INSURANCE

Addresses

National Health Care Campaign: Representative Rostenkowski, 22385 [11AU]

Rural Health Care: Senator Bentsen, 25229 [23SE]

Taking Charge of Our Future—A Healthy America: Michael S. Dukakis, Governor of Massachusetts, 25224 [23SE], 25226-25228 [23SE]

Taking Charge of Our Future—Our Senior Citizens: Michael S. Dukakis, Governor of Massachusetts, 25230 [23SE]

Toward Better Health Insurance Coverage: Karen Davis, 25599 [26SE]

Amendments

Federal employees: health insurance benefits program (H.R. 5102), 30979, 30980, 31135 [14OC]

Health maintenance organizations: revise program of assistance (H.R. 3235), 21962, 21963, 22033, 22035 [11AU]

Analyses

Financial Intermediaries Review Commission: American Bankers Association, 2470 [24FE]

Legal Status of Certain Federal Home Loan Bank System Entities, 29634-29636 [7OC]

Student Health Insurance Plans: Dept. of Education, 354-356 [28JA]

Appointments

Conferees: H.R. 3235, revise program of assistance for health maintenance organizations, 27915 [3OC]

Articles and editorials

Act Quickly to Resolve Cases, 29699 [11OC]

Adopt Risk-Based Insurance, 29699 [11OC]

After the Storm, 5155-5157 [24MR]

AIDS Law Drives Insurance Firms From DC—Many City Residents Are Buying Policies in the Suburbs, 8998 [27AP]

Americans Favor National Health Insurance, but May Not Be Willing To Pay for It, 4813 [22MR]

Better Way To Help U.S. Banks, 608 [2FE]

Big Changes Proposed for Doctors' Fees—Surgeons Could Get Much Less—GP's More, 25274 [23SE]

Costly Gamble With Babies' Lives, 8851 [26AP]

Costly Procedures Under Scrutiny, 19564 [28JY]

County Braces for More Casualties in Emergency Care, 10870 [12MY]

Crisis Is Over—But Insurance Will Never Be the Same, 5154 [24MR]

Demand Rising for Insurance That Covers Long-Term Care, 2907 [2MR], 3489 [4MR]

Down Payment Often the Death of a Dream—Rocketing Rates Make First Step To Buying Home Difficult To Take, 24352 [16SE]

Dukakis' Vision or Nightmare, 29864 [11OC]

8 States Sue U.S., British Insurers, 5153 [24MR]

Fact—FSLIC Needs Bailout, 29700 [11OC]

FADA-Compli—Wonderfully Blunt, Well-Written Report, 29654 [7OC]

Few Options Without Health Insurance, 31988 [19OC]

Find New Funds, Restore Confidence, 29700 [11OC]

First, Clean Up to the Mess, 29700 [11OC]

Four Big Insurers Charged With Scheme to Limit Commercial Liability Coverage, 5152 [24MR]

He Pilots National Life Into New Era, 13481 [6JN]

Helping Small Firms Afford Health Insurance, 32146 [20OC]

HMO Troubles With Medicare, 2465 [24FE]

Hospital Shuts Its Emergency Room; Ripple Effect Feared, 10870 [12MY]

Insurance Covers Long-Term Care, 291 [27JA]

Joint and Several Liability—A Case For Reform, 5192-5193 [24MR]

Major Banks Have Paid Too Little for Full FDIC Coverage, 8375 [21AP]

Medical Care's Next Revolution, 25986-25988 [28SE]

Merge the FSLIC and FDIC, 29700 [11OC]

Minority Contractors, Underwriters Clash on Issuance of Surety Bonds, 20340 [3AU]

Most Long-Term-Care Insurance Criticized—Consumers Union Cites Deficiencies, Costs, 8662 [25AP]

Myopic on Thrifts, 29861 [11OC]

National Initiatives for Care of the Medically Needy, 29131-29134 [6OC]

Pass Bank Reforms, 1714 [18FE]

Patient Insurer, 4612 [21MR], 4805 [22MR], 7074 [15AP]

Radical Realignment Is Needed, 29701 [11OC]

Restore Discipline to the System, 29699 [11OC]

Shortcomings in Insurance Can't Be Ignored, 9690 [2MY]

States and Insurance Industry Battling on Liability Coverage, 5151 [24MR]

