SOCIAL SECURITY ACT see also Public Welfare

Addresses

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

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

Amendments

Family Security Act: enact (S. 1511), 14471 [14JN], 14599, 14600 [15JN], 14882, 14886, 14894, 14896, 14910, 14916, 14920, 14927, 14928, 14931-14933, 14988-14992 [16JN]

Analyses

Elderly Out-of-Pocket Health Care Costs: Select Committee on Aging, 33536 [21OC]

Emergency Medical Services Under Statewide Trauma and Emergency Medical Service Plans, 7488 [19AP]

Independent Living Trusts and Contributions Act (H.R. 5391), 25844 [27SE]

Social Security Work Incentives Act (H.R. 4680), 12483 [25MY]

Workfare Provisions of H.R. 1720: Michigan Dept. of Social Services, 27179 [30SE]

Appointments

Conferees: H.R. 1720, AFDC restructuring, 14968 [16JN]

———H.R. 1720, Family Welfare Reform Act, 16779 [7JY]

Articles and editorials

AARP Tax, 16525 [29JN]

And Who's Going To Pay Back All the Money Borrowed from Social Security?, 5292 [25MR]

Bureaucratic Barriers to Medicaid Benefits, 16171 [28JN]

Catastrophic Health Plan Will Be Boon for Elderly, 13310 [2JN]

Congress Should Fix It Right This Time, 26597 [29SE]

Costly Procedures Under Scrutiny, 19564 [28JY]

Costs Killing Rural Hospitals, 18358 [14JY]

Daniel Patrick Moynihan—Making Welfare Work, 26603-26604 [29SE]

Don't Raid the Social Security Nest Egg, 16389 [29JN]

Elderly Lobby Peppers the House on Health Bill, 16521 [29JN]

Facts Needed on New Bill, 4962 [27AP]

For Many, Help Is Near on Health Costs, 13256 [2JN]

Give Welfare Reform a Chance To Break the Cycle of Poverty, 31146 [14OC]

Healthcare Building's Up in Houston, 3979 [15MR]

Heart Bypass Operations Frequently Performed When They're Not Needed, a Study Concludes, 19564 [28JY]

HMO Troubles With Medicare, 2465 [24FE]

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

Is This Any Way To Grow Old?, 17290 [7JY]

Lawmakers Resist Costly ``Correction''—``Notch Baby'' Dilemma a Legacy of Quirk in Social Security Law, 9158 [27AP]

Medicare Change Illegal, Judge Says, 20157 [3AU]

Medicine's Changing Environment—Coping With Medicare, 18534 [14JY]

Messages From a Welfare Mom, 14938 [16JN]

Mothers Discover Welfare Program Brings, 26585 [29SE]

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

New Medicare Rules Snag Local Hospitals, 22870 [8SE]

Public Beliefs on Welfare Challenged, 1392 [16FE]

Real Medicine as Practiced in the ``Boonies'', 28973 [6OC]

Rural Hospital Closure May Harm the Very Old, 22870 [8SE]

SBC Advocate Admits Clinics Fail To Reduce Number of Teen Pregnancies, 19002 [27JY]

Senate Panel Backs Welfare Restructuring—Education, Training for Jobs Stressed, 8368 [21AP]

Senate Panel Clears Welfare Overhaul Despite Threat of White House Veto, 8369 [21AP]

700 Hospital Chiefs Foresee Closing, 15818 [23JN]

Social Security Surpluses Said To Mask Size of Deficit, 6410 [12AP]

Social Security Surplus—Invest It?, 16388 [29JN]

That Bizarre Social Security Surplus, 16390 [29JN], 23039 [8SE]

Tinkering With Welfare? No, It's a Consensus: Senator Cochran, 14935 [16JN]

Trust Funds Update—Congress Moves To Protect, 16389 [29JN]

Using Medical Markets To Stimulate the Rural Economy, 3021 [2MR]

Weld's Child-Support Collections Increase, 26585 [29SE]

Welfare Reform Cuts Weld Costs, 26584 [29SE]

Work or Welfare?, 14056 [9JN]

Bills and resolutions

Adoption: treatment of adopted children of beneficiaries (see S. 2797)

AFDC: detecting fraudulent applications (see H.R. 4898)

