control review procedures and standards in AFDC, medicaid, and food stamp programs (see S. 1440)

Federal Employees Health Care Freedom-of-Choice Act: enact (see S. 1162)

Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund: grants (see S. 1833)

Fish and fisheries: fish and shellfish processors (see H.R. 3780)

Handicapped: assist severely disabled in attaining or maintaining their maximum potential for independence (see H.R. 3454)

———eliminate 5-month waiting period for insurance benefits (see H.R. 767)

———procedures for disability determinations and reviews (see S. 178)

———qualifications for disability benefits (see H.R. 769)

———repeal definition of disability applicable to widows and widowers (see S. 170)

———waiting period for disability benefits for terminally ill persons (see H.R. 768, 800)

Health Care Innovation Act: enact (see S. 897)

Home care services: establish quality assurance system for medicare, medicaid, the Social Services Block Grant Program, and the Older Americans Act (see H.R. 1700)

———include additional services (see H.R. 1837)

———procedures and notification (see H.R. 3451)

Homecare Quality Assurance Act: enact (see S. 1166)

Homeless: SSI benefits (see H.R. 181)

Hospitals: condition of participation (see S. 689)

Housing: aged and disabled individuals in congregate facilities (see S. 599)

———authorize grants to States for construction or rehabilitation for AFDC families (see H.R. 1312)

———chronically mentally ill (see H.R. 2321)

———promote welfare of homeless and AFDC families (see H.R. 3366)

Income limitation: disregard certain assistance (see S. 1795)

Infant Health Demonstration Act: enact (see H.R. 3667)

Iowa: Social Security coverage for certain law enforcement officers and fire fighters (see H.R. 2691)

Local governments: taxation of Social Security benefits (see H.R. 115)

Lotteries: establish national to assist medicare, education and child care programs (see H.R. 133, 334)

Medicaid: assistance programs (see S. 1580)

———budget reconciliation relative (see H.R. 3188)

———benefits for families with dependent children (see H.R. 2627)

———benefits for the chronically mentally ill (see H.R. 2322)

———benefits to children and pregnant women (see S. 422)

———certification of certain services by nurses (see S. 101)

———coverage of gerontological nurse practitioner or specialist (see S. 126)

———coverage of certain clinical specialists' services (see H.R. 2218)

———coverage of clinical social worker services (see S. 168)

———coverage of pediatric or clinical nurse practitioner (see S. 94)

———coverage of psychiatric nurse practitioner or clinical specialist services (see S. 96)

———deduction from physician payments amounts owed under certain education assistance programs (see H.R. 2230)

———discrimination among physicians for repayment (see H.R. 3273)

———inclusion of licensed practical nurses' services (see H.R. 238)

———inclusion of registered nurses' services (see H.R. 237)

———protection against acute and transitional care costs (see H.R. 1930)

———Puerto Rico (see H.R. 1486)

———quality nursing care (see S. 1108)

———require skilled nursing facilities to participate in program (see H.R. 159)

———services for medically uninsured (see H.R. 1182)

———social worker services (see H.R. 1857)

———State discrimination in medical reciprocity standards (see H.R. 3410)

———State payment for reservation of nursing home beds (see H.R. 2153)

———treatment of couple's income and resources relative to eligibility of an institutionalized spouse (see H.R. 2131)

———uniform eligibility and benefit levels (see S. 862; H.R. 1831)

———veterans' benefits (see H.R. 1856)

Medicaid Catastrophic Coverage for Children Act: enact (see S. 1283)

Medicaid Community Spouse Safety Net Act: enact (see S. 776)

Medicaid Home and Community Quality Services Act: enact (see S. 1673)

Medicaid Residents' Dignity Act: enact (see H.R. 2915)

Medicaid Risk-Based Health Care Act: enact (see S. 1915)

Medical care: catastrophic illness preventive benefits (see S. 454)

———clarify reasonable and medically necessary standard in case of home health services (see H.R. 1911)

———continued payment of disability insurance benefits during appeal (see H.R. 3725)

———enforcement of standards for rights of patients in certain medical facilities (see H.R. 427)

———ensure access to quality care and contain costs of system (see H.R. 200)

———establish national catastrophic illness insurance program (see H.R. 406)

———flexible physician billing and payment arrangements (see H.R. 962)

———furnish comprehensive catastrophic benefits through prepaid plans (see H.R. 65)

———home care (see S. 1762)

———include nutritional counseling as home health service (see H.R. 428)

———nurse training and services (see S. 1765)

———past-due amounts owed by physicians under National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program shall be deducted from medicare and medicaid (see S. 1244)

———services furnished by a clinical social worker in a health maintenance organization (see H.R. 2738)

———stabilize rural care provisions (see H.R. 1829, 1830)

———treatment of small rural hospitals and sole community hospitals (see H.R. 1787)

———patients' rights in long-term care facilities (see H.R. 1883)

———protect beneficiaries from unfit practitioners (see S. 661)

———protection from unfit practitioners (see H.R. 704)

———24-hour, 7-day nursing service (see H.R. 3543)

Medical professionals: appeal of adverse determinations by peer review organizations (see H.R. 2058)

Medicare: accelerate inclusion of trust fund (see H.R. 1370)

———access to FDA-approved technologies (see S. 897)

———adult day care (see S. 1839; H.R. 550)

———amend provision relative to entitlement of widows and widowers (see H.R. 203)

———assist beneficiaries in understanding enrollment in various medical plans (see H.R. 2833)

———assistance to elderly in evaluating supplemental medical insurance policies (see H.R. 2072)

———catastrophic illness coverage of prescription drugs and insulin (see H.R. 2485, 2592)

———catastrophic illness coverage (see S. 454, 754; H.R. 1245, 1280, 1281, 2941, 2970)

———certification of certain services by nurses (see S. 101)

———change requirements for skilled nursing facilities (see H.R. 2770)

———chiropractor services (see H.R. 429)

———community nursing and ambulatory care on prepaid, capitated basis (see S. 1003, 1010; H.R. 1161)

———costs for inpatient services at rural hospitals (see S. 1768; H.R. 2708)

———coverage of certified nurse midwife services (see S. 124)

———coverage of clinical social workers (see S. 127)

———coverage of daily home health services (see S. 961)

———coverage of gerontological nurse practitioner or specialist (see S. 126)

———coverage of hospital-based comprehensive care program (see H.R. 679)

———coverage of personal emergency response systems (see H.R. 400)

———coverage of psychologist services (see S. 123, 140)

———coverage of routine mammograms (see S. 1161)

———coverage of therapeutic shoes to individuals with severe diabetic foot disease (see H.R. 2768)

———coverage of annual pap smears and mammograms (see H.R. 2482)

———coverage of certain clinical specialists' services (see H.R. 2218)

———coverage of certain physically or mentally impaired individuals at their own expense (see H.R. 1971)

———coverage of certain preventive care (see S. 1240)

———coverage of clinical social worker services (see S. 168)

———coverage of influenza vaccine and its administration (see S. 1044)

———coverage of mental health services (see H.R. 2886)

———coverage of mammogram (see H.R. 2935)

———coverage of pediatric or clinical nurse practitioner under medicare and medicaid (see S. 94)

———coverage of psychiatric nurse practitioner or clinical specialist services (see S. 96)

———coverage of psychologists (see H.R. 236)

———coverage of psychologist services under hospice program (see S. 97)

———coverage of therapeutic shoes due to diabetic foot disease (see S. 618)

———coverage of wigs and hairpieces for certain cases of alopecia (see H.R. 760)

———deductibles and coinsurance for certain services (see H.R. 3326)

———deduction from physician payments amounts owed under certain education assistance programs (see H.R. 2230)

———delay implementation of restrictions on use of periodic interim payment system (see H.R. 2066)

———delay payment methodology for physicians' services (see S. Con. Res. 15)

———denials for home health services (see H.R. 1907)

———dental services (see H.R. 465)

———eliminate discrimination relative to mental illness (see H.R. 1067, 1945)

———emergency assistance to participating hospitals (see H.R. 329)

———establish commission to study home health care benefits (see H.R. 3787)

———establish program to assist rural hospitals in cost-effective services (see S. 732)

———evaluation of reports on physician payment prior to changes in procedure (see H. Con. Res. 53)

———exemption of certain hospital units from prospective payment system

———extend waiver liability relative to home health services and hospice care (see H.R. 1909)

———Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund grants to small rural hospitals for cost-effective services (see S. 1207)

———financing from general revenues (see H.R. 423)

———GAO study of including different levels of extended care (see S. 283)

———hearing appeals before administrative law judges (see H.R. 3733)

———home care benefits (see S. 1076, 1616; H.R. 2070)

———hospital reimbursement policy (see S. 1548)

———hospitals classified as being located in an urban area for purposes of determining payments (see H.R. 3021)

———improve access of beneficiaries to extended care services (see H.R. 2138, 3802)

———improve program (see H.R. 2864)

———inclusion of licensed practical nurses' services (see H.R. 238)

———inclusion of registered nurses' services (see H.R. 237)

———influenza vaccine (see H.R. 514)

———limit denials of inpatient hospital services by peer review organizations (see H.R. 1519)

———limit penalty for late enrollment (see H.R. 2055)

———limitations imposed upon entitlement to extended care services (see S. 775)

