INSURANCE

Addresses

Advising Insurers To Learn From Mistakes: Paul J. Scheel, 4023 [24FE]

Advertisements

FHA mortgage insurance, 31797 [12NO]

Tax-free money with the best financial vehicle ever created: Los Angeles (CA) Times, 28831 [22OC]

Amendments

Bankruptcy: extend certain protections under title 11 of U.S. Code (S. 1783), 27820, 27843 [14OC]

Banks and banking: regulate certain activities (S. 790), 6816, 6904, 6906 [25MR], 6994, 6999, 7004, 7005, 7009, 7011, 7016, 7021, 7067, 7068, 7069, 7070 [26MR], 7109, 7112, 7117, 7120, 7121, 7122, 7124, 7128, 7134, 7136, 7191-7192 [27MR]

Medicare Catastrophic Loss Prevention Act: enact (S. 1127), 26919 [7OC]

———enact (S. 1127), 27359 [13OC], 29133, 29180 [23OC], 29314, 29316, 29321, 29350, 29355, 29358, 29362, 29368, 29370, 29373, 29380, 29384, 29385, 29386, 29387, 29388, 29389, 29390, 29392, 29393, 29394, 29396, 29457, 29458, 29471, 29474, 29475, 29476, 29477, 29478, 29479, 29480 [27OC]

Nuclear energy: procedures for liability and indemnification for incidents (H.R. 2994), 21379 [28JY]

Retired Benefits Security Act: enact (S. 548), 21095, 21096, 21143, 21144 [24JY]

Analyses

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

Health Care for the Uninsured Act (S. 177), 616 [6JA]

Health Care Savings Account Act (H.R. 955), 2720 [4FE]

Long-Term Care Amendments, 30262 [29OC]

Medicare Part A Catastrophic Protection Act (H.R. 1280), 4148 [26FE]

Medicare Part B Catastrophic Protection Act (H.R. 1281), 4149 [26FE]

VA Tort Claims and Hospital Cost Collection (S. 1063), 9142 [21AP]

Articles and editorials

Age-Old Problem of Insurance for Infirmed Elderly, 28350 [19OC]

AIDS and Insurance—The Rationale for AIDS-Related Testing, 25799-25804 [30SE]

Assuring the Continued Competence of Health Professionals, 19558 [13JY]

Backward Step for Banking, 6836 [25MR]

Banking on Deregulation, 6837 [25MR]

Battle of the Banks, 6838 [25MR]

Bike Owner To Sell Helmet Making Unit, 5329 [11MR]

Businessman Frank Samford Dies, 1302 [14JA]

Canada Unveils $4 Billion Plan on Child Care, 34991 [10DE]

Catastrophic Illness Health Insurance, 29399 [27OC]

Caught in the MediGap, 17623 [25JN]

Congress Aims at Minimum Benefit, 3820 [19FE]

Crisis Is Over—But the Insurance Will Never Be the Same, 16316 [16JN], 20167 [17JY]

Decentralization of FSLIC Urged, 6813 [25MR]

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

FDIC and Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp. Merger, 16277 [16JN]

Financial Guaranty Regulations Inadequate Corcoran, 32556 [17NO]

Frank P. Samford, Jr., Business Community Leader, Dies at 65, 1303 [14JA]

Get Serious About Protecting Pensions, 18701 [1JY]

Great Insurance Crisis, 2658 [3FE]

Health Care 1988, 24035 [15SE]

Health Insurance for All Workers, 3819 [19FE]

Helmet Maker Clipped by Insurance Costs, 5329 [11MR]

Insurance Failures Predicted, 13839 [27MY]

Insurance Failures Pressure States' Bailout Funds, 7740 [1AP]

Insurance Plan Would Assure Health Care for Life, 1359 [14JA]

Insurer Failures Raise Demands on State Funds, 7569 [31MR]

Jerseyan of the Week—Insurance Agent Leader Aims To ``Do Very Best'', 17113 [23JN]

Jerseyans in Vanguard of Efforts To Reform Federal Insurance Regulations, 19593 [13JY]

John Hancock—Industry's Black Sheep, 32686 [18NO]

Just Too Lavish, 29406 [27OC]

Law That Boosts Insurance Costs, 17363 [24JN], 20810 [22JY]

Liability Insurance, 31975 [16NO]

Life Insurers Debate Junk Bond Investments, 22135 [3AU]

Memo Faults FSLIC on Property Dealings, 6814 [25MR]

Merger of FDIC, FSLIC Is the Best Alternative, 16278 [16JN]

Merger of Insurance Funds Predicted by Home Loan Bank Chief in California, 16278 [16JN]

More P/C Insurers Show Weaknesses in Test, 8275 [7AP]

N.J. Declares Integrity $50 Million Insolvent, 7402 [31MR]

NAIB Urges Federal Solvency Standards, 31721 [10NO]

New Rules Proposed for Liability Insurance, 7867 [2AP]

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

NY Banking Chief Hits Proxmire Bill Moratorium, 6836 [25MR]

On March 10, the Senate Banking Committee Faced Up to National Financial Problems, 6615 [24MR]

Outmaneuvering the U.S. Army—W. Germans Bilk Pentagon With Claims of War Game Damage, Officials Say, 24370 [17SE]

Permit Banks To Compete, 6837 [25MR]

Pool Fund To Pay Defunct Mission Claims, 3317 [11FE]

Product Liability (sundry), 20158-20165 [17JY]

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

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

Shoring Up U.S. Health Care, 8267 [7AP]

Speed Limit, 17107 [23JN]

Speed Limits Are Being Raised—But Speeders Still Breaking the Law, 17107 [23JN]

Spend, Spend, Spend—Congressional Liberals Are Singing the Same Old Song, 35589 [14DE]

Thrifts Increasingly Back Proposal to Merge Ailing FSLIC With FDIC, 16278 [16JN]

Uninsured Mothers—555,000 a Year—Report Says Giving Birth Is Too Often a (Financial Nightmare), 37931 [21DE]

Where Data Fall Short, 31975 [16NO]

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

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

Bills and resolutions

Access to Health Insurance for Medically Uninsurable Individuals Act: enact (see S. 1634)