States Launch Antitrust Suit Against the Insurance Industry—Probe of 1984-86 Liability Crisis Led to Legal Action, 5151 [24MR]

Take Off the Hobbles, 610 [2FE]

Three Steps to Stability, 29699 [11OC]

Thrift System Breaking Down, 29588 [7OC]

Timely S & L Closings Urged, 32854 [21OC]

U.S. System—Errors of Youth, 5093 [23MR]

Wooing Workers in the 1990's—New Role for Family Benefits, 27406 [3OC]

Bills and resolutions

Agriculture: commission to review the Federal crop insurance program (see S. 2830; H.R. 5325)

———crop insurance coverage for dry edible beans (see H.R. 4911)

———exclude certain cash wages paid to seasonal laborers from coverage under certain insurance programs (see S. 2577)

Banks and banking: deposit insurance (see S. 2722; H.R. 4061, 5094)

———extend prohibition on voluntary termination of any thrift institution's insured status (see H.R. 4711)

———notice to depositors that funds exceed federally insurable amounts (see H.R. 5487)

———protect federally insured financial institutions from certain hazards in securities, insurance, and real estate activities (see H.R. 3930)

Budget: removal of hospital insurance trust fund (see H.R. 4895)

Consumers: require commercial lessors to provide certain information concerning collision damage waivers (see H.R. 4855)

Depository Institution Regulatory Modernization Act: enact (see H.R. 3970)

Employee Benefit Standards in Government Contracting Act: enact (see H.R. 5349)

Employee Health Benefit Improvement Act: enact (see H.R. 4951)

End Stage Renal Disease Patient Protection and Quality Assurance Act: enact (see H.R. 5515)

FCIC: establish a national commission to study (see H.R. 5072)

FDIC: fair deposit insurance assessment (see S. 2303)

Federal employees: extend health insurance and survivor annuity benefits to certain former spouses (see H.R. 4603)

———health insurance benefits program (see H.R. 5102)

———health insurance coverage for certain unmarried full-time students (see H.R. 5473)

———long-term care insurance (see H.R. 5167)

———repeal the reinsurance requirement under the life insurance program (see H.R. 5270)

Financial Intermediaries Review Commission: establish (see H.R. 3930)

Foreign Aid Insurance Act: enact (see S. 2422)

Foreign Assistance Act: participation of U.S. companies in foreign activities (see H.R. 4664)

FSLIC: extending moratorium on thrift institutions' voluntarily terminating deposit insurance provided by (see S. 2451)

Handicapped: deduction for amount of paid premiums on certain life insurance contracts establishing a trust for benefit of a disabled individual (see H.R. 4201)

Health insurance: benefits (see H.R. 4829)

———continuation of coverage (see S. 2401)

———coverage of drug and alcohol abuse treatment (see H.R. 5507)

———technical corrections in the continuation coverage requirements of group plans (see H.R. 5080)

———special rules for costs of self-employed individuals (see S. 2234)

Housing: mortgages for first-time home buyers (see H.R. 4708)

———requirements for residential mortgage loans and administration of escrow accounts (see H.R. 5067)

Indians: ensure proper coverage under Older Americans Act (see S. 2801)

Lifecare Long-Term Care Protection Act: enact (see S. 2681)

Long-Term Care Insurance Consumer Protection Act: enact (see S. 2636)

Maryland Deposit Insurance Fund Corp.: tax treatment (see S. 2172)

Medicaid: hospice coverage (see H.R. 3913)

———nursing facility coverage (see H.R. 4631)

Medicare: eliminate premium increases in part B insurance program for certain individuals (see H.R. 3998)

———eliminate reimbursement differential between hospitals in different areas (see S. 2759)

———hospital payment system (see H.R. 4511)

———penalties for certain improper referral arrangements (see H.R. 5198)

———protect patients against inappropriate transfer from participating hospitals (see H.R. 5468)

———voluntary certification of supplemental policies (see S. 2243)

———wage index for payment of hospitals (see H.R. 5298)

Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act: permit individuals to elect not to pay premiums or receive benefits (see H.R. 5418)

———repeal (see H.R. 5463)

Motor vehicles: require commercial lessors to provide certain information concerning collision damage waivers (see H.R. 4855)

OPIC: insurance, reinsurance, and financing eligible projects in Poland (see S. 2702)