———Federal payment of administrative costs to States relative to State or local taxation of social security benefits (see H.R. 4195)

———improve child custody and child support orders (see H.R. 5364)

———improve quality control standards (see S. 2522)

———improving programs for the homeless (see H.R. 4237)

———restructure, (H.R. 1720), correct enrollment (see S. Con. Res. 148)

———restructure (H.R. 1720), correcting enrollment (see S. Con. Res. 154)

Aged: eliminate earnings test for retirement (see S. 27866; H.R. 4104)

———health care (see H.R. 4455)

Aliens: prohibit payment of benefits to persons in illegal status (see S. 2275)

Armed Forces: benefits to handicapped nonresident children if parents are serving overseas (see H.R. 5578)

Benefits: coverage for screening mammography (see H.R. 5479)

———improved computation formula (see H.R. 5159)

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

———payment for month of recipient's death (see S. 2287)

———phase out earnings test (see H.R. 3934)

———posteligibility of certain beneficiaries (see H.R. 4247)

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

———remove limitations on outside income (see H.R. 4096, 4412)

———study impact of computation rule application to workers attaining age 65 in or after 1982 (see H.R. 4057)

Bipartisan Commission to Review Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act: establish (see H.R. 5426)

Blind: promote rehabilitation of beneficiaries (see H.R. 4273)

BLS: examine inflation relative to spending by beneficiaries (see S. 2832)

Budget: calculating maximum deficit amounts and studies relative to retirement taxes (see H.R. 5227)

———exclude receipts and disbursements of the trust funds (see S. 2913; H.R. 5002)

———exclude transactions of the trust funds from the computation of the deficit (see S. 2211; H.R. 5341)

Consumer Price Index: calculation for beneficiaries (see H.R. 5458)

Dept. of HHS: personal earnings and benefit statements (see S. 2684)

Employment tax: entitlement programs for treatment of drug and alcohol addiction by raising level of certain income (see H.R. 5545)

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

Families: parental income relative to severely disabled children (see H.R. 3953)

Foster care: improved services for teenagers (see S. 2461)

Guardianship Rights and Responsibility Act: enact (see H.R. 5275)

Handicapped: payment for low-vision aids (see H.R. 5377)

Health care: caps on physicians' fees and hospital reimbursement differentials (see H.R. 5248)

———clinical diagnostic laboratory tests under medicare and medicaid (see H.R. 4928)

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

———coverage of psychologists under part B of medicare (see H.R. 4297)

———criteria for determining benefit eligibility for individuals with the acquired immune deficiency syndrome virus (see S. 2592; H.R. 4949)

———emergency medical services under statewide trauma and emergency medical service plans (see H.R. 4414)

———exclude from medicare and State health programs physicians who violated regulations governing investigation of new drugs (see H.R. 5530)

———floor for certain matching Federal funds (see S. 2425)

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

———insurance coverage of certain vision, hearing, and dental services (see H.R. 3901)

———long-term care benefits (see H.R. 4763)

———payment for inpatient discharges based upon diagnosis-related group determined at time of admission (see H.R. 5529)

Hospice: coverage (see H.R. 3913)

Insurance: long-term care policies (see H.R. 5085)

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

Investments: trust funds in loans for education and public works projects (see S. 2520)

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

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

Medicaid: care for low-income individuals (see H.R. 5320)

———coverage and payment for inpatient hospital services (see H.R. 5267)

———coverage of services of nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialists, certified registered nurse anesthetists, and nurse-midwives (see H.R. 5475)

———enrollment improvement for pregnant women and children (see S. 2782)

———hospice coverage (see H.R. 3913)

———improve the provision and quality of services to mentally retarded individuals (see H.R. 5233)

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

———posteligibility income of certain beneficiaries (see H.R. 4247)

———regulations relative to the use of tax-exempt bonds for construction of care facilities and acceptance of medicaid patients (see H.R. 5215)

———require hospitals to implement no-smoking policies to remain eligible for program (see H.R. 5394)

———require participating nursing facilities to pay personnel equal to the mean rate paid nursing personnel employed at other facilities (see H.R. 5517)

———services to pregnant women and infants (see H.R. 4072)