Aeronautics: extension of Aviation Insurance Program (see S. 1628)

Aged: encourage coverage by private long-term care (see H.R. 3686)

———encourage coverage by private long-term care insurance (see H.R. 3501)

Agriculture: emergency crop insurance loans (see H.R. 3716)

———extend eligibility for emergency loans (see H.R. 3755)

Animal Welfare Act: amend (see H.R. 241)

Antitrust Damages Clarification Act: enact (see S. 808)

Antitrust laws: exempt (see S. 80)

Antitrust policy: exemption (see H.R. 2277)

Armed Forces: calculation of annuity paid under the survivor benefit plan (see H.R. 3741)

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

Bankruptcy: extend certain pension and health insurance protections under title 11 of the U.S. Code (see S. 903)

———extend certain protections under title 11 of U.S. Code (see S. 1783)

———extend provision relative to continuation of health benefits for retirees (see H.R. 1912)

———health benefits for retirees (see H.R. 1488)

———priority to certain unsecured claims of retired former employees (see H.R. 1040)

Banks and banking: certain financial, securities, real estate, and insurance activities (see H.R. 50)

———clarify limitations on insurance activities (see S. 706)

———increase to $500,000 the amount of insurance on accounts established by an agent of the U.S., any State, or other unit of Government (see H.R. 2634)

———reaffirm full faith and credit of federally insured deposits (see H. Con. Res. 80)

———regulate certain activities (see S. 790)

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

Business: limit Federal antitrust exemption (see H.R. 3749)

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

Child Health Incentives Reform Plan: enact (see S. 968)

Children: denial of health insurance to disabled adopted (see H. Con. Res. 43)

———health insurance coverage for disabled adopted (see S. Con. Res. 95), 37794 [21DE]

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

Courts: improve system for resolving medical professional liability actions (see H.R. 1955)

———liability (see S. 554)

Deceased: last monthly benefit payable (see H.R. 1289)

Dept. of HHS: submit proposal for regulation of long-term care insurance policies (see H.R. 1933)

ERISA: continuation of health insurance coverage (see H.R. 1072)

———exempt from preemption any provision of Minnesota law requiring employers to provide health coverage (see H.R. 2364)

Fair Labor Standards Act: assure minimum health benefits for all U.S. workers (see S. 1265)

Federal Crime Insurance Program: extend authorization (see S. 26)

Federal Deposit Insurance Act: amend (see S. 244)

Federal employees: disability compensation benefits to survivors (see H.R. 1287)

———inclusion of treatment of cleft lip and palate conditions in health benefits (see H.R. 3429)

———long-term health care insurance (see S. 1738)

———permit certain retirees to resume coverage under Federal employees' group life insurance (see H.R. 2125)

———prepaid dental care program (see H.R. 3404)

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

FSLIC: deposits in federally insured financial institutions (see S. Con. Res. 28)

FTC: conduct a study and prepare reports relative to insurance sales to the elderly (see H.R. 2764)

———restriction over authority (see H.R. 3833)

General Aviation Accident Liability Standards Act: enact (see S. 473)

Health: increase Government benefit contribution (see H.R. 1734)

———national health insurance (see H.R. 1791)

———require plans offered by employers to have catastrophic coverage (see H.R. 2300)

Health care: limit costs and improve services (see S. 155)

Health insurance: prevent rejection of contract with current or former employees in case of bankruptcy

Health maintenance organizations: specify services of clinical social workers (see S. 153)

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

Housing: refinancing of guaranteed or insured loans (see H.R. 1452)

Income: repeal limitation on use of losses from nonlife insurance companies against income of life insurance companies (see H.R. 1375)

Individual retirement accounts: allow tax-free distributions for purchase of long-term care insurance coverage at age 59\1/2\ (see H.R. 1933)

Insurance Competition Act: enact (see S. 804)

Insurance Competition Improvement Act: enact (see S. 1299)

Interstate commerce: uniform product liability law (see S. 687, 688)

Liability: repeal Federal tort law relative to Government contractors (see S. 612)

Liability Insurance Reform Act: enact (see S. 426)

Lotteries: establish national to assist aged and disability insurance programs (see H.R. 330)

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

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

Medical care: catastrophic insurance for aged and handicapped (see S. 210)

———group plans relative to pediatric preventive health care (see H.R. 1449)

Medicare: catastrophic illness coverage (see H.R. 1280, 1281)

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

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

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

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

Medicare Catastrophic Loss Prevention Act: enact (see S. 1127)

Monopolies: clarify application relative to rates filed by a title insurance company with State agencies (see H.R. 1766)

Mortgages: Sec. of HUD's permanent authority to insure single-family and multifamily dwellings (see H.R. 1228)

National Academy of Social Insurance: charter (see S. 35)

National Flood Insurance Act: revise payments to encourage owners of structures on land subject to subsidence to remove them (see H.R. 1823)

———revise schedule for payment of flood insurance (see H.R. 2500)

National Service Life Insurance: extend (see H.R. 2348)

National Voluntary Health Insurance Act: establish (see H.R. 169)

Nuclear energy: procedures for liability and indemnification for incidents (see H.R. 2994)

———unlimited liability in event of powerplant accident (see H.R. 2141)

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

———single-employer plan termination insurance program and pension plan premium costs (see H.R. 2063), 8667 [9AP]

Postal Service: insurance up to the value of $100 on mail items (see H.R. 1690)

Prohibition of Discrimination in the Provision of Insurance Act: disapprove District of Columbia action (see H.J. Res. 16)

Public Health Service Act: assure minimum health benefits for all U.S. workers (see S. 1265)

Public lands: insurance for recreational events (see H.R. 2095)

Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act: amend to ensure payment of benefits (see H.R. 2167)

———assure sufficient resources to pay benefits and increase daily maximum benefit (see H.R. 1356)

Railroads: damage liability and coverage (see S. 443)

Real property: activities of depository institution holding companies (see H.R. 50)

Retired Benefits Security Act: enact (see S. 548)

Retiree Health Protection and Long-Term Care Insurance Act: enact (see S. 1739)

SBA: disclosure of certain data (see H.R. 3688)