Refuse and refuse disposal: liability insurance for underground storage tanks (see H.R. 4090, 4098)

Social Security: annual personal earnings and benefit statements to those workers covered (see S. 2441)

———benefit incentives for individuals and employers who purchase long-term care insurance (see H.R. 3900)

———coverage of certain pregnant women and infants (see S. 2046)

———coverage of individuals by private long-term health care insurance (see H.R. 4593)

———improvements in the old-age, survivors, disability insurance and SSI programs (see S. 2755; H.R. 5250, 5335)

———long-term care insurance policies (see H.R. 5085)

———prohibiting adjustments in certain individuals' monthly insurance benefits (see H.R. 4390)

———reconciliation of discrepant earnings records and restrictions against reduction of benefits (see H.R. 4018)

———repeal medicare participating physician and maximum allowable actual charge programs and eliminate carrier actions requiring physicians to refund amount collected for services deemed not necessary (see H.R. 5555)

Taxation: certain nonprofit hospital insurers taxable income (see H.R. 4555)

———credit for the cost of long-term health care insurance (see S. 2212)

———funding of retiree health plans (see S. 2784)

———gross income exclusion relative to certain personal injury liability assignments (see H.R. 4191)

———health insurance costs for self-employed individuals (see H.R. 5169)

———long-term health insurance (see H.R. 4510, 4631, 5145)

———retain limited deduction of health insurance costs of self-employed individuals (see H.R. 4852)

———treatment of certain amounts paid under life insurance contracts on account of illness or disability (see H.R. 5095)

———treatment of nonprofit hospital insurers (see S. 2543)

VA: payment of interest in settlements and increased discount rates for premiums paid in advance (see S. 2464)

———review of claims for benefits (see H.R. 5288)

Workers' Health Insurance Demonstration Act: enact (see S. 2027)

Descriptions

National Rural Health Care Act (H.R. 5492), 29637-29640 [7OC]

Explanations

Financial Modernization Act's managers amendment: Senators Proxmire and Garn, 6060-6062 [31MR]

Factsheets

Lifecare Long-Term Care Protection Act (S. 2681), 20144 [3AU]

Massachusetts Healthy Start Program, 25226 [23SE]

Letters

Abortion coverage under Federal Employees Health Benefits Program: John F. Leyden, AFL-CIO, 14748 [15JN]

———Lynne Revo-Cohen, Federally Employed Women (organization), 14748 [15JN]

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome research and information, 8998 [27AP]

Commission to review the Federal crop insurance program: Peter C. Myers, 25328 [26SE]

Continuation of health care coverage: Iowa Association of Business & Industry, 11170 [16MY]

Cost estimate on H.R. 5094, insurance of the thrift industry: James L. Blum, 29653 [7OC]

Coverage of tribal contractors under the Federal Tort Claims Act: several Members of Congress, 18161 [13JY]

Deposit insurance for banks and banking: (sundry), 2990-2994 [2MR]

Federal and postal employees health benefits: representative of several organizations, 14326 [14JN]

Federal Asset Disposition Association: Milton J. Socolar, 29634 [7OC]

Federal Crop Insurance Program: several Representatives, 29511 [7OC]

Financial Modernization Act: sundry organizations, 5795 [30MR]

Fire insurance proceeds: VA, 31395 [18OC]

Foreign bank deposits: David Ballweg, 3038 [2MR]

———F.J. Vergatiwen, 3038 [2MR]

———H. Lee Swanson, 3037 [2MR]

———Helge S. Christensen, 3038 [2MR]

———James W. Schultz, 3038 [2MR]

———John Diedrich, 3038 [2MR]

———Neil R. Parker, 3038 [2MR]

———Richard A. Braun, 3038 [2MR]

———Robert B. Furman, 3037 [2MR]

———Robert C. Gorsuch, 3038 [2MR]

———William R. MacLeod, 3038 [2MR]

FSLIC problems: Representative Gonzalez, 32854 [21OC]

General Aviation Accident Liability Standards Act: B. Wayne Vance, 28346 [5OC]

———C. William Verity, Jr., Sec. of Commerce, 28346 [5OC]

———Thomas M. Boyd, 28346 [5OC]

Health programs for rural areas: several Senators, 19048 [27JY]