———long-term care benefits (see S. 718; H.R. 1776)

———long-term care benefits for chronically ill individuals and children (see H.R. 2762)

———method for evaluation of pediatric heart transplant facilities (see S. 1450)

———notification by fiscal intermediaries of changes for home health agencies (see H.R. 1908)

———opposition to mandatory coverage of all State and local government employees (see H. Con. Res. 142)

———option for catastrophic illness (see H.R. 1182)

———optional insurance for coverage of certain gaps (see H.R. 784)

———part B benefits (see H.R. 3291)

———payment for service of registered nurses as surgery assistants (see H.R. 2918)

———payment methodology for physicians' services (see S. Con. Res. 56)

———payment to hospitals relative to capital-related costs (see H.R. 2510)

———personal emergency response system demonstrations (see H.R. 1030)

———physician and hospital capitation demonstration project (see H.R. 520)

———prescription drugs benefits for State and local government employees (see H.R. 2761)

———protect beneficiaries with risk-sharing contract (see S. 1582)

———protection against acute and transitional care costs (see H.R. 1930)

———provision of clinical psychological services in rural areas (see S. 93)

———publication of booklet with description of home health services (see H.R. 1910)

———qualifications on basis of disability (see H.R. 771)

———quality nursing care (see S. 1108)

———require periodic competency certification of physicians (see H.R. 3231)

———requirements for facilities caring for mentally retarded (see H.R. 2270)

———retain payment methodology for physician services (see H. Con. Res. 30)

———revise certain conditions for benefits for a spouse in an institution (see H.R. 1711)

———routine Papanicolaou tests and mammograms (see H.R. 540)

———rural hospitals (see H. Con. Res. 108)

———services furnished by a clinical social worker in a health maintenance organization (see H.R. 2738)

———social worker services (see H.R. 1857)

———special educational program for beneficiaries (see H.R. 977)

———State payment for coverage of persons below poverty level (see H.R. 1760, 1761, 1762)

———supplemental policy warning (see S. 921), 8041 [6AP]

———tax exemption for certain State and local government employees (see H.R. 1071)

———training and fellowship programs in geriatric medicine (see H.R. 398)

———24-hour, 7-day nursing service (see H.R. 3543)

———voluntary insurance option to cover certain gaps in coverage (see H.R. 680)

———voluntary private alternative coverage (see H.R. 3548), 29209 [26OC]

———waive 24-month waiting period for eligibility for acquired immune deficiency syndrome patients (see H.R. 276)

———waive late enrollment penalty for certain handicapped (see S. 176)

———welfare of spouses of institutionalized individuals (see S. 598)

Medicare Appeals Rights Preservation Act: enact (see S. 1857)

Medicare Catastrophic Illness Coverage Act: enact (see S. 592)

Medicare HMO/CMP Quality Improvement Act: enact (see H.R. 2675)

Medicare Private Health Plan Capitation Improvement Act: enact (see S. 1734)

Medicare Rural Hospital Payment Equity Act: enact (see S. 1438)

Medicare/medicaid: study alternatives to institutionalization (see H.R. 989)

Mental health: services of psychologist in rural health clinic (see H.R. 3038)

Mental health services: ambulatory, for those in supplementary medical insurance program (see S. 1209)

Older Americans Act: outreach and application assistance activities requirements (see H.R. 1996)

———skilled nursing and intermediate care facilities (see H.R. 395)

OTA: surgical transplant procedures (see H.R. 394)

Outside income (see H.R. 469, 770)

———remove limitation (see H.R. 421)

Peer Review Program: due process and equity (see H.R. 2116)

Pensions: address benefit disparity problem (see H. Con. Res. 72)

———benefits (see H.R. 3535)

———benefits for 1979 retirees (see H.R. 1357, 1358, 1359)

———benefits relative to decoupling changes (see H.R. 1027)

———eliminate earnings test for retiring individuals (see H.R. 1204)

———exchange of credits between old-age, survivors, and disability insurance system and civil service retirement system (see H.R. 417)

———off-budget treatment of Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund (see H.R. 703)

———private sector efforts to alleviate losses suffered by retirees and employees as a result of plan termination (see S. Con. Res. 58), 12300 [13MY]

———remove limitation on outside income (see S. 1953)

———restore benefit levels of workers reaching 65 in or after 1982 (see H.R. 416)

———retirement earnings test (see H.R. 3794)

———taxation of Social Security and certain railroad retirement benefits (see H.R. 504)

Personal emergency response systems: coverage for (see H.R. 400)

Poverty: replace AFDC Program with a revised program which will serve to reduce poverty among children and their families (see H.R. 1255)

———support for hospitals in meeting indigent care costs (see H.R. 3128)

Pregnant women: access to medical records (see H.R. 461)

Programs: establish independent agency to administer (see S. 34)

———improve (see H.R. 2795)

Public welfare: amend title XVIII to permit payment for services of physician assistants outside institutional settings (see S. 1230)

Puerto Rico: increase limit on annual Federal medical program payments (see S. 1339)

———increase Social Security funds for families with dependent children, blind, aged, and disabled (see H.R. 1402)

———medicaid (see H.R. 1486)

Religious organizations: exemption from coverage for members opposed to participation (see S. 1884; H.R. 114, 2259)

Rural areas: extended care through swing-beds (see H.R. 2115)

———payment for inpatient hospital services (see H.R. 2114)

Rural Health Care Viability Act: enact (see S. 1390)

San Juan County Nursing Home, UT relief (see S. 1828)

Sec. of HHS: maximum attorney's fee (see H.R. 2465)

———study improvement of health insurance for the aged (see H.R. 426)

Social Security Trust Funds Management Act: enact (see S. 33)

SSI: eligibility for benefits (see H.R. 3558)

———in-kind assistance to recipients (see S. 1793)

States: increase amount of social services block grants and require annual reports (see H.R. 1365)

———medical assistance to individuals with certain family income standards (see H.R. 3580)

———nondiscrimination in medical licensure and medical reciprocity standards (see H.R. 3241)

———permit coverage of individuals needing extensive home care (see H.R. 158)

———taxation of Social Security benefits (see H.R. 115)

Support of dependents: employment withholdings (see H.R. 1604)

Survivors' benefits: provisions for determining order of payment (see H.R. 1977)

Taxation: computation of alternative minimum tax and Social Security benefits (see S. 564)

———determination of Social Security benefits (see H.R. 367)

———floating rates (see H.R. 505)

———inclusion of Social Security or railroad retirement benefits in gross income for nonresident aliens (see H.R. 698)

———in-kind assistance (see H.R. 3505)

———make permanent provisions which permit or require disregarding of in-kind assistance to AFDC and SSI recipients (see H.R. 3512)

———portion of government pension which does not exceed maximum benefits payable under Social Security (see H.R. 1691)

———reduce (see H.R. 423)

———treatment of Conservation Reserve Program payments (see H.R. 1959)

———treatment of interest in determining whether Social Security or railroad retirement benefits are to be included in gross income (see H.R. 668)

———unemployment compensation and retirement benefits (see H.R. 233)

Trust funds: prevent disinvestment (see H.R. 702)

———prudent investments (see H.R. 1369)

VA: per diem subsidies paid for care of veterans in State homes (see H.R. 2978)

Veterans: health care deductibles and coinsurance amounts (see S. 603)

———waiver of deductibles and coinsurance (see H.R. 1571)

Vocational rehabilitation: reimburse necessary costs under State plans (see H.R. 3657)

Vocational Rehabilitation Agency Reimbursement Act: enact (see S. 1949)

Women: establishment and payment of working spouse's benefits (see H.R. 370)

Records system: report, 21738 (EC1642) [30JY]

Descriptions

Health Care Services in the Home Act (H.R. 1451), 23123 [7AU]

Explanations

Benefits improvement (H.R. 203-214), 876-878 [7JA]

Factsheets

Medicare Coverage of Catastrophic Illness (H.R. 1245), 4099 [25FE]

Social Security Reorganization Act (S. 765), 6013 [18MR]

Hearings

Committee on Aging (Special): impact of President's budget on programs for the aged, D151 [13MR]

Committee on Appropriations (House): Health Care Financing Administration (testimony), D166 [18MR]

———Social Security Administration (testimony from David P. Rall, Dorcas R. Hardy, Wayne A. Stanton, Duane Alexander, Lawrence E. Shulman, Carl Kupfer, Ruth L. Kirschstein, Betty H. Pickett, James B. Wyngaarden, Murray Goldstein, Donald A.B. Lindberg, and Doris H. Merritt), D136 [11MR]

Committee on Energy and Commerce: ensure physicians hearing and judicial review rights before exclusion from the medicare program (H.R. 1445) (testimony), D305 [30AP]

Committee on Finance: effect of deficit reduction efforts and structural changes on medicare and medicaid (testimony from Michael Zimmerman, Stuart Altman, Robert Rubin, Joshua Wagner, Karen Davis, Cynthia Polich, Jack A. Meyer, and John L. Palmer), D38 [29JA]

———hospital payment rates under the medicare program (testimony), D237 [7AP]

———quality of long-term health care (testimony), D288 [28AP]

———role and performance of utilization and quality control peer review organizations under medicare (testimony), D205 [27MR]