Medicare: applying area hospital wage index in certain New England areas (see H.R. 5216)

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

———benefits (see S. 2305)

———charging beneficiaries without regard to the fee freeze if patient chooses to pay physician from private sources (see S. 2181)

———coverage for all clinical diagnostic laboratory services (see H.R. 5253)

———coverage for procedures relative to atrophic and weakened jaws (see S. 2924)

———coverage for social worker services furnished at rural health clinics (see S. 2163; H.R. 5234)

———coverage of services of nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialists, certified registered nurse anesthetists, and nurse-midwives (see H.R. 5475)

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

———eliminate premium increases under certain conditions (see H.R. 3849)

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

———eliminate urban-rural distinctions in making payments and determining fees and rates (see H.R. 5440)

———foot care (see H.R. 5131)

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

———increasing authorization for the patient outcome assessment research program (see S. 2182)

———limit application of benefits and premiums (see H.R. 5398)

———long-term care (see S. 2671; H.R. 5320, 5236, 5393)

———payment for capital-related costs for inpatient hospital services (see H.R. 5257)

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

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

———rates (see H.R. 3945)

———reductions in payments to hospitals (see H. Con. Res. 380)

———reductions in program (see S.J. Res. 387)

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

———require hospitals to implement no-smoking policies to remain eligible for program (see H.R. 5394)

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

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

Medicare Ambulance Service Improvement Act: enact (see S. 2902)

Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act: delay effective dates (see H.R. 5426)

———delay implementation and provide for study of coverage and funding (see S. 2870)

———permit individuals to elect not to pay premiums or receive benefits (see H.R. 5418)

———repeal (see H.R. 5463)

Medicare Catastrophic Protection Act: waiving certain points of order against H.R. 2470, conference report (see H. Res. 463)

Medicare Graduate Nurse Training Act: enact (see S. 2572)

Mental Health and Aging Act: enact (see H.R. 4860)

National Economic Commission: preservation of Social Security benefits (see S. Res. 478)

———support open meetings, no increase in taxes, and preserve Social Security benefits (see S. Res. 477)

Older Women's Cancer Prevention Act: enact (see S. 2921)

Pensions: limit on outside income (see H.R. 4892)

———State taxation of non-residents (see S. 2820)

Psychologists: define as licensed health professionals (see S. 2192)

———role at outpatient rehabilitation facility (see S. 2193)

Public welfare: medical needs of certain recipients (see H.R. 4033)

Quality in Medical Testing Act: enact (see S. 2473)

Railroads: limit increases in medicare premiums to cost-of-living increases in annuity (see H.R. 4885)

Retirement Check Delivery Assurance Act: enact (see S. 2277)

Rural areas: appropriations for Office of Rural Health Policy and establish National Advisory Commission on Rural Health (see S. 2805)

———contain health costs, maintain quality, and ensure access to necessary health care services (see H.R. 5492)

———payment to certain hospitals on reasonable cost basis (see H.R. 5259)

Rural Health Payment Reform Act: enact (see S. 2644)

Rural Long-Term Care Demonstration Act: enact (see S. 2255)

Sec. of HHS: providing annual personal earnings and benefit statements to those workers covered (see S. 2441)

Smoking: require hospitals to implement no-smoking policies to remain eligible for medicare and medicaid programs (see H.R. 5394)

Social Security Sanctity Act: enact (see S. 2914)

Social Security Work Incentives Act: enact (see S. 2517)

SSI: benefits (see H.R. 4979)

———coupons for farmers market (see S. 2043)

———eligibility for certain benefits (see H.R. 4944)

———eligibility requirements relative to certain handicapped children (see S. 2094)

———family housing benefits (see H.R. 5149)

———receipt of certain contributions relative to eligibility for benefits (see H.R. 5391)

Taxation: benefits (see H.R. 4635)

———deduction for those who care for medicare eligible, chronically ill family member (see H.R. 4929)

Title V Infant Mortality Reduction Act: enact (see S. 2792)

World War II: deny benefits to certain individuals deported for association with the Nazi government of Germany (see H.R. 4905)

Communications from

Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance Trust Funds: report, 10017 (EC3586) [9MY], 11497 (EC3268) [18MY]