Home equity loans section of the Financial Modernization Act: Robert Bianchini, 5800 [30MR]

Minimum Health Benefits for All Workers Act: CBO, 25296 [26SE]

Payment of interest in veterans' insurance settlements and increased discount rates for premiums paid in advance: Thomas K. Turnage, VA, 13024 [27MY]

Memorials of legislature

California, 29796 [11OC]

Hawaii, 10017 [9MY], 11946 [23MY]

Massachusetts, 461 [1FE]

Minnesota, 9155 [27AP], 11338 [17MY], 14024 [9JN]

Ohio, 18470 [14JY], 19758 [1AU]

Pennsylvania, 25 [25JA]

South Carolina, 10017 [9MY], 11018 [13MY]

Newsletters

OPIC to assist U.S. business investments in Poland's private sector economy: Polish-American Congress, 21248 [9AU]

Papers

George Bush and Health Care, 25230 [23SE]

Health in Rural America: Michael S. Dukakis, Governor of Massachusetts, 25229 [23SE]

Healthy Families: Michael S. Dukakis, Governor of Massachusetts, 25228 [23SE]

Healthy Start on Life: Michael S. Dukakis, Governor of Massachusetts, 25225 [23SE]

Nation's Health During the Reagan-Bush Years—The Health of America's Children, 25225 [23SE]

Senator Quayle on Health Issues, 25231 [23SE]

Petitions

Medicare Long Term Home Care Catastrophic Protection Act: New York, NY, City Council, 10658 [12MY]

Payment of referral costs of FSM patients outside medical institutions: Pacific Island Trust Territory, 6012 [31MR]

Polls of opinion

California: 23d District, 25060 [22SE]

Proposals

National long-term health care policy, 30637 [14OC]

Questions and answers

Healthy family proposals, 25228 [23SE]

National health start, 25226 [23SE]

Rural health, 25230 [23SE]

Remarks in House

Abortion: restriction on coverage under Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, 14747, 14748, 14750 [15JN]

Aged: long-term health care, 291 [27JA], 30636 [14OC]

———rising health care costs, 33454 [21OC]

———solvency of health maintenance organizations, 2465 [24FE]

Agriculture: crop insurance coverage for dry edible beans (H.R. 4911), 15872 [23JN]

Banks and banking: deposit insurance, 20519 [4AU], 29982 [12OC], 30180 [12OC]

———deposit insurance (H.R. 4061), 2990 [2MR], 3037 [2MR]

———deposit insurance (H.R. 5094), 29652 [7OC], 30621 [13OC], 31989 [19OC], 32364 [20OC], 33122 [21OC]

———extend prohibition on voluntary termination of any thrift institution's insured status (H.R. 4711), 12760 [26MY]

———protect federally insured financial institutions from certain hazards in securities, insurance, and real estate activities (H.R. 3930), 1338 [9FE], 2438 [24FE], 2469 [24FE]

Budget: removal of hospital insurance trust fund (H.R. 4895), 15741 [22JN]

Children: health insurance coverage for disabled adopted (S. Con. Res. 95), 18880 [26JY]

Continental Title Insurance Co.: tribute, 33458 [21OC]

Depository Institution Regulatory Modernization Act: enact (H.R. 3970), 1696 [18FE]

Dukakis, Michael S.: health care policy, 24603 [20SE]

Employee Benefit Standards in Government Contracting Act: enact (H.R. 5349), 25266 [23SE]

Employee Health Benefit Improvement Act: enact (H.R. 4951), 6970 [11AU], 16520 [29JN]

End Stage Renal Disease Patient Protection and Quality Assurance Act: enact (H.R. 5515), 30169 [12OC]

Everitt, Eddie: liver transplant, 14780 [16JN]

Federal Asset Disposition Association: revoke charter (H.R. 4646), 29633, 29647, 29650-29652, 29654-29656 [7OC]

Federal Crop Insurance Corp.: anniversary, 1459, 1465 [16FE]

———commission to review and make recommendations for improvement (H.R. 5325), 24353 [16SE], 25456, 25462, 25463 [26SE]

Federal employees: extend health insurance and survivor annuity benefits to certain former spouses (H.R. 4603), 11083 [13MY]

———health insurance benefits program (H.R. 5102), 19569 [28JY], 24294-24298 [16SE]