Social Security: amend provision relative to age 46 to 55 benefits (see H.R. 207)

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

———amend provision relative to increasing primary insurance rates (see H.R. 227), 858 [7JA]

———child's insurance benefits for postsecondary school students (see H.R. 1976)

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

———health insurance (see H.R. 2696)

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

———medigap insurance policies (see H.R. 3490)

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

———proportional benefits paid for month of death (see H.R. 1127)

———veteran health care deductibles and coinsurance amounts (see S. 603)

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

Social Security: amend provision relative to individual entitled to disability and other periodic benefits (see H.R. 214)

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

———amend provision relative to total family benefits relative to disability insurance (see H.R. 204)

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

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

———provisions for payment of insurance benefits upon death (see H.R. 124)

Social Security Administration: establish as an independent agency (see H.R. 1291)

———establish as independent agency (see H.R. 1036)

Social Security Disability Waiting Period Elimination Act: enact (see H.R. 2919)

Social Security Reorganization Act: enact (see S. 765)

Statistics: collection and analysis of certain data (see H.R. 3643)

Taxation: business deduction for certain self-insurance reserves (see H.R. 746)

———business deduction for health insurance of self-employed taxpayer (see H.R. 1892)

———church self-funded death benefit plans (see H.R. 3147)

———clarify treatment of self-insured workers' compensation fund (see S. 1019)

———deduction for health insurance costs (see H.R. 3065)

———deductions for cost of health insurance coverage for self-employed (see S. 1370, 1386)

———exclude from gross income amounts withdrawn from Individual Retirement plans for payment of long-term care insurance premiums (see S. 1832)

———extend exclusion of amounts received under qualified group legal services plans (see H.R. 1810)

———group-term life insurance purchased for employees (see H.R. 745)

———increase group-term life insurance exempted from gross income (see H.R. 1738)

———interest on health insurance indebtedness (see H.R. 3778)

———life insurance and annuity contracts (see H.R. 3441)

———payment of long-term care insurance premiums (see H.R. 2997, 2998)

———provide cost-of-living adjustments to limitations applicable to certain deferred compensation plans (see H.R. 1655)

———status of long-term care expenses (see H.R. 2039)

———treat church self-funded benefit plans as life insurance contracts (see S. 1263)

———treatment of income of insurance companies (see H.R. 3438)

———treatment of self-insured workers' compensation funds (see H.R. 1709)

———use of consolidated tax returns by insurance companies (see S. 1404)

Unemployment: integrated service delivery and other demonstration projects to test methods of reemploying dislocated unemployment insurance recipients (see H.R. 3213)

VA: tort claims and hospital cost collections (see S. 1063)

Veterans: compensation benefits for lupus erythematosis (see H.R. 2446)

———dependency and indemnity compensation to surviving spouses (see H.R. 2354)

———exempt certain insurance from State taxation (S. 1090)

———higher installments payable to certain annuitants (S. 1090)

———insurance installments and premiums (see H.R. 2008)

———mortgage protection for disabled (see H.R. 410)

———protection from reduction for disability (see H.R. 3113)

———purchase up to $20,000 of National Service Life Insurance (see H.R. 2352)

———standardize length of marriage criteria for receipt of dependency and indemnity compensation (see H.R. 2351)

———survivors' benefits (see H.R. 3001)

———veteran health care deductibles and coinsurance amounts (see S. 603)

———waive payment of premiums for National Service Life Insurance by certain aged persons (see H.R. 411)

Colloquies

Catastrophic illness care: Representatives Dreier, Lungren, D. French Slaughter, and Ballenger, 19566 [13JY]

Factsheets

Catastrophic Illness Coverage: President Reagan, 2097 [28JA]

Federal Credit Reform Act (H.R. 1754), 6231 [18MR]

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

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

Hearings

Committee on Aging (Select): Catastrophic Insurance—How the Bowen Plan Fails (testimony from public witnesses), D63 [17FE]

Committee on Agriculture: GAO report on claims adjustment procedures in the Federal Crop Insurance Program (testimony), D296 [29AP]

Committee on Appropriations (House): FCIC (testimony from Kathleen Lawrence and E. Ray Fosse), D117 [5MR]

Committee on Children, Youth, and Families (House, Select): catastrophic illness care costs, D184 [23MR]

Committee on Energy and Commerce: financial condition and prospects of the property-casualty insurance industry (testimony), D263 [21AP]

Committee on Finance: catastrophic illness care costs (testimony), D172 [19MR], D199 [26MR]

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

Committee on Small Business (House): liability insurance crisis (testimony), D264 [21AP], D292 [28AP], D298 [29AP]

Committee on Small Business (Senate): cost and availability of health care benefits for small businesses and their employees, and proposals for federally funded mandated health benefits, D275 [23AP]

Committee on the Judiciary (House): antitrust exemptions in insurance (testimony), D280 [23AP]

Committee on the Judiciary (Senate): protect benefits under a collective bargaining agreement to include retired employees (S. 548) (testimony), D282 [24AP]

———Retiree Benefits Security Act (S. 548) (testimony), D218 [1AP]

———repeal exemption of insurance business from Federal antitrust laws (S. 80) (testimony from Daniel Oliver, Charles F. Rule, James M. Shannon, Charles G. Brown, David Levinson, Donald Halperin, J. Robert Hunter, F.J. O'Neill, Brad Mitchell John Motley, John Satagaj, Edward Muhl Leslie W. Seldin, Mark F. Horning, Robert S. Seiler, John Washburn, Mark N. Cooper and Jeffrey J. Teitz), D64 [18FE]

Committee on Ways and Means: long-term health care: (testimony), D216 [31MR]

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

Letters

Application of the Balanced Budget and Deficit Reduction Act to bank regulatory agencies: several Members of Congress, 7122 [27MR]

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

———Laurence E. Ide, 29315 [27OC]

———Michael Zimmerman, GAO, 19059 [8JY]

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

Competitive Equality Banking Act: Bill Clinton, Governor of Arkansas, 6834 [25MR]

———Chairman of the FDIC, 6820 [25MR]

———Comptroller of the Currency, 6820 [25MR]

———Conference of State Bank Supervisors, 6835 [25MR]