Descriptions

Medicaid regulations on the use of tax-exempt bonds for construction of care facilities and acceptance of medicaid patients (H.R. 5215), 22391 [11AU]

Mental Health and Aging Act (H.R. 4860), 25033 [22SE]

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

Documents

Medicare Catastrophic Care Coverage, 25607 [26SE]

Veterans Benefits for Dependents of Drug Traffickers (Cranston/DeConcini amendment to H.R. 5210), 30708 [14OC]

Factsheets

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

Letters

Benefits inequity: Representative de la Garza, 18538 [14JY]

Family Security Act: Otis R. Bowen, Sec. of HHS, Ann D. McLaughlin, Sec. of Labor, Richard E. Lyng, Sec. of Agriculture, and James C. Miller III, OMB, 8678 [26AP]

———Thomas Kean, Governor of New Jersey, 14879 [16JN]

Family Welfare Reform Act: American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, 26801 [29SE], 27178 [30SE]

———Child Welfare League of America, Inc., 27177 [30SE]

———Children's Defense Fund, 26801 [29SE], 27177, 27193 [30SE]

———Coalition on Human Needs, 27177, 27193 [30SE]

———Communications Workers of America, 27178, 27194 [30SE]

———National Governors' Association, 26578 [29SE]

———several organizations, 26606 [29SE]

———Stephen B. Heintz, 26578 [29SE]

Federal funding of abortion: Douglas Johnson, 23321 [9SE]

Long-term health care: American Association of Retired Persons, 19645 [29JY]

———National Association for Home Care, 19646 [29JY]

———National Association of State Units on Aging, 19646 [29JY]

———National Council of Senior Citizens, 19645 [29JY]

———National Council on the Aging, Inc., 19646 [29JY]

———Villers Advocacy Associates, 19645 [29JY]

Medicare: Peter A. Ward, 18534 [14JY]

Medicare Catastrophic Protection Act: Norman B. Ture, Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation, 13719 [8JN]

Lists

Groups endorsing S. 2517, Social Security Work Incentives Act, 14584 [15JN]

Organizations opposed to the welfare reform conference agreement on H.R. 1720, 27177, 27192 [30SE]

Memorials of legislature

Alabama, 6343 [11AP]

Alaska, 8372 [21AP]

California, 29796 [11OC]

Louisiana, 19555 [28JY], 19757 [1AU]

Massachusetts, 461 [1FE], 759 [3FE], 1921 [22FE]

Pennsylvania, 8568 [25AP], 9524 [29AP], 18238 [13JY]

Messages

Agreement With the Netherlands on Social Security: President Reagan, 7644 [20AP]

Motions

AFDC: restructure (H.R. 1720), instructing conferees, 16772 [7JY], 24272 [16SE]

Newsletters

Elderly's private home and medicare costs, 20298 [3AU]

Petitions

AFDC funding needs: Westchester County, NY, Board of Legislators, 759 [3FE]

Medicare: Monmouth, NJ, Board of Chosen Freeholders, 3162 [3MR]

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

Polls of opinion

California: 23d District, 25060 [22SE]

Remarks in House

Abortion: Federal funding, 23319-23327 [9SE]

———prohibit medicaid reimbursement, 14766, 14769 [15JN]

AFDC: restructure (H.R. 1720), 14056 [9JN], 18071-18074 [13JY], 26423 [28SE], 26800-26803 [29SE], 27290, 27308 [30SE], 28250 [4OC]

———restructure (H.R. 1720), conference report, 27173 [30SE], 27195, 27196 [30SE], 29868 [11OC], 33560 [10NO]

———restructure (H.R. 1720), conference requested, 16772 [7JY]

———restructure (H.R. 1720), motion to instruct conferees, 16772-16779 [7JY], 24272 [16SE]

———restructure (H.R. 1720), permission to file, 26423 [28SE]

———restructure (H.R. 1720), technical corrections (S. Con. Res. 148), 27196 [30SE]

———restructure (H.R. 1720), technical corrections (S. Con. Res. 154), 29122-29126 [6OC]

Aged: health care (H.R. 4455), 8869 [26AP]

———long-term health care, 291 [27JA]

———rising health care costs, 33454, 33536 [21OC]

Benefits: computation formula (H.R. 1721), 2473 [24FE]