———social service and income maintenance programs (testimony from Otis R. Bowen, Sec. of HHS), D74 [23FE]

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: catastrophic illness care costs (testimony), D245 [8AP]

———catastrophic illness insurance for medicare beneficiaries (H.R. 1280, 1281), D241 [7AP]

Committee on the Judiciary (Senate): Retiree Benefits Security Act (S. 548) (testimony), D218 [1AP]

Committee on Ways and Means: budget reconciliation issues relating to medicare program, D387 [1JN]

———catastrophic illness coverage under medicare (testimony), D208 [30MR]

———catastrophic illness coverage under medicare (testimony from Representative Pepper, Robert Ball, Robert Myers, and public witnesses), D113 [4MR]

———catastrophic illness coverage under medicare (testimony from Representatives Bonker and Regula, Michael Zimmerman, and public witnesses), D134 [10MR]

———catastrophic illness coverage under medicare (testimony from Representatives Daub, Crane, D. French Slaughter, Jr., and Dreier), D107 [3MR]

———medicare budget (testimony), D222 [1AP]

———medicare hospital diagnosis related group margins (testimony from Nancy Gordon, Larry Simmons, Eleanor Chelimskey, and public witnesses), D96 [26FE]

———misleading and deceptive mailings to Social Security beneficiaries (testimony from Members of Congress, Dorcas R. Hardy, Donald D. Davis, James Roosevelt, and public witnesses), D134 [10MR]

———outpatient prescription drugs under medicare, D280 [23AP]

———physician payment under medicare part B (testimony from Philip R. Lee), D107 [3MR]

———Social Security and railroad retirement budget proposals, D121 [5MR]

Letters

Attorney fees: E.F. Martin, Jr., 15116 [9JN]

———Robert E. Francis, 14794-14796 [4JN]

———William Housman, 22702 [5AU]

Catastrophic illness insurance: Eleanor Chelimsky, 29900 [29OC]

———Laurence E. Ide, 29315 [27OC]

———Michael Zimmerman, 19059 [8JY]

———Senators Pryor and Domenici, 29363 [27OC]

Counting noncash assistance when calculating public assistance: Representative Wyden and several Representatives, 28532 [20OC]

Family Welfare Reform Act: Representative Ray, 35701 [15DE]

———Richard B. Dixon, 35697 [15DE]

———Sec. of HHS, 13676 [21MY]

Federal health plan costs, 29365 [27OC]

Financial care for spouses with catastrophic illnesses, 22138 [3AU]

Health care costs, 27721 [13OC]

High school for AFDC recipients: Emily K. O'Hara, 27099 [8OC]

MedAmerica proposal: several organizations, 11523 [6MY]

Medicaid Home and Community Quality Services Act: Consortium for Citizens With Developmental Disabilities, 23764 [10SE]

Medicaid reform amendments: Otis R. Bowen, Sec. of HHS, 21925 [31JY]

Medicare and eligibility of acquired immune deficiency syndrome patients: CBO, 17683-17685 [26JN]

———Roger Mentz, Dept. of the Treasury, 17685-17688 [26JN]

Medicare capital reimbursement for depreciation to hospital occupancy rates: Edward M. Gramlich, CBO, 13672 [21MY]

———Jack W. Owen, American Hospital Association, 13673 [21MY]

———John Rother, American Association of Retired Persons, 13673 [21MY]

Medicare Catastrophic Protection Act: National Council on the Aging, Inc., 20692 [22JY]

———Representative Gilman, 33197 [20NO]

Medicare coverage for orthopedic shoes: David R. Knighton, 4344 [26FE]

———Donnell D. Etzwiler, 4344 [26FE]

———Giles Kobilka and Priscilla Hollander, 4345 [26FE]

Medicare denial rate: Odessa, TX, health agency, 7739 [1AP]

Medicare Home Health Services Improvement Act: Cyril F. Brickfield, 9262 [22AP]

———Ronald F. Pollack, 9262 [22AP]

———William R. Hutton, 9262 [22AP]

Medicare hospital payment policies: Michael L. Graue, 24245 [16SE]

Medicare payments for prostate surgery: Stuart L. Brodsky, 21558 [29JY]

National Committee To Preserve Social Security and Medicare: critical recipient, 16664 [18JN]

Notch inequity: constituent, 25695 [30SE]

Representation: Norma Alm, 14164 [29MY]

———P.D. Morris, 14164 [29MY]

Small business burden of Social Security tax on employees tips: Cormney, K.A., 6220 [18MR]

Social Security disinvestment: Bruce Thompson, 467 [6JA]

Social Security penalties (sundry), 4034 [24FE]

Support of dependents: Drew Altman, 5553 [12MR]

Lists

Cosponsors of Pryor-Domenici amendment to Catastrophic Health Loss Prevention Act, 29364 [27OC]

Groups endorsing Social Security Disability Insurance Program reform, 617 [6JA]

Iowa cities affected by Social Security legislation, 16158 [16JN]

National Academy of Social Insurance Organizing Committee, 475 [6JA]

Need for legislation protecting medicare beneficiaries, 22027 [3AU]

Rural hospitals affected by medicare reimbursement policy, 21130 [24JY]

Supporters of bipartisan budget plan, 31530 [10NO]

Supporters of Senate amendment on medicare administrative law judge hearings, 27804 [14OC]

Mailgrams

Medicare Catastrophic Protection Act: National Association of Retired Federal Employees, 20697 [22JY]

Meetings

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Medicare and Medicaid Patient and Program Protection Act (H.R. 1444), D248 [8AP]

Committee on Finance: catastrophic illness care costs (S. 1127), D381 [28MY]

Committee on Ways and Means: protection against catastrophic medical expenses under the medicare program (H.R. 1280), D249 [8AP]

———Catastrophic Protection Act (H.R. 1281), D249 [8AP]

———Medicare and Medicaid Patient and Program Protection Act (H.R. 1444), D222 [1AP]

———protection against catastrophic medical expenses, D257 [9AP]

Memorandums

Background on the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare: House Committee on Ways and Means, 6685 [24MR]

Financial Effect of a Proposal To Liberalize the Earnings Test, 2194 [28JA]

Medicare Catastrophic Illness Coverage: Dept. of the Treasury, 14797 [4JN]

Memorials of legislature

California, 26157 [1OC]

Hawaii, 9324 [22AP]

Illinois, 22019 [3AU], 23080 [7AU]

Indiana, 6356 [19MR]

Maine, 18948 [8JY]

Massachusetts, 14327 [2JN], 16146 [16JN]

Michigan, 19900 [15JY], 20986 [23JY], 36150 [17DE]

New Mexico, 16191 [16JN]

Ohio, 22589 [5AU], 23571 [9SE]

Oklahoma, 12727 [18MY], 13737 [27MY]

Pennsylvania, 14327 [2JN]

South Carolina, 6356 [19MR]

Virginia, 9735 [24AP]

Messages

Agreement With France: President Reagan, 33250 [30NO]

Agreement With Spain: President Reagan, 9119 [21AP], 9285 [22AP]

Agreement With the Federal Republic of Germany: President Reagan, 18946 [8JY], 18979 [8JY]

Medicare Catastrophic Illness Coverage Act: President Reagan, 4003 [24FE], 4254 [26FE]

Motions

Medicare Catastrophic Protection Act: enact (H.R. 2470), recommit, 20759 [22JY]

Papers

Social Security—My Vision of How Social Security Should Serve and Educate the Public and Measure Its Service: Dorrith Leipziger, 7192 [27MR]

Petitions

Benefits: Boynton Beach, FL, City Council, 5143 [10MR]

———Lake Worth, FL, City Commission, 11617 [7MY]

———New York State Federation of Women's Clubs, 30650 [3NO]

Benefits disparity: Alpena County, MI, Board of Commissioners, 31526 [10NO]

———citizens of Fairless Hills, PA, 16147 [16JN]

———Coconut Creek, FL, City Council, 14953 [9JN]

———Davie, FL, Town Council, 18805 [7JY]

———Lauderdale Lakes, FL, City Council, 16642 [18JN]

———Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, FL, Town Commission, 14327 [2JN]

———Tamarac, FL, City Council, 14060 [28MY], 14327 [2JN]

Cost of living adjustments: Iowa Commission on Aging, 1230 [13JA]

Passage of H.R. 4938 and H.R. 5080: New York, NY, City Council, 111 [6JA]

Social conditions: June W. Depp, 26401 [5OC]

Polls of opinion

Medicare, 20753 [23JY]

Press conferences

Expanded mental health benefits: John C. Rother, American Association of Retired Persons, 12586 [15MY]

Proposals

Medicare catastrophic illness coverage: White House, 14798 [4JN]

Remarks in House

AFDC: implement programs for self-sufficiency (H.R. 1880), 7337 [31MR]

———improve child support enforcement program and require States to establish work programs for AFDC families (H.R. 3200), 24032 [15SE], 34999, 35004 [10DE], 35651 [15DE]

———payments to minor parents living away from home (H.R. 1129), 3445 [18FE]

———replace program with a comprehensive program of mandatory child support and work training (S. 1511), 24032 [15SE]

———require States to establish employment, training, or education programs for participants (H.R. 1696), 6150 [18MR], 6250 [18MR]