———Dept. of the Treasury, 7115 [27MR]

———GAO, 7115 [27MR]

———Independent Bankers Association of America, 6840 [25MR]

———James A. Baker III, Sec. of the Treasury, 6834 [25MR]

———OMB, 7122 [27MR]

———Paul A. Volcker, 6820, 6840 [25MR]

———Senator Proxmire, 6823 [25MR], 7108 [27MR]

———U.S. League of Savings Institutions, 6840 [25MR], 7116 [27MR]

Coverage of erosion by Federal flood insurance, Mrs. R.C. Mutchler, 31388 [19NO]

District of Columbia acquired immune deficiency syndrome tests: Cleveland B. Sparrow, Sr., 25804 [30SE]

———Frederic H. Bertrand, National Life of Vermont, 25805 [30SE]

———Harry L. Staley, Pride Mark Capitol Hill Insurance Agency, 25806 [30SE]

———Herbert L. DePrenger, GEICO Life Insurance Co., 25806 [30SE]

———James E. Barrett, Mutual of Omaha, 25806 [30SE]

———James E. Harshaw, Pilot Life Insurance Co., 25806 [30SE]

———John D. Bussey, Baptist Ministers' Conference of Washington, DC, 25804 [30SE]

———John G. Martin, Third World Assembly, Inc., 25804 [30SE]

———Lee M. Smith, Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York, 25806 [30SE]

———Malcolm MacKay, New York Life Insurance Co., 25806 [30SE]

———Malcolm O. Campbell, Jr., Aetna Life Insurance Co., 25805 [30SE]

———May L. Miller, 25797 [30SE]

———Prudential Insurance Co. of America, 25806 [30SE]

———R. Damian DuFour, Greater Washington Health Underwriters Association, 25807 [30SE]

———Sylvine Blackwell, 25797 [30SE]

———Walter E. Schmitt, Schmitt Insurance Services, 25805 [30SE]

———William T. McCallum, Great-West Life Assurance Co., 25806 [30SE]

FCIC claims and payments: E. Ray Fosse, Dept. of Agriculture, 34038 [3DE]

Federal health plan costs, 29365 [27OC]

Financial accountability of nonprofit contractors in liability cases regarding nuclear facilities: Representative Richardson, 21459 [30JY]

Health insurance tax deduction: John J. Motley III, 23417 [7AU]

———John S. Stagaj, 23417 [7AU]

Illinois' health insurance plan: Neil Hartigan, 2373 [29JA]

Lawsuit crisis in the insurance industry: Insurance Information Institute, 31975 [16NO]

Mandatory health insurance coverage: Senator Quayle, 3818 [19FE]

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

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

Merger of FSLIC funds with FDIC: Representatives St Germain, Kleczka, Parris, and Bartlett, 16277 [16JN]

Military damage claims in Federal Republic of Germany: Senator Dixon, 24370 [17SE]

Minimum health benefits for U.S. workers: Gordon R. Trapnell, Actuarial Research Corp., 13582 [21MY]

Occupational disease notification and prevention: Crum & Foster Insurance Cos., 25695 [30SE]

Price fixing: Leslie Cheek III, 20810 [22JY]

Railroad unemployment insurance: Representative Rostenkowski, 4707 [3MR]

———several House Members, 4707 [3MR]

———several Representatives (sundry), 9698 [23AP]

Retired Benefits Security Act: Kent W. Clapp, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Ohio, 21098 [24JY]

———William E. Brock III, Sec. of Labor, 21097 [24JY]

State unemployment insurance service operations: Richard F. Celeste, Governor of Ohio, 14130 [29MY]

Tax consolidation of life insurance companies: William B. Harman, Jr. and John T. Adney, 10287 [28AP]

Taxation of single premium life insurance: Jennie S. Stathis, GAO, 28831 [22OC]

Uniform product liability law: Malcolm Baldrige, Sec. of Commerce, 5052 [6MR]

VA insurance: Thomas K. Turnage, VA, 9441-9443 [23AP]

VA tort claims and hospital cost collection: Thomas K. Turnage, 9142 [21AP]

Lists

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

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

Supporters of repealing the insurance industry's antitrust exemption under McCarran-Ferguson, 16808 [19JN]

VA medication classification system, 29404 [27OC]

Meetings

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: FSLIC Recapitalization Act (H.R. 27), D214 [31MR], D221 [1AP]

———Expedited Funds Availability Act (H.R. 28), D85 [25FE]

Committee on Energy and Commerce: benefits under Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act (H.R. 2167), D297 [29AP]

———Medicare and Medicaid Patient and Program Protection Act (H.R. 1444), D248 [8AP]

———Public Health Service Act (H.R. 1746), D248 [8AP]

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

Committee on Ways and Means: catastrophic illness care costs under medicare (H.R. 1280), D249 [8AP]

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

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

Memorials of legislature

Hawaii, 14778 [4JN]

Louisiana, 20360 [21JY]

Massachusetts, 14327 [2JN], 22020 [3AU], 23080 [7AU]

Ohio, 22589 [5AU]

Virginia, 8123 [7AP], 9736 [24AP]

Messages

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

Papers

Medical Malpractice Liability Insurance for Emergency Physicians—Need for Reform: Spectrum Emergency Care, Inc., 602 [6JA]

Petitions

Catastrophic illness insurance: New York, NY, City Council, 35742 [15DE]

Provisions

Trauma Care and Emergency Medical Services Planning and Development Act, 23393 [7AU]

Questions and answers

Catastrophic Health Insurance Act (H.R. 65), 1817 [21JA]

Remarks in House

Adopted children: health insurance for disabled, 3234 [9FE]

Aeronautics: extension of Aviation Insurance Program (S. 1628), 27985 [15OC]

Aged: catastrophic illness insurance, 28349 [19OC]

———deceptive marketing techniques in sales, 23427 [7AU]

———encourage coverage by private long-term care insurance (H.R. 3501), 30261 [29OC]

———health care, 24034 [15SE]

Antitrust actions: repeal exemptions applicable to insurance industry (H.R. 2727), 11134 [5MY], 16807 [19JN]