———health insurance benefits program (H.R. 5102), concurring in Senate amendment, 31830, 31831 [19OC]

———health insurance coverage, 14484 [14JN]

———long-term care insurance (H.R. 5167), 20506 [4AU], 21121 [8AU]

———repeal the reinsurance requirement under the life insurance program (H.R. 5270), 23697 [13SE]

Financial Intermediaries Review Commission: establish (H.R. 3930), 1338 [9FE], 2438 [24FE], 2469 [24FE]

Financial Modernization Act: enact (S. 1886), 31989 [19OC]

Foreign Assistance Act: participation of U.S. companies in foreign activities (H.R. 4664), 12213 [24MY]

FSLIC: assistance programs, 9702 [3MY]

Government securities: permit variable contracts to be invested (H.R. 4862), 15290 [20JN]

Handicapped: deduction for amount of paid premiums on certain life insurance contracts establishing a trust for benefit of a disabled individual (H.R. 4201), 4369 [17MR]

Health care: benefits (H.R. 4829), 14774 [15JN]

———Block Grant Program (S. 1579), appointment of conferees, 23332 [9SE]

———Block Grant Program (S. 1579), conference report, 28569 [5OC]

———coverage for the poor, 10870 [12MY]

———exclude from medicare and State health programs physicians who violated regulations governing investigation of new drugs (H.R. 5530), 30637 [14OC]

———Federal control of costs, 25274 [23SE]

———increasing medical costs, 26848 [29SE]

———long-term care, 8662 [25AP], 18482 [14JY], 20014 [2AU], 31793 [19OC]

———national insurance coverage survey, 4813 [22MR]

———unnecessary medical and surgical procedures, 19564 [28JY]

Housing: mortgages for first-time home buyers (H.R. 4708), 12552 [26MY], 24352 [16SE], 32182 [20OC]

———requirements for residential mortgage loans and administration of escrow accounts (H.R. 5067), 18504 [14JY]

Liability crisis: impact on small business and municipalities, 11533 [18MY]

Medicaid: hospice coverage (H.R. 3913), 994 [4FE]

———nursing facility coverage (H.R. 4631), 11410 [18MY]

Medicare: coverage for liver transplants, 14780 [16JN]

———hospital payment system (H.R. 4511), 9803 [3MY]

———penalties for certain improper referral arrangements (H.R. 5198), 2724 [11AU]

———protect patients against inappropriate transfer from participating hospitals (H.R. 5468), 28668 [5OC]

Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act: permit individuals to elect not to pay premiums or receive benefits (H.R. 5418), 26828 [29SE]

———repeal (H.R. 5463), 28498 [5OC]

Motor vehicles: require commercial lessors to provide certain information to customers concerning collision damage waivers (H.R. 4855), 15026 [16JN]

National Association for the Self-Employed: study on health insurance for small business, 2720 [11AU]

Ogilvy, Gilvert, Norris & Hill: anniversary, 13887 [8JN]

Poverty: health care, 29131 [6OC]

Public Health Service Act: revise program of assistance for health maintenance organizations (H.R. 3235), appointment of conferees, 27915 [3OC]

———revise program of assistance for health maintenance organizations (H.R. 3235), conference report, 28570 [5OC]

Refuse and refuse disposal: liability insurance for underground storage tanks (H.R. 4090), 3261 [3MR]

———liability insurance for underground storage tanks (H.R. 4098), 3309, 3318 [3MR]

Rural areas: contain health costs, maintain quality, and ensure access to necessary health care services (H.R. 5492), 29636 [7OC]

Small business: National Association for the Self-Employed study on health insurance availability, 2720 [11AU]

Social Security: benefit incentives for individuals and employers who purchase long-term care insurance (H.R. 3900), 941 [3FE]

———complaints about National Committee to Preserve Social Security, 24257 [16SE]

———improvements in the old-age, survivors, disability insurance and SSI programs (H.R. 5335), 28271 [4OC]

———long-term care insurance policies (H.R. 5085), 18453 [14JY]

———prohibiting adjustments in certain individuals' monthly insurance benefits (H.R. 4390), 6814 [14AP]

———reconciliation of discrepant earnings records and restrictions against reduction of benefits (H.R. 4018), 2553 [25FE]

———survivor insurance for children, 16627 [6JY]