———restructure (H.R. 1720), 6280 [19MR], 13676 [21MY], 17899 [26JN], 19834 [15JY], 21569 [29JY], 22673 [5AU], 24032 [15SE], 24571 [21SE], 28451 [20OC], 28782 [21OC], 29772 [28OC], 31185 [5NO], 32077 [17NO], 32701, 32709 [18NO], 34352, 34353, 34354 [8DE], 34408, 34423 [8DE], 34669 [10DE], 34999, 35004 [10DE], 35649, 35653, 35655, 35681 [15DE], 35702 [18DE]-35703 [15DE], 35822-35906 [16DE], 36666 [19DE], 38260 [22DE]

———uniform eligibility and benefit levels (H.R. 1831), 7086 [26MR]

Aged: income limitations, 922 [7JA]

———medical care, 9658 [23AP]

———misinformation by certain public interest groups, 3889 [19FE]

———notch problem, 25916 [30SE]

———protection from deceptive mailing practices, 5983 [17MR]

———reduction in benefits, 35586 [14DE]

———repeal earnings test, 35651 [15DE]

———retirement earnings test (H.R. 3794), 36653 [19DE]

Amend title XVIII (H.R. 2470), 13832 [27MY], 14554 [3JN]

Benefits: computation rule application to workers attaining age 65 in or after 1982 (H.R. 1917), 7876 [2AP], 8080 [7AP], 9660 [23AP], 14394 [2JN], 24939, 24940, 24941 [23SE], 25041, 25053 [23SE], 25345 [25SE], 25688-25693, 25695-25701, 25719 [30SE], 25917, 25919, 25928, 25931, 25933 [30SE], 26214 [1OC], 26745, 26746, 26747, 26748 [7OC], 27160 [8OC], 29227 [27OC]

———catastrophic illness coverage, 2377 [29JA], 11248 [5MY], 19058 [8JY], 20104 [15JY]

———correct disparity (H.R. 2107), 9192 [21AP]

———disability payments during administrative appeal of termination of benefits (H.R. 2174), 10028 [27AP]

———earnings penalty, 12049 [12MY]

———extend coverage, correct anomalies in payment provisions, make adjustments in disability offset, and make management improvements (H.R. 2660), 15653 [12JN]

———computation formula (H.R. 1917), 7744 [1AP]

———computation formula for certain retirees (H.R. 121), 910 [7JA]

———coverage of screening mammography (H.R. 3573), 29712 [28OC]

———credit for amounts contributed to health care savings accounts (H.R. 955), 14207 [2JN]

———home services (H.R. 2070), 9007 [10AP]

———long-term care benefits under medicare (H.R. 1776), 6725, 6726 [25MR]

———long-term care protection, 35438 [11DE]

———medigap insurance policies (H.R. 3490), 29677 [28OC]

———outside income limitation, 4034 [24FE]

———outside income limitation (H.R. 42), 24573 [21SE]

———outside income limitation (H.R. 248), 927 [7JA]

———outside income limitation (H.R. 351), 1901 [22JA]

———outside income limitation (H.R. 469), 820 [7JA], 964 [7JA]

———outside income limitation (H.R. 2612), 14802 [4JN]

———phase out earnings test for individuals at age 65 (H.R. 1555), 5509 [11MR]

———procedures for disability determinations (H.R. 2117), 9654 [23AP]

———reform (H.R. 671-677), 1798 [21JA]

———rounding in cases of multiple checks, 1079 [8JA]

———treatment of small rural hospitals and sole community hospitals (H.R. 1787), 14242 [2JN]

———stabilize rural care provisions (H.R. 1829), 6959 [26MR]

Blue Ridge Haven East Convalescent Center: anniversary, 34650 [9DE]

Budget: cost of living adjustments for Social Security recipients, retired and Federal and military employees, 32687 [18NO]

———include Social Security in deficit reduction, 31280 [9NO]

———reconciliation relative to medicaid and part B of medicare (H.R. 3188), 23416 [7AU]

Catastrophic Illness Coverage Act: enact (H.R. 1245), 4106 [25FE]

Child support: employment withholdings (H.R. 1604), 9284 [22AP], 10176 [28AP]

Children: age limit for termination of certain benefits (H.R. 1978), 8288 [7AP]

———expand child support enforcement program (H.R. 3587), 30270 [29OC]

———foster care and adoptions (H.R. 2753), 17127 [23JN]

Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act: exclude Social Security trust funds (H.R. 1965), 8281 [7AP]

Cost of living adjustments, 31404 [9NO]

———freeze, 32876 [19NO]

Courts: attorney fees, 14794 [4JN]

Crime and criminals: health care fraud, 35578 [14DE]

Disability: benefits, 2670 [3FE]

———loss of benefits, 35014 [11DE]

———procedures for determinations (H.R. 2117), 9654 [23AP]

Domestic Volunteer Service Act: amend (H.R. 1837), 6961 [26MR]

Education: insurance for postsecondary school students (H.R. 1976), 8288 [7AP]

Elderly Earnings Opportunity Act: enact (H.R. 620), 2193 [28JA]

Emergency Aid to Homeless Families Act: enact (H.R. 437), 892 [7JA]

ERISA: supplemental benefits (H.R. 1961), 8270-8274 [7AP], 11284 [5MY]

Families: increases in primary insurance amounts (H.R. 1026), 26247 [1OC]

Family Security Act: enact (S. 1511), 24032 [15SE]

Family Welfare Reform Act (H.R. 1720): consideration (H. Res. 331), 35668 [15DE]

Federal aid programs: budget reductions, 3178 [5FE]

Fish and fisheries: fish and shellfish processors (H.R. 3780), 36495 [18DE]

Handicapped: assist severely disabled in attaining or maintaining their maximum potential for independence (H.R. 3454), 28167 [15OC], 36675 [19DE]

———management of disability insurance program (H. Con. Res. 35), 4039 [24FE]

———waste in Nation's programs, 13838 [27MY]

Health care facilities: patients' rights in long-term care facilities (H.R. 1883), 7593 [31MR]

Health Care Savings Account Act: enact (H.R. 955), 3166 [5FE]

Home Health and Hospice Care Waiver Extension Act: enact (H.R. 1909), 7738 [1AP], 10591 [29AP]

Home health care: procedures and notification (H.R. 3451), 26952 [7OC]

Home Health Communications Act: enact (H.R. 1908), 7738 [1AP], 10591 [29AP]

Home Health Informed Consumers Act: enact (H.R. 1910), 7738 [1AP], 10591 [29AP]

Home Health Medical Necessity Standards Act: enact (H.R. 1911), 10591 [29AP]

Home Health Prompt Reconsideration Act: enact (H.R. 1907), 7738 [1AP], 10591 [29AP]

Home health services: include additional services (H.R. 1837), 6961 [26MR]

Homecare Quality Assurance Act: enact (H.R. 1700), 6188 [18MR]

Homeless: provision of overnight shelter, 941 [7JA]

Homeless Emergency Relief Act: enact (H.R. 274), 892 [7JA]

Homeless Persons Survival Act: enact (H.R. 180), 941 [7JA]

House Rural Health Care Coalition: program, 9673 [23AP]

Medicaid: benefits for families with dependent children (H.R. 2627), 15109 [9JN]

———budget reconciliation (H.R. 3188), 23416 [7AU]

———catastrophic illness insurance for aged and handicapped, 4790 [4MR]

———catastrophic illness protection for low-income elderly (H.R. 1711, 1760, 1761, 1762), 6592 [23MR]

———coverage of certain clinical specialists' services under the Medicare and Medicaid Programs (H.R. 2218), 10618 [29AP]

———deduction from physician payments amounts owed under certain education assistance programs (H.R. 2230), 10867 [30AP]

———prenatal care for low-income women, 1108 [8JA]

———retarded children, 32989 [19NO]

———services and benefits for the chronically mentally ill, 11729 [7MY]

———social worker services (H.R. 1857), 7319 [30MR]

———State payment for coverage of persons below poverty level (H.R. 1760), 7317 [30MR]

———State payment for coverage of persons below poverty level (H.R. 1761), 7321 [30MR]

———State payment for coverage of persons below poverty level (H.R. 1762), 7311 [30MR]

———State payment for reservation of nursing home beds (H.R. 2153), 9684 [23AP]

———treatment of couple's income and resources relative to eligibility of an institutionalized spouse (H.R. 2131), 9666 [23AP]

———24-hour, 7-day nursing service (H.R. 3543), 28998, 29013 [22OC]

———uniform eligibility and benefit levels (H.R. 1831), 7086 [26MR]

Medicaid Infant Mortality Act: enact (H.R. 1018), 2947 [4FE], 3167 [5FE]

Medicaid Residents' Dignity Act: enact (H.R. 2915), 19282 [9JY]

Medical professionals: appeal of adverse determinations by peer review organizations (H.R. 2058), 8647 [9AP]

Medicare: adult day care (H.R. 550), 1063 [8JA], 6961 [26MR]

———AMA suit on doctor fee increases, 833 [7JA]

———assistance to elderly in evaluating supplemental medical insurance policies (H.R. 2072), 10856 [30AP]

———benefit denial appeal hearings, 26745 [7OC]

———benefits (H.R. 3291), 29920 [29OC]

———budget reconciliation (H.R. 3188), 23416 [7AU]