———computation rule application to workers attaining age 65 in or after 1982, 7519 [19AP], 8421 [21AP], 9158 [27AP], 13658 [7JN], 22928 [8SE]

———protection of trust funds, 32391 [20OC]

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

———workers born after 1916 but before 1930 (H.R. 3788), 18538 [14JY]

Bipartisan Commission to Review Medicare Catastrophic Coverage: establish (H.R. 5426), 27333 [30SE]

Budget: calculating maximum deficit amounts and studies relative to retirement taxes (H.R. 5227), 22357 [11AU]

———exclude transactions of the social security trust funds from the computation of the deficit (H.R. 5341), 25073 [23SE], 29122 [6OC]

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

———surplus, 23039 [8SE]

Children: survivor insurance, 16627 [6JY]

Benefits: catastrophic illness care, 26682 [29SE]

———coverage of screening mammography (H.R. 5479), 29604 [7OC]

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

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

———remove limitations on outside income (H.R. 4412), 7530 [19AP]

Employment tax: entitlement programs for treatment of drug and alcohol addiction by raising level of certain income (H.R. 5545), 31962 [19OC]

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

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

Families: parental income relative to severely disabled children (H.R. 3953), 1603 [17FE], 20202 [3AU]

Family Security Act: enact (S. 1511), 18071-18074 [13JY]

Guardianship Rights and Responsibility Act: enact (H.R. 5275), 23416 [9SE]

Health care: clinical diagnostic laboratory tests under medicare and medicaid (H.R. 4928), 16299, 16302 [28JN]

———credit for amounts contributed to health care savings accounts (H.R. 955), 10490 [11MY]

———criteria for determining benefit eligibility for individuals with the acquired immune deficiency syndrome virus (H.R. 4949), 16412 [29JN]

———emergency medical services under statewide trauma and emergency medical service plans (H.R. 4414), 7488 [19AP]

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

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

———long-term care, 31793 [19OC]

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

———payment for inpatient discharges based upon diagnosis-related group determined at time of admission (H.R. 5529), 33523 [21OC]

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

Health maintenance organizations: solvency, 2465 [24FE]

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

Income: posteligibility of certain beneficiaries (H.R. 4247), 5099 [23MR]

Liver transplants: coverage, 14780 [16JN]

Massachusetts: Dukakis administration policy toward elderly, 20297 [3AU]

Medicaid: care for low-income individuals (H.R. 5320), 24346 [16SE], 24716 [20SE]

———coverage and payment for inpatient hospital services (H.R. 5267), 23038 [8SE]

———coverage of services of nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialists, certified registered nurse anesthetists, and nurse-midwives (H.R. 5475), 29597 [7OC]

———funding of abortion, 23061 [8SE]

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

———impact of Reagan administration policies, 29616 [7OC]

———improve the provision and quality of services to mentally retarded individuals (H.R. 5233), 25026 [22SE]

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

———posteligibility income of certain beneficiaries (H.R. 4247), 5099 [23MR]

———regulations relative to the use of tax-exempt bonds for construction of care facilities and acceptance of medicaid patients (H.R. 5215), 22057 [11AU], 22391 [11AU]

———require hospitals to implement no-smoking policies to remain eligible for program (H.R. 5394), 25840, 25842 [27SE]

———require participating nursing facilities to pay personnel equal to the mean rate paid nursing personnel employed at other facilities (H.R. 5517), 30609 [13OC]

———services to pregnant women and infants (H.R. 4072), 5667 [29MR]

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

———catastrophic care coverage, 25607 [26SE]

———coverage for mammography, 13263 [3JN]

———coverage of services of nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialists, certified registered nurse anesthetists, and nurse-midwives (H.R. 5475), 29597 [7OC]

———eliminate urban-rural distinctions in making payments and determining fees and rates (H.R. 5440), 27346 [30SE]

———ensure physicians' hearing and judicial review rights before exclusion (H.R. 1445), 22405 [11AU]

———foot care, 20011 [2AU]

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

———impact of Reagan administration policies, 29616 [7OC]

———initiate savings in reimbursement for capital expenditures, 3979 [15MR]

———long-term benefits (H.R. 4763), 13869 [8JN]