Bankruptcy: extend certain pension and health insurance protections under title 11 of the U.S. Code (S. 903), unanimous-consent agreement, 10813 [30AP]

———health and life insurance claims of retired former employees (H.R. 1040), 5481 [12MR]

Banks and banking: regulate certain activities (S. 790), 13124 [20MY], 14207 [2JN], 14715-14721 [4JN], 15228, 15231 [10JN], 18599 [1JY]

———securities, real estate, and insurance regulations, 14513, 14514, 14515, 14516, 14517 [3JN], 14800 [4JN]

Business: liability crisis, 4735 [4MR], 24046 [15SE]

———limit Federal antitrust exemption (H.R. 3749), 35069-35070 [11DE]

Catastrophic illness: coverage, 935, 3447 [18FE], 11248 [5MY], 19058 [8JY], 20104 [15JY]

———coverage for aged and handicapped, 3186, 3190, 3206 [5FE]

———coverage for aged and handicapped (H.R. 1280), 4147 [26FE]

———coverage for aged and handicapped (H.R. 1281), 4147 [26FE]

Catastrophic Health Insurance Act: enact (H.R. 65), 1815 [21JA]

Children: liability of companies that manufacture car seats, 29518 [27OC]

Corporations: solvency, 22135 [3AU]

Dept. of Energy: high-level nuclear waste transportation contractors to carry maximum insurance, 21600 [30JY]

Dept. of HUD: permanent authority for mortgage insurance programs (H.R. 1228), 4050 [25FE]

Diseases: acquired immune deficiency syndrome, 924 [7JA]

Earthquakes: lessons from California, 31279 [9NO]

Employment: manufacturing and service sector, 13682 [21MY]

Fair Labor Standards Act: assure minimum health benefits for all U.S. workers (S. 1265), 13665 [21MY]

FDIC: merger of funds with FSLIC, 16277 [16JN]

Federal Credit Reform Act: enact (H.R. 1754), 6231 [18MR]

Federal Crop Insurance Program: amend (H.R. 2303), 11593 [6MY]

Federal employees: inclusion of treatment of cleft lip and palate conditions in health benefits (H.R. 3429), 26723 [6OC]

———prepaid dental care program (H.R. 3404), 26236 [1OC]

Financial Services Competitive Enhancement Act: enact (H.R. 50), 904 [7JA]

FSLIC: Dept. of the Treasury plan, 7718 [1AP]

———facilitate provision of additional financial resources (H.R. 27), 14801 [4JN]

———financial status, 7681, 7709-7716, 7717-7722 [1AP]

———recapitalization, 16426 [17JN], 16772 [18JN]

———recapitalize (S. 790), 14801, 14803 [4JN]

———transfer health part of industry to FDIC, 7718 [1AP]

FTC: conduct a study and prepare reports relative to insurance sales to the elderly (H.R. 2764), 17604 [25JN]

———restriction over authority (H.R. 3833), 37941 [21DE]

Health Program Act: enact (H.R. 200), 935-939 [7JA]

Health services administration: children, 35927 [16DE]

Illinois: catastrophic illness insurance legislation, 2373 [29JA]

Income: repeal limitation on use of losses from nonlife insurance companies against income of life insurance companies (H.R. 1375), 4702 [3MR]

Individual retirement accounts: allow tax-free distributions for purchase of long-term health-care insurance coverage at age 59\1/2\ (H.R. 1933), 7760 [2AP]

Industry: diversity of leadership, 32686 [18NO]

———insolvencies, 7740 [1AP]

Liability crisis, 5776 [17MR], 16316 [16JN]

LTV Corp.: employee medical and retirement benefits, 2008 [27JA], 4042 [24FE], 2669 [3FE], 3886 [19FE], 10848 [30AP]

Medical care: benefits for U.S. workers, 13682 [21MY]

———cesarean births, 30956 [5NO]

———coverage for uninsured and underinsured, 33194 [20NO]

———deduction for contributions to certain services savings accounts (H.R. 1182), 3467 [18FE]

———extend to women and children, 37931 [21DE]

———increase Government benefit contribution (H.R. 1734), 6431 [19MR], 7579 [31MR]

———long-term protection, 19094 [8JY], 35438 [11DE]

———require plans offered by employers to have catastrophic illness coverage (H.R. 2300), 11590 [6MY]

———tax credit for contributions to certain savings account (H.R. 955), 2720 [4FE]

Medicare: catastrophic illness coverage, 25436 [29SE]

———catastrophic illness coverage (H.R. 1245), 4046, 4049, 4050 [25FE], 4106 [25FE], 4118 [25FE], 4443 [27FE], 5514 [11MR]

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

———defrauding, 24031 [15SE]

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

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

———supplemental insurance, 17623 [25JN]

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

Medicare Part A Catastrophic Protection Act: enact (H.R. 1280), 4147 [26FE], 4433, 4436 [27FE]

Medicare Part B: premium increase, 26607 [6OC]

Medicare Part B Catastrophic Protection Act: enact (H.R. 1281), 4147 [26FE], 4433, 4436 [27FE]

Medicare/medicaid: catastrophic insurance for aged and handicapped, 4932 [5MR]

Mission Insurance: liquidation, 3317 [11FE]

National Flood Insurance Act: revise payments to encourage owners of structures on land subject to subsidence to remove them (H.R. 1823), 6720 [25MR]

National Voluntary Health Insurance Act: establish (H.R. 169), 30256 [29OC]

New Jersey: insurance industry insolvencies, 7401 [31MR]

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.: priority in bankruptcy proceedings for unsettled claims (H.R. 2863), 18701 [1JY]

Pensions: continuation of health insurance (H.R. 1072), 5271 [10MR]

Physicians: liability lawsuits, 24046 [15SE]

———reduce malpractice insurance, 19558 [13JY]

Product liability: standards and procedures, 2658 [3FE], 3242 [10FE]

Product Liability Uniform Standards Act: enact (H.R. 430), 869 [7JA]

Protection Mutual Insurance Co., Park Ridge, IL: anniversary, 26252 [1OC]

Provident Life and Accident Insurance Co.: tribute, 944 [7JA]

Public Health Service Act: assure minimum health benefits for all U.S. workers (S. 1265), 13665 [21MY]