———catastrophic illness coverage, 20658 [22JY], 25436 [29SE]

———catastrophic illness coverage (H.R. 1280), 4443 [27FE]

———catastrophic illness coverage (H.R. 1245), 4046, 4049, 4050 [25FE], 4118, 4128, 4131 [25FE], 4443 [27FE], 5514 [11MR]

———catastrophic illness coverage (H.R. 2941), 20658 [22JY], 20714, 21193 [27JY], 21560 [29JY], 27163 [9OC]

———catastrophic illness coverage (H.R. 2970), 20657 [22JY]

———catastrophic illness coverage for aged and handicapped, 4932 [5MR], 4790 [4MR]

———catastrophic illness coverage through prepaid plans (H.R. 65), 10285 [28AP]

———change requirements for skilled nursing facilities (H.R. 2770), 17612 [25JN]

———community nursing and ambulatory care on a prepaid, capitated basis (H.R. 1161), 3894 [19FE]

———coverage of therapeutic shoes to individuals with severe diabetic foot disease (H.R. 2768), 17364 [24JN]

———coverage of annual pap smears and mammograms (H.R. 2482), 13313 [20MY]

———coverage of certain clinical specialists' services under the medicare and medicaid programs (H.R. 2218), 10618 [29AP]

———coverage of mammograms, 28306, 28342-28344 [19OC]

———coverage of mammogram (H.R. 2935), 30935 [4NO]

———coverage of therapeutic footwear (H.R. 1325), 11018 [4MY]

———deduction from physician payments amounts owed under certain education assistance programs (H.R. 2230), 10867 [30AP]

———delay implementation of restrictions on use of periodic interim payment system (H.R. 2066), 8922 [9AP]

———demonstration projects for personal emergency response systems (H.R. 1038), 3204 [5FE]

———establish commission to study home health care benefits (H.R. 3787), 36079 [17DE]

———hearings for individuals appealing a denial of benefits, 25688 [30SE]

———improve access of beneficiaries to extended care services (H.R. 3802), 36671 [19DE]

———improve program (H.R. 2864), 19286 [9JY]

———information program to beneficiaries of certain coverages (H.R. 977), 3189 [5FE]

———opposition to mandatory coverage of all State and local government employees (H. Con. Res. 142), 16427, 16428 [17JN]

———optional catastrophic illness coverage (H.R. 1182), 3467 [18FE]

———Part B premium increase, 26607 [6OC]

———patient care policies, 5216 [10MR]

———payment to hospitals relative to capital-related costs (H.R. 2510), 13672 [21MY]

———payment for mental illness (H.R. 1067), 12409 [13MY]

———payment for mental illness (H.R. 1067), technical corrections, 8065 [6AP]

———payments for mental health services (H.R. 2886), 18718 [1JY]

———payments for prostate surgery, 21558 [29JY]

———premium increase, 24058 [16SE], 24681, 24691 [21SE]

———protection against acute and transitional care costs (H.R. 1930), 7869 [2AP]

———reform (H.R. 678-680), 1801 [21JA]

———reform prospective payment system in rural hospitals, 17050 [23JN]

———require payments for physicians' services be made on an assignment-related basis (H.R. 1923), 7758 [2AP]

———require periodic competency certification of physicians (H.R. 3231), 23062 [7AU]

———requirements for facilities caring for mentally retarded (H.R. 2270), 11289, 11299 [5MY]

———revise certain conditions for benefits for a spouse in an institution (H.R. 1711), 8057, 8063-8065 [6AP]

———rural hospitals (H. Con. Res. 108), 9670, 9673 [23AP]

———services furnished by a clinical social worker in a health maintenance organization (H.R. 2738), 16970 [22JN]

———social worker services (H.R. 1857), 7319 [30MR]

———special educational program for beneficiaries (H.R. 977), 23665 [9SE]

———State payment for coverage of persons below poverty level (H.R. 1760), 8285 [7AP]

———State payment for coverage of persons below poverty level (H.R. 1761), 8285 [7AP]

———State payment for coverage of persons below poverty level (H.R. 1762), 7321 [30MR], 8285 [7AP]

———supplemental insurance, 17623 [25JN]

———supplementary insurance options (H.R. 784), 2187 [28JA]

———24-hour, 7-day nursing service (H.R. 3543), 28998, 29013 [22OC]

———victims of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (H.R. 276), 872 [7JA]

———voluntary private alternative coverage (H.R. 3548), 29213 [26OC]

Medicare and Medicaid Patient and Program Protection Act: enact (H.R. 1444), 4960, 4962 [5MR], 14170 [1JN], 14178 [2JN], 14222 [2JN]

Medicare Catastrophic Illness Coverage Act: enact (H.R. 1245), 4106 [25FE]

———enact (H.R. 2970), 20737-20759 [22JY]

Medicare Catastrophic Protection Act: enact (H.R. 2470), 14797 [4JN], 17676-17690 [26JN], 18978 [8JY], 20714 [27JY], 20715, 20716, 20717, 20747, 20752 [23JY]-20761 [22JY], 20794, 20823 [22JY], 21054 [23JY], 21201 [27JY], 21568 [29JY], 22138 [3AU], 22344 [4AU], 23455 [7AU], 23886 [14SE], 25043 [23SE], 33197 [20NO], 36655 [19DE]

———enact (H.R. 2470), appointment of conferees, 34572 [9DE]

———enact (H.R. 2470), debate procedure, 17625 [25JN]

———enact (H.R. 2470), H.R. 2941 language passed in lieu, 20759 [22JY]

———enact (H.R. 2470), motion to recommit, 20759 [22JY]

———enact (H.R. 2941), 20717, 20732-20759 [22JY]

Medicare Diabetic Foot Disease Prevention Act: enact (H.R. 1325), 4446 [2MR]

Medicare HMO/CMP Quality Improvement Act: enact (H.R. 2675), 15632 [11JN]

Medicare Mental Illness Nondiscrimination Act: enact (H.R. 1067), 3264 [10FE]

Medicare Part A Catastrophic Protection Act: enact (H.R. 1280), 4433, 4436 [27FE]

Medicare Part B Catastrophic Protection Act: enact (H.R. 1281), 4433, 4436 [27FE]

National Commission on Children: establish (H.R. 3376), 25910, 25924 [30SE]

National Home Care Week: observance, 34086 [3DE]

Obstetric Care Information Act: enact (H.R. 461), 952 [7JA]

Older Americans Act: outreach and application assistance activities requirements (H.R. 1996), 8382 [8AP]

Peer Review Program: due process and equity (H.R. 2116), 9356 [22AP], 9670 [23AP], 25683 [29SE]

Pensions: correct benefit inequity known as notch problem (H.R. 121), 4053 [25FE]

———cost of living adjustments for Social Security recipients, retired and Federal and military employees, 32687 [18NO]

Physician reimbursement: Reagan administration proposal, 2378 [29JA]

Physicians: rates for certain surgical procedures, 19882 [15JY]

Poverty: support for hospitals in meeting indigent care costs (H.R. 3128), 22571 [5AU]

Preventive medicine: immunization of children, 34651 [9DE]

Public welfare: mandatory work-for-benefits participation, 35004 [10DE]

———problems, 34071 [3DE]

———reform, 29509 [27OC]

Religion: exemption from coverage for employers/employees opposed to participation (H.R. 2259), 10855 [30AP]

Rural areas: extended care through swing beds (H.R. 2115), 17607 [25JN]

———extended care through swing-beds (H.R. 2115), 9356 [22AP], 9670, 9673 [23AP]

———hospital care, 9681 [23AP], 34411 [8DE]

———payment for inpatient hospital services (H.R. 2114), 9356 [22AP], 9670, 9673 [23AP], 17607 [25JN]

Small business: burden of Social Security tax on employees tips, 6220 [18MR]

Social Security Claimants' Protection Act: enact (H.R. 819), 2201 [29JA]

SSI: improve (H.R. 2795), 17888 [26JN]

———reductions in welfare benefits for aged and disabled citizens, 28531 [20OC]

State and local governments: medicare coverage for employees, 20109 [15JY]

———taxation of benefits (H.R. 115), 6235 [18MR]

State Veterans Home assistance: support, 20785 [22JY]

States: medical assistance to individuals with certain family income standards (H.R. 3580), 30256 [29OC]

———nondiscrimination in medical licensure and medical reciprocity standards (H.R. 3241), 34575 [9DE]

Survivors' benefits: restore provisions for determining order of payment (H.R. 1977), 8288 [7AP]

Taxation: credit for amounts contributed to health care savings accounts (H.R. 955), 14207 [2JN]

———exempt (H.R. 468), 820 [7JA], 964 [7JA]

Trust funds: solvency, 11354 [6MY]

Vocational rehabilitation: reimburse necessary costs under State plans (H.R. 3657), 32716 [18NO]

WIC: funding, 25920 [30SE]

Remarks in Senate

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome: medicare coverage (S. 24), 20268 [17JY]

AFDC: establish more uniform eligibility and benefit levels and provide greater Federal financial responsibility (S. 862), 7055 [26MR]

———high school for recipients (S. 1771), 27099 [8OC]

———in-kind assistance to recipients (S. 1793), 28406-28408 [20OC]