State Grain Fund Protection Act: enact (H.R. 4329), 5983 [31MR]

States: Federal preemption of tort laws, 2415 [23FE]

Taxation: certain nonprofit hospital insurers taxable income (H.R. 4555), 10405 [10MY]

———health insurance costs for self-employed individuals (H.R. 5169), 20633 [4AU]

———long-term insurance (H.R. 4631), 11410 [18MY]

———retain limited deduction of health insurance costs of self-employed individuals (H.R. 4852), 15249 [20JN]

———tax incentives to encourage the use of long-term health care insurance (H.R. 4510), 9801 [3MY]

———treatment of long-term care insurance (H.R. 5145), 20336 [3AU]

Veterans: extend medical benefits for certain former spouses (H.R. 3967), 3571 [9MR]

———GI life insurance, 9703 [3MY]

Remarks in Senate

Aged: long-term health care, 2907 [2MR]

Agriculture: exclude certain cash wages paid to seasonal laborers from coverage under certain insurance programs (S. 2577), 16142 [28JN]

Banks and banking: deposit insurance limitations (S. 2722), 21617 [10AU]

———expansion of financial services, 608 [2FE]

———Federal deposit insurance programs, 32106 [20OC]

———insurance of the thrift industry, 14081 [10JN], 14211 [13JN], 14376 [14JN], 14552-14564 [15JN], 15752 [23JN], 15913 [24JN], 24731 [22SE], 25221 [23SE], 28672-28677 [6OC], 29698 [11OC]

———reforms, 1714 [18FE]

Barbados: amend treaty provisions waiving of U.S. excise taxes on insurance premiums, 29741 [11OC]

Bermuda: amend treaty provisions waiving of U.S. excise taxes on insurance premiums, 29741 [11OC]

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City, MO: anniversary, 22884 [8SE]

Commission for Improvement of Federal Crop Insurance Program: establish, 29511 [11OC]

———establish (H.R. 5325), 29510 [7OC]

———establish (S. 2830), 25327 [26SE]

Dukakis, Michael S.: views on health insurance, 25224 [23SE]

Fair Deposit Insurance Assessment Act: enact (S. 2303), 8374 [21AP]

Federal employees: health insurance benefits program (H.R. 5102), 31135-31136 [14OC]

———long-term health care insurance (S. 1738), 22885 [8SE], 24853 [22SE]

FEMA: National Flood Insurance Program, 32607 [21OC]

Financial Modernization Act: enact (S. 1886), 5730-5834 [30MR], 6060, 6196 [31MR], 10790 [12MY], 10997-10999 [13MY], 16391 [29JN], 23525 [13SE], 29794 [11OC], 30186 [13OC], 31174 [17OC], 32105 [20OC], 32507 [21OC]

Foreign Aid Insurance Act: enact (S. 2422), 11887, 11889 [20MY]

FSLIC: backing of promissory notes, 20551 [4AU]

———extending moratorium on thrift institutions' voluntarily terminating deposit insurance provided by (S. 2451), 12995 [27MY]

———moratorium on transfer from FDIC (H.R. 3251), 14572 [16JN]

FTC: investigation of certain agriculture insurers, 18740, 18741 [26JY]

General Aviation Accident Liability Standards Act: enact (S. 473), 28345, 28347-28354 [5OC]

Health care: Block Grant Program (S. 1579), 20753 [5AU]

———continuation of coverage (S. 2401), 11170 [16MY]

———coverage for temporary employees, 31135 [14OC]

———improving information availability and efficiency of care, 25985 [28SE]

———lack of coverage for families, 32145 [20OC]

———long-term care, 3488 [4MR]

———special rules for costs of self-employed individuals (S. 2234), 5842 [30MR]

Housing: liability of tenants in public housing, 19887 [2AU]

Indians: ensure proper coverage under Older Americans Act (S. 2801), 24200 [16SE]

Lifecare Long-Term Care Protection Act: enact (S. 2681), 20137, 20146 [3AU]

Long-Term Care Insurance Consumer Protection Act: enact (S. 2636), 18242, 18245 [13JY]

Medicare: eliminate reimbursement differential between hospitals in different areas (S. 2759), 22870 [8SE]

———voluntary certification of supplemental policies (S. 2243), 6146 [31MR]