Public lands: insurance for recreational events (H.R. 2095), 9034 [10AP]

Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act: amend to ensure payment of benefits (H.R. 2167), 9691, 9697 [23AP], 28352 [19OC], 31319, 31325-31329, 31394 [9NO]

———amend to ensure payment of benefits (H.R. 2167), technical corrections, 31395 [9NO]

———assure sufficient resources to pay benefits and increase daily maximum benefit provided (H.R. 1356), 4706 [3MR]

Regulations: minimum standards for company solvency, 31721 [10NO]

Reserve Mining Co.: health and life insurance benefits for retirees, 10848 [30AP]

SBA: disclosure of certain data (H.R. 3688), 33769-33772 [2DE]

Small business: forced expansion of employees' benefits, 15498 [11JN]

Social Security: child's insurance benefits for postsecondary school students (H.R. 1976), 8288 [7AP]

———disability insurance benefits, 2670 [3FE]

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

———medicare and medicaid coverage, 4790 [4MR]

———medicare catastrophic illness coverage (H.R. 1245), 4443 [27FE]

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

———services for medically uninsured (H.R. 1182), 3467 [18FE]

Solvency, 32556 [17NO]

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

Statistics: collection and analysis of certain data (H.R. 3643), 31975 [16NO]

Taxation: charitable gift annuities relative to determining whether organizations are treated as providing commercial-type insurance (H.R. 2929), 19827 [14JY]

———church self-funded death benefit plans (H.R. 3147), 23386 [7AU]

———credit for contributions to medical care savings account (H.R. 955), 2720 [4FE]

———deduction for health insurance costs (H.R. 3065), 22161 [3AU], 23417 [7AU]

———exempt status of workers' compensation self-insurance funds, 5101 [9MR]

———interest on health insurance indebtedness (H.R. 3778), 36504 [18DE]

———life insurance and annuity contracts (H.R. 3441), 26794 [7OC], 28831 [22OC], 29763 [28OC]

———payment of long-term care insurance premiums (H.R. 2997), 21063 [23JY], 27163 [9OC]

———payment of long-term care insurance premiums (H.R. 2998), 21063 [23JY], 27163 [9OC]

———repeal limitation on use of losses from nonlife insurance companies against income of life insurance companies (H.R. 1375), 10287 [28AP]

———treatment of reserves of long-term care insurance policies (H.R. 3438), 26739 [6OC]

———treatment of self-insured workers' compensation funds (H.R. 1709), 6240 [18MR]

Trauma Care and Emergency Medical Services Planning and Development Act: enact, 23393 [7AU]

Tyler, TX: New Medico Rehabilitation Center opening, 29753 [28OC]

Unemployment: integrated service delivery and other demonstration projects to test methods of reemploying dislocated unemployment insurance recipients (H.R. 3213), 23465 [7AU]

Remarks in Senate

Access to Health Insurance for Medically Uninsurable Individuals Act: enact (S. 1634), 23215, 23218 [7AU]

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome: system of cost sharing for health care and uncompensated care for uninsured, 614 [6JA]

Aged and handicapped: catastrophic health insurance coverage (S. 210), 637 [6JA]

Antitrust Damages Clarification Act: enact (S. 808), 6493 [20MR]

Antitrust policy: exemption (S. 80), 540-542 [6JA]

Aviation Insurance Program: reauthorizing (S. 1628), 23753 [10SE]

Bankruptcy: extend certain protections under title 11 of U.S. Code (S. 1783), 27311, 27325 [9OC], 27843 [14OC]

———protection of certain pension and health insurance (S. 903), 7852 [2AP], 8951 [10AP]

———protection of health and life insurance benefits for retirees (S. 548), 3730-3732 [19FE]

Banks and banking: clarify limitations on insurance activities (S. 706), 5165 [10MR], 28993 [22OC]

———FDIC discretionary authority, 7117 [27MR]

———regulate certain activities (S. 790), 6304 [19MR], 6790, 6803-6838, 6840-6844 [25MR], 6978, 6991-7020, 7022 [26MR], 7108-7148, 7170 [27MR], 12439-12441 [14MY], 14266 [2JN], 18586 [1JY], 36012 [17DE]

Catastrophic diseases: coverage, 2081 [28JA], 29794 [29OC]

———Federal aid, 3140 [5FE]

Child Health Incentives Reform Plan: enact (S. 968), 8764-8766 [9AP]

Children: financial reimbursement to military families for sudden infant death syndrome detection, 24376, 24377 [17SE]

———health insurance coverage for disabled adopted (S. Con. Res. 95), 37835 [21DE]

———health insurance coverage for disabled (S. Con. Res. 6), 777 [6JA]

Committee on Aging (Special): hearing in Alabama, 8403 [8AP]

Competitive Equality Banking Act: strike provisions that create exemptions from Balanced Budget and Deficit Reduction Act, 7121-7124 [27MR]

Courts: liability reform, 15449 [11JN]

District of Columbia: acquired immune deficiency syndrome tests, 25796, 25798-25814 [30SE], 26197 [1OC]

Employment: minimum health benefits for all U.S. workers (S. 1265), 13576, 13583 [21MY]

Federal Crime Insurance Program: extend authorization (S. 26), 451 [6JA], 7448 [31MR]

Federal employees: long-term health care insurance (S. 1738), 25876 [30SE]

Federal Employees Health Care Freedom-of-Choice Act: enact (S. 1162), 11620 [7MY]

Federal Housing Administration: insuring authority, 29660 [28OC], 25384 [26SE]

———permanent authority to insure home mortgages (S. 531), 3861 [19FE]

FSLIC: deposits in federally insured financial institutions (S. Con. Res. 28), 5367 [11MR]

General Aviation Accident Liability Standards Act: enact (S. 473), 2913 [4FE]

Health insurance: catastrophic coverage (S. 210), 637 [6JA]

———proposed mandatory coverage by employers, 3818 [19FE]

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

Housing: anniversary of private mortgage insurance industry, 5078 [6MR]

Housing and Community Development Act: Federal crime insurance program, 7448 [31MR]

———multifamily coinsurance program, 7448 [31MR]