Aged: benefits, 31983, 31997 [17NO]

———catastrophic illness coverage, 2525 [3FE]

———catastrophic illness coverage (S. 210), 637 [6JA]

———clarify income and resources for institutionalized and noninstitutionalized spouses (S. 773), 6112 [18MR]

———congregate housing (S. 599), 4321 [26FE]

———continue disability benefits during appeal (S. 1937), 34562-34565 [9DE]

———contributions, 11513 [6MY]

———cost of living adjustments, 32033 [17NO]

———cost of living adjustments for medicaid eligible individuals residing in long-term care facilities (S. 1744), 26331 [2OC]

———insure continued access to quality health care, 6503 [20MR]

———medicare and medicaid coverage of gerontological clinical nurse specialist services (S. 126), 570 [6JA]

———period of transition and formula with respect to workers born in years after 1916 and before 1930 (S. 1830), 29787-29790 [29OC]

Appropriations, 11443 [6MY]

Benefit levels: protect (S. 1119), 10907 [1MY]

Benefits: assistance program under title XIX (S. 1580), 21918 [31JY]

———combined earnings (S. 3), 14348 [2JN]

———comprehensive catastrophic illness benefits through prepaid plans (H.R. 65), 6029 [18MR]

———condition of participation applicable to hospitals (S. 689), 5056 [6MR]

———cost of living adjustments, 35765, 35787 [16DE]

———cost of living increases for Federal programs in fiscal 1988 (S. 1859), 31527 [10NO], 32050 [17NO]

———coverage for routine mammograms (S. 1161), 11620 [7MY]

———eliminate disparity in payments made to persons born between 1917 and 1921 (S. 225), 665 [6JA]

———hospice psychologist services under medicare and medicaid (S. 97), 563 [6JA]

———increase authorization for social services (S. 1070), 9249-9251 [22AP]

———reduction, 30483 [3NO]

Benefits formula (S. 1917), 33953 [3DE]

Budget: catastrophic illness care funding, 11445 [6MY]

———cost of living adjustments, 31196 [6NO], 36689-36691 [20DE]

Children: medical assistance to chronically ill and disabled (S. 1740), 26168-26170 [1OC]

———replace AFDC program with a comprehensive program of mandatory child support and work training (S. 1511), 20497, 20525-20529, 20552-20560 [21JY], 23346 [7AU]

Earnings test: phase out (S. 1777), 27112 [8OC]

Election workers: exemption from health insurance tax (S. 1494), 20041 [15JY]

Family Security Act: enact (S. 1511), 20497, 20525-20529, 20552-20560 [21JY], 23346 [7AU]

Federal aid programs: quality control review procedures and standards in AFDC, medicaid, and food stamp programs (S. 1440), 17841 [26JN]

Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund: grants (S. 1833), 30342 [30OC]

Handicapped: catastrophic illness coverage (S. 210), 637 [6JA]

———disability insurance program (S. Con. Res. 13), 2633 [3FE]

———repeal definition of disability applicable to widows and widowers (S. 170), 14348, 14363 [2JN]

Health Care Innovation Act: enact (S. 897), 7643-7645 [1AP]

Homecare Quality Assurance Act: enact (S. 1166), 11622 [7MY]

Income limitation: disregard certain assistance (S. 1795), 28288 [16OC]

Insurance: amend title XVIII (S. 1240), 13238 [20MY]

Iowa: Social Security coverage for certain law enforcement officers and fire fighters (S. 1363), 16157 [16JN]

Medicaid: abortion funding, 1169 [12JA]

———benefits for poor children and pregnant women (S. 422), 2329-2332 [29JA]

———coverage of clinical social worker services (S. 168), 609 [6JA]

———establish more uniform eligibility and benefit levels for program and provide greater Federal financial responsibility (S. 862), 7055 [26MR]

———patient and program protection, 4983-4986 [6MR]

———welfare of spouses of institutionalized persons (S. 598), 6015 [18MR]

———welfare of spouses of institutionalized persons (S. 776), 6112 [18MR]

Medicaid Catastrophic Coverage for Children Act: enact (S. 1283), 13942 [28MY]

Medicaid Community Spouse Protection Act: enact (S. 598), 4321, 4323 [26FE], 6015 [18MR], 7072 [26MR]

Medicaid Community Spouse Safety Net Act: enact (S. 776), 14348 [2JN]

Medicaid Home and Community Quality Services Act: enact (S. 1673), 23754, 23764-23769 [10SE]

Medical care: access, 20590 [21JY]

———amounts owed by physicians under National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program shall be deducted from medicare/medicaid payments (S. 1244), 13241 [20MY]

———certification and recertification of certain services (S. 101), 565 [6JA]

———Dept. of HHS's catastrophic health insurance proposal, 1359 [14JA]

———financing of long-term care for elderly, 24555 [18SE]

———home care (S. 1762), 26907 [7OC]

———insurance for catastrophic diseases, 2081 [28JA]

———medicare physician payment plan, 5645 [12MR]

———nurse training and services (S. 1765), 26909, 26910 [7OC]

———protect beneficiaries from unfit health care practitioners (S. 661), 20916, 20922-20923 [23JY]

———rural hospitals, 11406-11408 [6MY]

———trust fund, 21508-21510 [29JY]

Medicare: access to FDA-approved technologies (S. 897), 7643-7645 [1AP]

———adult day health care (S. 1839), 30556-30558 [3NO]

———catastrophic illness coverage (S. 754), 5927, 5930, 5931 [17MR]

———CHAMPUS coverage of certain health care expenses of members of uniformed services (S. 166), 608 [6JA]

———claims processing and payments, 13725, 13726 [27MY]

———clinical social worker services (S. 127), 571 [6JA]

———community nursing and ambulatory care on prepaid, capitated basis (S. 1003), 8820 [9AP]

———community nursing and ambulatory care on prepaid, capitated basis (S. 1010), 8967 [10AP]

———costs for inpatient services at rural hospitals (S. 1768), 26911 [7OC]

———coverage of daily home health services (S. 961), 8494-8495 [8AP], 8953 [10AP]

———coverage of extended care services (S. 775), 6112 [18MR]

———coverage of routine mammograms (S. 1161), 11620 [7MY]

———coverage of influenza vaccine and its administration (S. 1044), 9133 [21AP]

———coverage of clinical social worker services (S. 168), 609 [6JA]

———coverage of mental illness (S. 718), 5350 [11MR]

———medicare coverage of services (S. 131), 572 [6JA]

———medicare coverage of services (S. 140), 581 [6JA]

———coverage of psychologist services (S. 123), 569 [6JA]

———coverage of psychologist services (S. 97), 563 [6JA]

———establish program to assist rural hospitals in cost-effective services (S. 732), 5612-5615 [12MR]

———extended care coverage (S. 283), 750 [6JA]

———Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund grants for small rural hospitals to provide cost-effective services (S. 1207), 12499 [14MY]

———home care benefits (S. 1616), 22946 [6AU]

———hospital reimbursement policy (S. 1548), 21130 [24JY]

———inpatient payments (S. Con. Res. 15), 3134 [5FE]

———mental health services ambulatory benefits (S. 1209), 12585 [15MY]

———mental health services from qualified professional psychologists (S. 93), 555 [6JA]

———method for evaluation of pediatric heart transplant facilities (S. 1450), 18186 [30JN]

———nurse-midwife services (S. 124), 570 [6JA]

———payment methodology for physicians' services (S. Con. Res. 56), 10929 [1MY]

———pediatric specialist services (S. 94), 556 [6JA]

———peer review organizations, 7998 [3AP]

———physician payment plan, 5645 [12MR]

———prescription drugs, 31565 [10NO]

———prospective payment system for hospital-based physicians, 3921 [23FE]

———protect beneficiaries with risk-sharing contract (S. 1582), 22026, 22027, 22028 [3AU]

———quality nursing care (S. 1108), 10345 [29AP]

———services by psychiatric nurses (S. 96), 562 [6JA]

———supplemental policy warning (S. 921), 8025 [6AP]

———waive late enrollment penalty for disabled individuals covered under spouses's private employment-related health insurance (S. 176), 611 [6JA]

———waive waiting period in certain cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (S. 24), 447 [6JA]

———welfare of spouses of institutionalized persons (S. 598), 7072 [26MR]

Medicare and Medicaid Patient and Program Protection Act: enact (H.R. 1444), S. 661 passed in lieu, 20923 [23JY]

Medicare Appeals Rights Preservation Act: enact (S. 1857), 3122831231 [6NO]

Medicare Catastrophic Illness Coverage Act: enact (S. 592), 4164, 4297-4302, 4404, 4406 [26FE], 5138 [10MR], 8053 [6AP]

Medicare Catastrophic Loss Prevention Act: enact (S. 1127), 21957 [3AU], 29639-29641 [28OC], 29899-29901 [29OC]

Medicare Catastrophic Protection Act: enact (H.R. 2470), 29414 [27OC], 30805 [4NO]

Medicare Home Health Services Improvement Act: enact (S. 1076), 9257, 9267 [22AP]

Medicare patient and program protection, 4983-4986 [6MR]

Medicare Private Health Plan Capitation Improvement Act: enact (S. 1734), 25815, 25869 [30SE]