———long-term benefits (H.R. 5236), 22365 [11AU]

———long-term benefits (H.R. 5320), 24346 [16SE], 24716 [20SE]

———long-term benefits (H.R. 5393), 25809 [27SE]

———long-term home health care, 13794, 13795, 13796-13799, 13807 [8JN], 13830, 13831 [9JN], 13832 [14JN], 13833-13846 [8JN], 14055 [9JN], 14508 [14JN], 14763 [15JN], 15030 [16JN], 15477, 15487 [21JN], 16521 [29JN], 17290 [7JY], 20626 [4AU]

———mental health benefit, 5928 [30MR]

———payment for capital-related costs for inpatient hospital services (H.R. 5257), 22727-22729 [7SE]

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

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

———rates (H.R. 3945), 1405 [16FE], 1462 [16FE]

———reform physician reimbursement, 33434 [21OC]

———require hospitals to implement no-smoking policies to remain eligible for program (H.R. 5394), 25840, 25842 [27SE]

Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act: delay effective dates (H.R. 5426), 27333 [30SE]

———permit individuals to elect not to pay premiums or receive benefits (H.R. 5418), 26828 [29SE]

———repeal (H.R. 5463), 28498 [5OC]

Medicare Catastrophic Protection Act: enact (H.R. 2470), 3980 [15MR], 19470 [28JY], 25071 [23SE], 29981 [12OC]

———enact (H.R. 2470), conference report, 13103 [1JN], 13226, 13227 [2JN], 13263, 13264, 13265 [3JN], 13266-13270 [2JN], 13310, 13320 [2JN], 13394 [3JN], 13832 [14JN], 13833 [10JN], 14055 [9JN], 14763 [15JN], 15015 [16JN], 16525 [29JN]

———enact (H.R. 2470), conference report—waiving certain points of order against, 13227-13230 [2JN]

Mental health: rectify medicare/medicaid deficiencies, 6235 [31MR]

Mental Health and Aging Act: enact (H.R. 4860), 15298 [20JN], 25033 [22SE]

Minnesota: health care programs for low-income family children, 18515 [14JY]

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

Older Americans Act: technical corrections (H.R. 3436), 15477, 15487 [21JN]

———technical corrections (H.R. 3436), consideration (H. Res. 466), 13830 [9JN], 13873 [8JN]

Pensions: taxation on defined benefit plan reversions, 23407 [9SE]

Poverty: health care, 29131 [6OC]

Public welfare: benefits, 25057 [22SE]

———medical needs of certain recipients (H.R. 4033), 2555 [25FE]

Railroads: limit increases in medicare premiums to cost of living increases in annuity (H.R. 4885), 15488 [21JN]

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

Smoking: require hospitals to implement no-smoking policies to remain eligible for medicare and medicaid programs (H.R. 5394), 25840, 25842 [27SE]

Social Security Administration: confusion with private business, 18495 [14JY]

Social Security Work Incentives Act: enact (H.R. 4680), 12483 [25MY], 13206 [1JN]

SSI: benefits (H.R. 4979), 16764 [6JY]

———receipt of certain contributions relative to eligibility for benefits (H.R. 5391), 25844 [27SE]

Surpluses, 20348 [3AU]

Taxation: benefits (H.R. 4635), 11779 [19MY]

———credit for amounts contributed to health care savings accounts (H.R. 955), 10490 [11MY]

World War II: deny benefits to certain individuals deported for association with the Nazi government of Germany (H.R. 4905), 16073 [27JN]

Remarks in Senate

Adoption: treatment of adopted children of beneficiaries (S. 2797), 24199, 24200 [16SE]

Advertising: restrict use of term when not associated with Social Security Administration (S. 1469), 2631 [26FE]

AFDC: improve quality control standards (S. 2522), 14978 [16JN]

———replace with a comprehensive program of mandatory child support and work training (S. 1511), 1768 [18FE]

———restructure (H.R. 1720), 25322 [26SE], 31758 [19OC]

———restructure (H.R. 1720), conference report, 25924 [28SE], 26577-26609 [29SE]

———restructure (H.R. 1720), correcting enrollment (S. Con. Res. 148), 26609 [29SE], 29468 [7OC]