Indians: surety bond guarantees, 32026 [17NO]

Insurance Competition Act: enact (S. 804), 6491, 6492 [20MR]

Insurance Competition Improvement Act: enact (S. 1299), 14146 [29MY]

Interstate commerce: uniform product liability law (S. 687), 5051 [6MR]

Medical care: access, 20590 [21JY]

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

———long-term, 23164 [7AU]

Medicare: coverage for extended care services (S. 775), 6112 [18MR]

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

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

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

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

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

Medicare Catastrophic Illness Coverage Act: enact (S. 592), 4164 [26FE]

Medicare Catastrophic Loss Prevention Act: enact (S. 1127), 11078 -11080, 11088-11094 [5MY], 21957 [3AU], 22181 [4AU], 22418 [5AU], 23189 [7AU], 26300 [2OC], 26817 [7OC], 27259, 27260 [9OC], 27347-27361 [13OC], 28182 [16OC], 29132-29134 [23OC], 29314-29340, 29343-29435 [27OC], 29634, 29636, 29639-29641 [28OC], 29899-29901 [29OC]

Medicare Part C—Catastrophic Health Insurance Act: enact (S. 454), 2751 [4FE]

Mutual life insurance companies: tax treatment (S. 566), 3772 [19FE]

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

National defense: U.S. military handling of damage claims resulting from training in Federal Republic of Germany, 24369, 24371 [17SE]

Pensions: private sector efforts to alleviate losses suffered by retirees and employees as a result of plan termination (S. Con. Res. 58), 12309 [13MY]

Product liability law: limit (S. 711), 5335 [11MR]

Retired Benefits Security Act: enact (S. 548), 21094 [24JY], 3730-3732 [19FE]

Retiree Health Protection and Long-Term Care Insurance Act: enact (S. 1739), 26161-26168 [1OC]

Safety: product liability problems for manufacturers of child car seats, 29879 [29OC]

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

———supplemental medicare premiums for elderly taxpayers, 27359 [13OC]

Social Security Reorganization Act: enact (S. 765), 6006, 6013-6015 [18MR]

Taxation: deductions for cost of health insurance coverage for self-employed (S. 1370), 16167 [16JN]

———deductions for cost of health insurance coverage for self-employed (S. 1386), 16643 [18JN]

———exclude from gross income amounts withdrawn from Individual Retirement plans for payment of long-term care insurance premiums (S. 1832), 29884 [29OC]

———treat church self-funded death benefit plans as life insurance contracts (S. 1263), 13574 [21MY]

———use of consolidated tax returns by insurance companies (S. 1404), 17013 [23JN]

VA: tort claims and hospital cost collections (S. 1063), 9141 [21AP]

Veterans: exempt certain insurance from State taxation (S. 1090), 9441-9443 [23AP]

———higher installments payable to certain annuitants (S. 1090), 9441-9443 [23AP]

———remove certain gender references (S. 495), 3083 [5FE]

Wisconsin: rural health care, 25060 [24SE]

Reports

Catastrophic Illness Health Insurance, 29374 [27OC]

Competitive Equality Banking Act: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, 6825, 6826 [25MR]

Insurance and Antitrust Laws: National Commission for the Review of Antitrust Laws and Procedures (1979), 14146 [29MY]

Liability Insurance: Dept. of Commerce, 31975 [16NO]

Premium/Investment Policies: National Association of Insurance Brokers, 31975 [16NO]

Private Sector Solutions for Long-Term Health Care: Republican Study Committee, 20104 [15JY]

Product Liability—Corporate Response: Nathan Weber, 20168-20176 [17JY]

Task Force on Small Rural Hospitals: Minnesota Hospital Association, 11447-11456 [6MY]

Reports filed

Aviation Insurance Program Extension: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (S. 1628) (S. Rept. 100-147), 23199 [7AU]

Extension of Pension and Health Insurance Protections Under Bankruptcy Laws: Committee on the Judiciary (S. 903), 8759 [9AP]

Medicare Catastrophic Loss Prevention Act: Committee on Finance (S. 1127) (S. Rept. 100-126), 21249 [28JY]

Railroad Unemployment Insurance and Retirement Improvement Act: Committee on Energy and Commerce (H.R. 2167) (H. Rept. 100-102), 13431 [21MY]

———Committee on Ways and Means (H.R. 2167) (H. Rept. 100-02), 27985 [15OC], 28346 [19OC]

Retired Benefits Security Act: Committee on the Judiciary (S. 548), 20240 [17JY]

Reports to constituents

Hamilton, Lee H.: Health Care Policy, 20114 [15JY]

Statements

Adult Day Care: National Council on Aging, 29384 [27OC]

Catastrophic Illness and Long-Term Health Care: Harley Tabak, 19574 [13JY]

———Linda Schofield, Travelers Insurance Co., 19095 [8JY]

———President Reagan, 3447 [18FE]

———Senator Wallop, 29335 [27OC]

———Susan Van Gelder, Health Insurance Association of America, 19094 [8JY]

Competitive Equality Banking Act: Jill M. Considine, 6835 [25MR]

———President Reagan, 6836 [25MR]

Exemption of Insurance Business From Antitrust Laws, 541 [6JA]

Federal Health Plan Costs: Blue Cross and Blue Shield, 29367 [27OC]

FSLIC Crisis Resolution: Bank Board, 7718 [1AP]

Insurance and Antitrust Laws: Franklin D. Roosevelt, 14146 [29MY]

Medicare Catastrophic Protection Act: Committee on Finance, 29410 [27OC]

———George R. Fisher, 20794 [22JY]

Medicare Costs: Senator Armstrong, 29325 [27OC]

Medicare Payroll Taxes: Senator Durenberger, 29325 [27OC]

Seniors Surtax, State Law Problems, and the Role of Private Insurance: Senator Karnes, 26817 [7OC]

State Unemployment Insurance Service Operations: by, 14130 [29MY]

———Senator Chiles, 14130 [29MY]

———Senator Metzenbaum, 14130 [29MY]

Studies

Averting a Crisis in Rural Health Care: Minnesota Medical Association, 11456 [6MY]