Medicare Rural Hospital Payment Equity Act: enact (S. 1438), 17830-17835 [26JN], 22975 [6AU]

Medicare-Eligible Veterans Health Care Financial Assistance Act: enact (S. 603), 4323, 4324 [26FE]

Missouri Baptist Hospital of Sullivan: urban status, 35258 [11DE]

National Academy of Social Insurance: charter (S. 35), 474 [6JA]

National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare: fundraising practices, 5293 [11MR], 6684 [24MR]

National Home Health Care Week: designate (S.J. Res. 98), 6117 [18MR]

Pensions: remove limitation on outside income (S. 1953), 35801 [16DE]

Public welfare: amend title XVIII to permit payment for services of physician assistants outside institutional settings (S. 1230), 12973 [19MY]

Puerto Rico: increase limit on annual Federal medical program payments (S. 1339), 15074 [9JN]

Religion: exemption from coverage for members opposed to participation (S. 1884), 32819 [19NO]

Representation, 14164 [29MY]

Rural Health Care Viability Act: enact (S. 1390), 16633, 16646-16651 [18JN]

Rural Hospital Payment Equity Act: enact, 16633 [18JN]

San Juan County Nursing Home, UT: relief (S. 1828), 29647 [28OC]

Social Security Administrative Reorganization Act: enact (S. 34), 469 [6JA]

Social Security Disability Beneficiary Rehabilitation Act: enact (S. 178), 617-619 [6JA]

Social Security Reorganization Act: enact (S. 765), 6006, 6013-6015 [18MR]

Social Security Trust Funds Management Act: enact (S. 33), 466

Social workers: medicare coverage of services (S. 127), 571 [6JA]

SSI: in-kind assistance to recipients (S. 1793), 28406-28408 [20OC]

System: improve (S. 1635), 23218 [7AU]

———improve (S. 1648), 23241, 23242 [7AU]

Taxation: computation of alternative minimum tax and Social Security benefits (S. 564), 3767 [19FE]

Trust fund: integrity, 21837 [31JY]

Vocational Rehabilitation Agency Reimbursement Act: enact (S. 1949), 35631 [15DE]

Reports

Catastrophic Illness Health Insurance, 29374 [27OC]

Decade of Child Support Enforcement 1975-85: Dept. of HHS, 5553 [12MR], 7184 [27MR]

Development of Guidelines for Establishing and Updating Child Support Orders: Advisory Panel Child Support Models Project, 5554 [12MR]

Evaluation of Rural Hospital Policy: Prospective Payment Assessment Commission, Dept. of HHS (excerpts), 16649 [18JN]

Nursing Home Care: Institute of Medicine, 10346 [29AP]

Private Sector Solutions for Long-Term Health Care: Republican Study Committee, 20104 [15JY]

Social Security Disinvestment, 467 [6JA]

Task Force on Small Rural Hospitals: Minnesota Hospital Association, 11447-11456 [6MY]

Trust Fund Status: medicare system board of trustees, 14207 [2JN]

Reports filed

AFDC Restructuring: Committee on Education and Labor (H.R. 1720) (H. Rept. 100-159), 23076 [7AU]

———Committee on Energy and Commerce (H.R. 1720) (H. Rept. 100-159), 23933 [15SE]

———Committee on Rules (H.R. 1720), Consideration (H. Res. 310) (H. Rept. 100-448), 32142, 32551 [17NO]

———Committee on Ways and Means (H.R. 1720) (H. Rept. 100-59), 16567 [17JN]

Amendment: Committee on Ways and Means (H.R. 2470) (H. Rept. 100-105), 10023 [27AP]

Medicare and Medicaid Patient and Program Protection Act: Committee on Energy and Commerce (H.R. 1444) (H. Rept. 100-85), 11719 [7MY]

———Committee on Ways and Means (H.R. 1444) (H. Rept. 100-85), 13431 [21MY]

Medicare Catastrophic Protection Act: Committee on Energy and Commerce (H.R. 2470) (H. Rept. 100-105), 18680 [1JY]

———Committee on Rules (H.R. 2470; H. Res. 227) (H. Rept. 100-226), 20359 [21JY]

Reports to constituents

Hamilton, Lee H.: Health Care Policy, 20114 [15JY]

Statements

Adult Day Care: National Council on Aging, 29384 [27OC]

AFDC Experience: welfare recipients, 35838 [16DE]

Budget Effects on Medicaid, 4933 [5MR]

Catastrophic Illness: American Association of Retired Persons, 20666 [22JY]

———Senator Wallop, 29335 [27OC]

Federal Health Plan Costs: Blue Cross and Blue Shield, 29367 [27OC]

Financing Long-Term Health Care: Representative Crane, 16332 [16JN]

———Representative Saxton, 16332 [16JN]

———Representative Shumway, 16331 [16JN]

———Representative Tom Lewis, 16332 [16JN]

Home Health Care Services: Reva Rasmussen, 9264 [22AP]

Medicare Appeals Rights: Melford O. Cleveland, 31230

Medicare Catastrophic Loss Prevention Act: Committee on Finance, 29410 [27OC]

Medicare Catastrophic Protection Act: American Association of Retired Persons, 20744 [22JY]

———George R. Fisher, 20794 [22JY]

Medicare Costs: Senator Armstrong, 29325 [27OC]

Medicare Payroll Taxes: Senator Durenberger, 29325 [27OC]

Medicare Peer Review System: Jim Knapp, 23242 [7AU]

———Stephen Gleason, 30268 [29OC]

Medicare Private Health Plan Capitation Improvement Act: Senator Durenberger, 25869 [30SE]

Seniors Surtax, State Law Problems, and the Role of Private Insurance: Senator Karnes, 26817 [7OC]

Treasury Practices Regarding Social Security, 467 [6JA]

Welfare Reform: Representative Downey, 28782 [21OC]

Studies

Long-Term Care and Personal Impoverishment—7 in 10 Elderly Alone Are at Risk, 35438 [11DE]

Views of the Elderly: Eagleview Middle School, Colorado Springs, CO, 13020 [19MY]

Summaries

Child Welfare and Foster Care Amendments (H.R. 2753), 17127 [23JN]

Family Security Act (S. 1511), 20529-20552 [21JY]

Family Welfare Reform Act (H.R. 1720), 35826 [16DE]

Homecare Quality Assurance Act (H.R. 1700), 6188 [18MR]

MedAmerica Act (H.R. 3580), 30256 [29OC]

Medicaid and Medicare Coverage of Certain Clinical Specialists' Services Under the Medicare and Medicaid Programs (H.R. 2218), 10618 [29AP]

Medicaid Benefits for Families With Dependent Children (H.R. 2627), 15110 [9JN]

Medicaid Home and Community Quality Services Act (S. 1673), 23763 [10SE]

Medicaid Reform Amendments (S. 1580), 21922-21925 [31JY]

Medicare and Medicaid Catastrophic Acute and Transitional Care Act (H.R. 1938), 7869 [2AP]

Medicare and Medicaid Patient and Program Protection Act, 4985 [6MR]

Medicare Catastrophic Illness Coverage Act (S. 592), 4299 [26FE]

Medicare Catastrophic Loss Prevention Act (S. 1127), 29899 [29OC]

Medicare Home Health Services Improvement Act (S. 1076), 9261, 9266 [22AP]

Medicare Private Health Plan Capitation Improvement Act (S. 1734), 25873 [30SE]

Medicare Rural Hospital Payment Equity Act (S. 1438), 17832 [26JN]

Quality Nursing Care Under Medicare/Medicaid (S. 1108), 10347 [29AP]

Rural Health Care Improvement Act, 14243 [2JN]

SSI Improvements (H.R. 2795), 17889 [26JN]

State Licensure Requirements for Agents Soliciting HMO Products (S. 1582), 22026 [3AU]

Tables

AFDC, medicaid, and food stamp payment error rates and disallowances, 23378 [7AU]

Benefit and eligibility increases in Family Welfare Reform Act (H.R. 1720), 35698 [15DE]

Comparison of Social Security benefits for retirees with career Federal minimum earnings under present law, 910 [7JA]

Comparison of Social Security benefits for retirees with career average earnings under present law, 911 [7JA]

Cost of living adjustment payments, 30691 [4NO]

Cost of medicare drug benefits under H.R. 2941, 20678 [22JY]

Estimated operations of OASI and DI trust funds (alternative 11-B assumption), 467 [6JA]

Federal funds deficit with and without summit agreement, 36692 [20DE]

Initial benefit amounts, 10907 [1MY]

Medicaid disallowances, 17841 [26JN]

Medicaid payment error rates, 17841 [26JN]

Medicaid reform amendments of 1987 estimated Federal savings, 21925 [31JY]

Premium comparisons under various proposals for medicare catastrophic illness coverage, 20754 [22JY]

Projected medicare part B monthly premium increases, 29315 [27OC]

Supplemental premiums under S. 1127, the Catastrophic Health Loss Prevention Act, 29363 [27OC]

Total income estimates under Medicare Catastrophic Protection Act, 20697 [22JY]

Trust fund impact on budget results and investment holdings, 36692 [20DE]

Welfare Reform Under S. 1511; H.R. 1720, 3200, 24032 [15SE]

Testimonies

Catastrophic Illness Expenses: Elaine Yarbrough, 20756 [22JY]