Medicare Catastrophic Loss Prevention Act: enact (S. 1127), 9015 [27AP]

OPIC: insurance, reinsurance, and financing eligible projects in Poland (S. 2702), 21247-21249 [9AU]

Pittsburgh Life Underwriters Association: anniversary, 8649 [25AP]

Public Health Service Act: assure minimum health benefits for U.S. workers (S. 1265), 7165 [18AP]

———revise program of assistance for health maintenance organizations (H.R. 3235), 22033-22036 [11AU], 29513 [7OC]

Retiree Health Protection and Long-Term Care Insurance Act: enact (S. 1739), 14044 [9JN]

Rural areas: health care, 15400 [21JN]

Social Security: benefits (S. 2305), 8376-8379 [21AP]

———coverage of certain pregnant women and infants (S. 2046), 1109 [4FE]

———improvements in the old-age, survivors, disability insurance and SSI programs (S. 2755), 22465 [7SE]

Taxation: credit for the cost of long-term health care insurance (S. 2212), 5209 [24MR], 14044 [9JN]

———exclude from gross income amounts withdrawn from Individual Retirement plans for payment of long-term care insurance premiums (S. 1832), 14044 [9JN]

———funding of retiree health plans (S. 2784), 23536 [13SE]

———treatment of nonprofit hospital insurers (S. 2543), 15369 [21JN]

Tort Liability Reform Act: enact (S. 554), 5145-5167 [24MR]

VA: payment of interest in settlements and increased discount rates for premiums paid in advance (S. 2464), 13023 [27MY]

Veterans: extend medical benefits for certain former spouses (H.R. 3967), 4317 [17MR]

———extend medical benefits for certain former spouses (H.R. 3967), placed on the calendar, 4076 [16MR]

Workers' Health Insurance Demonstration Act: enact (S. 2027), 659-661 [2FE]

Reports

Federal Asset Disposition Association: GAO, 29647-29649, 29650 [7OC]

Federal Crop Insurance Program (correction), 21372 [9AU]

Federal Crop Insurance—Producer Partnership—Producer Protection: Federal Crop Insurance Corp., 25458-25461 [26SE]

Health Care in Rural America—The Crisis Unfolds: National Rural Health Association and the National Association of Community Health Centers, 15400-15404 [21JN]

Product Liability—The Corporate Response: Nathan Weber, 5158-5163 [24MR]

Reports by conference committees

Block Grant Program (S. 1579), 28528 [5OC]

Health Maintenance Organizations Assistance Program (H.R. 3235), 28530-28533 [5OC]

Reports filed

Federal Employees Health Insurance Benefits Program: Committee on Post Office and Civil Service (H.R. 5102) (H. Rept. 100-917), 23853 [14SE]

Government Payments to Reinsurers Under Federal Government Group Life Insurance: Committee on Government Operations (H. Rept. 100-703), 14741 [15JN]

Health Care Block Grant Program: committee of conference (S. 1579) (H. Rept. 100-1055), 28655 [5OC]

Health Insurance Coverage for Disabled Adopted Children: Committee on Energy and Commerce (S. Con. Res. 95) (H. Rept. 100-774), 18086 [13JY]

———Committee on Labor and Human Resources (S. Con. Res. 95), 4965 [27AP]

Health Maintenance Organizations Assistance Program (H.R. 3235) (H. Rept. 100-1056), 28655 [5OC]

Insurance of the Thrift Industry: Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs (H.R. 5094) (H. Rept. 100-822), 20521 [4AU]

———Committee on Energy and Commerce (H.R. 5094), 21028 [8AU]

———Committee on Energy and Commerce (H.R. 5094) (H. Rept. 100-822), 25827 [27SE]

———Committee on the Judiciary (House) (H.R. 5094) (H. Rept. 100-822), 25827 [27SE]

Medicare Health Maintenance Organizations: Committee on Government Operations (H. Rept. 100-568), 6821 [14AP]

Public Health Service Act Amendment: Committee on Labor and Human Resources (H.R. 3235) (S. Rept. 100-304), 4697 [22MR]

Repeal Federal Tort Liability Law Relative to Government Contractors: Committee on the Judiciary (S. 612) (S. Rept. 100-386), 15123 [17JN]

Review Claims for VA Benefits: Committee on Veterans' Affairs (H.R. 5288) (H. Rept. 100-963), 25169 [23SE]