Long-Term Care and Personal Impoverishment—7 in 10 Elderly Alone Are at Risk, 35438 [11DE]

Summaries

Federal Employees Dental Benefit Plan Act (H.R. 3404), 26236 [1OC]

Health Care for the Uninsured Act (S. 177), 614 [6JA]

Health Program Act (H.R. 200), 935-939 [7JA]

MedAmerica Act (H.R. 3580), 30256 [29OC]

Medicare Catastrophic Loss Prevention Act (S. 1127), 29899 [29OC]

Require Health Insurance Plans Offered by Employers To Have Catastrophic Illness Coverage (H.R. 2300), 11590 [6MY]

Surveys

Life Insurers Writing Individual Life Insurance in the District of Columbia in December 1986, 25798 [30SE]

Tables

Distributional effect of Medicare Catastrophic Loss Protection Act (S. 1127), 27359 [13OC]

Housing and Community Development Act, 31810, 31811 [12NO]

Impact of H.R. 2470 and S. 1127 on medicare enrollees, 1990, 28182 [16OC]

Projected medicare part B monthly premium increases, 29315 [27OC]

Supplemental premiums under S. 1127, the Catastrophic Health Loss Prevention Act, 29363 [27OC]

Testimonies

Catastrophic Illness Care: Joseph Drew, 19582 [13JY]

———Paul Willging, 2751 [4FE]

Child Car Seats: Jonathan Reynolds, 29518 [27OC]

Competitive Equality Banking Act: Paul A. Volcker, 6823 [25MR]

FSLIC Asset Quality Problems: GAO, 7716 [1AP]

FSLIC Insolvency Determination: GAO, 7715 [1AP]

FSLIC Organizational Constraints: George D. Gould, 6843 [25MR]

Illegal Activities in the Senior Citizens Insurance Market: Patricia R. Petersen, 23428-23430 [7AU]

Insurance Industry: National Federation of Independent Business, 31975 [16NO]

———Thomas O'Day, 31975 [16NO]

———Washington State Insurance Commissioner, 31975 [16NO]

Product Liability and Child Car Seats: Jonathan Reynolds, Cosco, Inc., 29879 [29OC]

Texts of

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. 1976, Social Security insurance benefits for postsecondary school students, 8289 [7AP]

H.R. 2167, amend Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act to ensure payment of benefits, 31319-31325 [9NO]

H.R. 2764, FTC study relative to insurance sales to the elderly, 17605 [25JN]

H.R. 3065, tax deductions for health insurance costs, 22161 [3AU]

H.R. 3147, church self-funded death benefit plans treated as life insurance contracts, 23387 [7AU]

H.R. 3404, Federal employees prepaid dental care program, 26237 [1OC]

H.R. 3441, taxation of life insurance and annuity contracts, 26795 [7OC]

S. 26, extend Federal Crime Insurance Program, 452 [6JA]

S. 35, National Academy of Social Insurance charter, 475 [6JA]

S. 80, repeal insurance exemption from antitrust laws, 542 [6JA]

S. 177, Health Care for the Uninsured Act, 615 [6JA]

S. 210, catastrophic health insurance coverage for aged and handicapped, 638 [6JA]

S. 283, medicare extended care coverage, 750 [6JA]

S. 454, Medicare Part C—Catastrophic Health Insurance Act, 2752-2757 [4FE]

S. 473, General Aviation Accident Liability Standards Act, 2912 [4FE]

S. 495, remove certain gender references relative to veterans benefits, 3083 [5FE]

S. 548, Retiree Benefits Security Act, 3730 [19FE]

S. 687, uniform product liability law, 5053-5054 [6MR]

S. 688, uniform product liability law, 5055-5056 [6MR]

S. 711, limit product liability law, 5335-5343 [11MR]

S. 765, Social Security Reorganization Act, 6007-6013 [18MR]

S. 790, Competitive Equality Banking Act, 6978 [26MR], 7148-7169 [27MR]

S. 808, Antitrust Damages Clarification Act, 6494 [20MR]

S. 903, bankruptcy protection of certain pension and health insurance, 7852 [2AP], 8952 [10AP], 10814 [30AP]

S. 968, Child Health Incentives Reform Plan, 8766 [9AP]

S. 1063, VA tort claims and hospital cost collections, 9141 [21AP]

S. 1090, veterans' and servicemen's insurance payments, 9441 [23AP]

S. 1127, Medicare Catastrophic Loss Prevention Act, 11080-11088 [5MY], 27347-27355 [13OC]

S. 1207, Medicare Rural Health Services Transition Act, 12501 [14MY]

S. 1240, amend title XVIII of Social Security Act, 13238 [20MY]

S. 1263, treat church self-funded death benefit plans as life insurance contracts for tax purposes, 13574 [21MY]

S. 1265, assure minimum health benefits for all U.S. workers, 13578-13582 [21MY]

S. 1299, Insurance Competition Improvement Act, 14148 [29MY]

S. 1360, funding for Indian economic growth, 32026 [17NO]

S. 1370, tax deductions for cost of health insurance coverage for self-employed, 16167 [16JN]

S. 1404, use of consolidated tax returns by insurance companies, 17013 [23JN]

S. 1577, protections under bankruptcy title 11, 21926 [31JY]

S. 1628, Aviation Insurance Program reauthorization, 23753 [10SE], 27986 [15OC]

S. 1634, Access to Health Insurance for Medically Uninsurable Individuals Act, 23215-23218 [7AU]

S. 1738, long-term care insurance for Federal employees, 25876 [30SE]

S. 1739, Retiree Health Protection and Long-Term Care Insurance Act, 26163-26168 [1OC]

S. 1832, exclusion from gross income amounts withdrawn from Individual Retirement plans for payment of long-term care insurance premiums, 29884 [29OC]

S. Con. Res. 6, health insurance coverage for disabled adopted children, 776 [6JA]

S. Con. Res. 28, FSLIC deposits in federally insured financial institutions, 5367 [11MR]

S. Con. Res. 58, private sector efforts to alleviate losses suffered by retirees and employees as a result of pension plan termination, 12309 [13MY]

S. Con. Res. 95, health insurance coverage for disabled adopted children, 37835 [21DE]