———Philip W. Brickner, 23123 [7AU]

Concerns for Medical Needs of the Elderly in Brown County and Surrounding Area, Ann C. Vogel, 7998 [3AP]

Long-Term Health Care: Elaine Donnelly, 21560-21562 [29JY]

Medicare Long-Term Home Care Catastrophic Protection Act: Representative George Miller, 32972 [19NO]

Quality of Life: Susan Margoles, 20675 [22JY]

Retirees Protection: Jean Bush, 37703 [21DE]

———William E. Brock III, Sec. of Labor, 37704 [21DE]

Texts of

H. Con. Res. 108, rural hospitals medicare coverage, 9674 [23AP]

H. Res. 331, consideration of H.R. 1720, Family Welfare Reform Act, 35668 [15DE]

H.R. 274, Homeless Emergency Relief Act, 893 [7JA]

H.R. 276, medicare benefits to victims of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, 873 [7JA]

H.R. 351, increase outside income limitation, 1901 [22JA]

H.R. 437, Emergency Aid to Homeless Families Act, 894 [7JA]

H.R. 461, Obstetric Care Information Act, 953 [7JA]

H.R. 550, adult day care under medicare, 6962 [26MR]

H.R. 1067, Medicare Mental Illness Nondiscrimination Act, 3265 [10FE]

H.R. 1245, medicare coverage of catastrophic illness, 4099 [25FE]

H.R. 1280, Medicare Part A Catastrophic Protection Act, 4433 [27FE]

H.R. 1281, Medicare Part B Catastrophic Protection Act, 4436 [27FE]

H.R. 1444, Medicare and Medicaid Patient and Program Protection Act, 14170-14176 [1JN]

H.R. 1776, long-term care benefits under medicare, 6726 [25MR]

H.R. 1857, social worker services under medicare and medicaid, 7319 [30MR]

H.R. 1917, computation rule application to workers attaining age 65 in or after 1982, 29227 [27OC]

H.R. 1965, exclude Social Security trust funds from the budget, 8281 [7AP]

H.R. 1976, Social Security insurance benefits for postsecondary school students, 8289 [7AP]

H.R. 1977, provisions for determining order of payment of Social Security lump-sum survivors' benefits, 8289 [7AP]

H.R. 1978, age limit for termination of certain Social Security benefits to children, 8289 [7AP]

H.R. 1996, Older Americans Act amendment, 8383 [8AP]

H.R. 2058, medical professionals' appeal of adverse determinations by peer review organizations, 8647 [9AP]

H.R. 2066, delay implementation of restrictions on use of periodic interim medicare payment system, 8922 [9AP]

H.R. 2114, Rural Hospital Act amendments, 9675 [23AP]

H.R. 2115, Rural Nursing Care Access Act amendments, 9675 [23AP]

H.R. 2116, PRO Due Process and Equity Act amendments, 9675 [23AP]

H.R. 2470, Medicare Catastrophic Protection Act, 29414-29880 [29OC]

H.R. 2935, medicare coverage of mammogram, 28345 [19OC]

H.R. 2941, Medicare Catastrophic Protection Act, 20717-20732 [22JY]

H.R. 3130, Comprehensive Alzheimer's Assistance, Research, and Education Act, 22986 [6AU]

H.R. 3644, restructure AFDC, 35847-35872 [16DE]

H.R. 3780, Social Security coverage for fish and shellfish processors, 36495 [18DE]

H.R. 3802, improve access of medicare beneficiaries to extended care services, 36672 [19DE]

S. 24, waive medicare waiting period in certain cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, 448 [6JA]

S. 33, Social Security Trust Funds Management Act, 468 [6JA]

S. 34, Social Security Administrative Reorganization Act, 470-474 [6JA]

S. 35, charter National Academy of Social Insurance, 475 [6JA]

S. 93, mental health services from qualified professional psychologists, 556 [6JA]

S. 94, pediatric specialist services, 556 [6JA]

S. 96, medicare coverage of services by psychiatric nurses, 562 [6JA]

S. 97, hospice psychologist services under medicare and medicaid, 563 [6JA]

S. 101, certification and recertification of certain health services, 566 [6JA]

S. 123, medicare coverage of psychologist services, 569 [6JA]

S. 124, medicare coverage of nurse-midwife services, 570 [6JA]

S. 126, medicare and medicaid coverage of gerontological clinical nurse specialist services, 570 [6JA]

S. 127, medicare coverage of clinical social worker services, 571 [6JA]

S. 131, medicare coverage of psychologist services, 573 [6JA]

S. 140, medicare coverage of psychologist' services, 582 [6JA]

S. 166, CHAMPUS coverage of certain health care expenses of members of uniformed services not payable under medicare, 608 [6JA]

S. 168, medicare and medicaid coverage of clinical social worker services, 609 [6JA]

S. 178, Social Security Disability Beneficiary Rehabilitation Act, 619-622 [6JA]

S. 210, catastrophic health insurance coverage for aged and handicapped, 638 [6JA]

S. 225, eliminate disparity in benefits paid to persons born between 1917 and 1921, 666 [6JA]

S. 283, medicare extended care coverage, 750 [6JA]

S. 564, computation of alternative minimum tax and Social Security benefits for purposes of taxation, 3768 [19FE]

S. 592, Medicare Catastrophic Illness Coverage Act, 4298 [26FE]

S. 603, Medicare-Eligible Veterans Health Care Financial Assistance Act, 4324 [26FE]

S. 661, protect beneficiaries from unfit health care practitioners, 20916-20921 [23JY]

S. 689, condition of Social Security participation applicable to hospitals, 5056 [6MR]

S. 718, mental illness discrimination under medicare, 5350 [11MR]

S. 732, Rural Health Services Transition Act, 5613 [12MR]

S. 754, catastrophic illness coverage under medicare, 5928-5930 [17MR]

S. 765, Social Security Reorganization Act, 6007-6013 [18MR]

S. 869, child support guidelines, 7183 [27MR]

S. 897, Health Care Innovation Act, 7645 [1AP]

S. 961, Home Care Protection Act, 8495 [8AP]

S. 1003, Medicare Community Nursing and Ambulatory Care Act, 8820 [9AP]

S. 1010, community nursing and ambulatory care to medicare beneficiaries on prepaid, capitated basis, 8967 [10AP]

S. 1044, medicare coverage of influenza vaccine and its administration, 9133 [21AP]

S. 1076, Medicare Home Health Services Improvement Act, 9258-9261 [22AP]

S. 1119, benefit levels, 10908 [1MY]

S. 1207, Medicare Rural Health Services Transition Act, 12501 [14MY]

S. 1209, Medicare Ambulatory Mental Health Services Access Act, 12586 [15MY]

S. 1230, amend Social Security Act to permit payment for services of physician assistants outside institutional settings, 12973 [19MY]

S. 1240, amend title XVIII of Social Security Act, 13238 [20MY]

S. 1244, amounts owed by physicians under National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program shall be deducted from medicare/medicaid payments, 13243 [20MY]

S. 1283, Medicaid Catastrophic Coverage for Children Act, 13942 [28MY]

S. 1363, Social Security coverage for certain law enforcement officers and fire fighters in Iowa, 16158 [16JN]

S. 1390, Rural Health Care Viability Act, 16647 [18JN]

S. 1401, determination of attorney's fees by the Social Security Administration, 16854 [19JN]

S. 1438, Medicare Rural Hospital Payment Equity Act, 17831 [26JN]

S. 1548, medicare's hospital reimbursement policy, 21131 [24JY]

S. 1580, amend medical assistance program under Social Security title XIX, 21918-21922 [31JY]

S. 1582, medicare protection for beneficiaries with risk-sharing contract, 22028 [3AU]

S. 1635, improve system, 23219, 23225 [7AU]

S. 1673, Medicaid Home and Community Quality Services Act, 23755-23763 [10SE]

S. 1734, Medicare Private Health Plan Capitation Improvement Act, 25873 [30SE]

S. 1740, medical assistance to chronically ill and disabled children, 26169 [1OC]

S. 1744, cost of living adjustments for medicaid eligible individuals residing in long-term care facilities, 26331 [2OC]

S. 1768, medicare costs for inpatient services at rural hospitals, 26912 [7OC]

S. 1771, high school for AFDC recipients (S. 1771), 27099 [8OC]

S. 1777, phase out earnings test, 27113 [8OC]

S. 1828, relief for San Juan County Nursing Home, UT, 29647 [28OC]

S. 1830, period of transition and formula with respect to workers born in years after 1916 and before 1930, 29788 [29OC]

S. 1833, Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund grants, 30342 [30OC]

S. 1859, eliminate cost of living increases for Federal programs in fiscal 1988, 31529 [10NO]

S. 1915, Medicaid Risk-Based Health Care Act, 33951 [3DE]

S. 1935, income limitations for working aged, 922 [7JA]

S. 1949, Vocational Rehabilitation Agency Reimbursement Act, 35632 [15DE]

S. Con. Res. 13, Social Security disability insurance program, 2633 [3FE]

S. Con. Res. 15, inpatient medicare payments, 3134 [5FE]

S. Con. Res. 56, medicare payment methodology for physicians' services, 10929 [1MY]

S.J. Res. 98, National Home Health Care Week, 6117 [18MR]