Resolutions by organizations

Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act: National Association of Insurance Commissioners, 33557 [21OC]

Statements

Elderly Americans Economic Security Act: Representative Bilirakis, 8434 [21AP]

Financial Modernization Act: Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, 5784 [30MR]

———Senators Dixon, Sanford, and Garn, 5779-5781 [30MR]

Retiree Benefit Protection Act: John Burry, Jr., 11933 [24MY]

Summaries

Depository Institution Regulatory Modernization Act (H.R. 3970), 1696 [18FE]

Employee Benefit Standards in Government Contracting Act (H.R. 5349), 25266 [23SE]

Employee Health Benefit Improvement Act (H.R. 4951), 16521 [29JN]

End Stage Renal Disease Patient Protection and Quality Assurance Act (H.R. 5515), 30169-30171 [12OC]

Ethics in Patient Referrals Act (H.R. 5198), 2725 [11AU]

Federal Crop Insurance Commission Act (H.R. 5325), 24354 [16SE]

Long-Term Care Insurance for Federal Workers Act (H.R. 5167), 21121 [8AU]

OPIC Insurance, Reinsurance, and Financing Eligible Projects in Poland (S. 2702), 21248 [9AU]

Protection of Medicare Patients Against Inappropriate Transfer From Participating Hospitals (H.R. 5468), 28668 [5OC]

Twin Cities Neighborhood Housing Services, Inc.—An Overview, 13943 [9JN]

Tables

AFDC and survivors insurance benefits payments (sundry), 438 [28JA]

Annual cost to business (hidden tax), 25663 [27SE]

Drought relief options (sundry), 19296-19300 [28JY]

Testimonies

Elderly Americans Economic Security Act: Representative Bilirakis, 8434 [21AP]

Long-Term Health Care: Representative Gilman, 20626 [4AU]

———Representative Stark, 20625 [4AU]

Need for Mandated Health Insurance and Other Reforms in National Health Care System: E. Richard Brown, 26841 [29SE]

Texts of

H.R. 3235, revise program of assistance to health maintenance organizations, 22032 [11AU]

H.R. 3913, medicaid hospice coverage, 995 [4FE]

H.R. 3967, extend medical benefits for certain former spouses of veterans, 3572 [9MR]

H.R. 4855, require commercial lessors to provide certain information to customers concerning collision damage waivers, 15026 [16JN]

H.R. 5085. tax treatment of long-term health care insurance benefits, 18482 [14JY]

H.R. 5102, health insurance benefits program for Federal employees, 24295-24298 [16SE], 31830 [19OC]

H.R. 5325, establish commission to review Federal Crop Insurance Program and make recommendations for improvement, 24354 [16SE], 25456 [26SE]

H.R. 5492, National Rural Health Care Act, 29640-29647 [7OC]

S. 1886, Financial Modernization Act, 5810-6062 [31MR]

S. 2027, Workers' Health Insurance Demonstration Act, 661 [2FE]

S. 2046, Social Security Act coverage of certain pregnant women and infants, 1110 [4FE]

S. 2212, tax credit for the cost of long-term health care insurance, 5209 [24MR]

S. 2234, special rules for health insurance costs of self-employed individuals, 5843 [30MR]

S. 2243, voluntary certification of supplemental policies of Medicare, 6147 [31MR]

S. 2422, Foreign Aid Insurance Act, 11888 [20MY]

S. 2464, payment of interest in veterans' settlements and increased discount rates for premiums paid in advance, 13023 [27MY]

S. 2577, exclude certain cash wages paid to seasonal agricultural laborers from coverage under certain insurance programs, 16143 [28JN]

S. 2636, Long-Term Care Insurance Consumer Protection Act, 18242-18245 [13JY]

S. 2681, Lifecare Long-Term Care Protection Act, 20138-20144 [3AU]

S. 2702, OPIC insurance, reinsurance, and financing eligible projects in Poland, 21248 [9AU]

S. 2759, eliminate medicare reimbursement differential between hospitals in different areas, 22871 [8SE]

S. 2784, tax treatment of funding of retiree health plans, 23537 [13SE]

S. Con. Res. 95, health insurance coverage for disabled adopted children, 9433 [28AP], 18881 [26JY]

Transcripts

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