———restructure (H.R. 1720), correcting enrollment (S. Con. Res. 154), 28816 [6OC]

———restructure (H.R. 1720), proceed to consideration, 14948 [16JN]

Aged: long-term health care assistance, 8494 [22AP], 28959 [6OC]

———period of transition and formula relative to workers born in years after 1916 and before 1930 (S. 1830), 6430 [12AP]

———phase out earnings test for those of retirement age (S. 2766), 23143 [9SE]

Aliens: prohibit payment of benefits to persons in illegal status (S. 2275), 6464 [12AP]

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

———payment for month of recipient's death (S. 2287), 6941 [14AP]

BLS: examine inflation relative to spending by beneficiaries (S. 2832), 25328 [26SE]

Budget: exclude surplus from definition of the Federal deficit, 6395-6421 [12AP]

———removal of trust fund (S. 2913), 31552 [18OC]

———remove trust fund surpluses from revenues in calculation of deficit (S. 2211), 5208 [24MR], 16388 [29JN]

———surplus, 7101 [18AP]

Comprehensive Alzheimer's Assistance, Research, and Education Act: enact (H.R. 3130), 4422 [18MR]

———enact (S. 2183), 4062 [16MR]

Dept. of HHS: personal earnings and benefit statements (S. 2684), 20590 [4AU]

Family Security Act: enact (S. 1511), 1768 [18FE], 8366-8368 [21AP], 8677 [26AP], 13486 [6JN], 14119 [10JN], 14226 [13JN], 14395-14412 [14JN], 14870, 14908, 14934-14968 [16JN], 15147 [17JN], 15210, 15226 [20JN]

———enact (S. 1511), unanimous-consent agreement, 14423 [14JN]

Foster care: improved services for teenagers (S. 2461), 13009 [27MY]

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

———criteria for determining benefit eligibility for individuals with the acquired immune deficiency syndrome virus (S. 2592), 16367 [29JN]

———floor for certain matching Federal funds (S. 2425), 12009 [23MY]

———Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund grants (S. 1833), 1389 [16FE]

Income: statistics on personal per capita, 25712 [27SE]

Insurance program: entitlement to benefits, 27356 [3OC]

Investments: trust funds in loans for education and public works projects (S. 2520), 14972 [16JN]

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]

Medicaid: bureaucratic barriers, 16170 [28JN]

———enrollment improvement for pregnant women and children (S. 2782), 23533 [13SE]

———nursing home patients, 5860 [30MR]

———prohibit funding for school clinics providing contraception and abortion assistance, 19000-19004 [27JY]

———reduce infant mortality (S. 2122), 2872 [2MR]

Medicaid Home and Community Quality Services Act: enact (S. 1673), 1572 [17FE], 21661 [10AU]

Medicare: adult day health care (S. 1839), 10167 [9MY]

———benefits, 25233 [23SE]

———benefits (S. 2305), 8376-8379 [21AP]

———catastrophic illness coverage, 24405 [19SE]

———charging beneficiaries without regard to the fee freeze if patient chooses to pay physician from private sources (S. 2181), 4061 [16MR]

———coverage for procedures relative to atrophic and weakened jaws (S. 2924), 32556 [21OC]

———coverage for psychologist services (S. 123), 30440 [13OC]

———coverage for social worker services furnished at rural health clinics (S. 2163), 3929 [15MR]

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

———home health care, 20157 [3AU]

———long-term care assistance programs for States (S. 2671), 19644 [29JY]

———payment of nurses assisting in surgery, 29292, 29293 [7OC]

———reduction in payments for certain staff-assisted home dialysis, 29417 [7OC]

———reductions in benefits, 2684 [29FE]

———reductions in program (S.J. Res. 387), 25932 [28SE]

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

Medicare Ambulance Service Improvement Act: enact (S. 2902), 30897 [14OC]

Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act: delay implementation and provide for study of coverage and funding (S. 2870), 28875 [6OC]

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

Medicare Catastrophic Protection Act: enact (H.R. 2470), 611 [2FE]

———enact (H.R. 2470), conference report, 13554-13567 [7JN], 13718-13746 [8JN], 14149 [10JN], 15830, 15831, 15836 [23JN]

———enact (H.R. 2470), conference report—unanimous-consent agreement, 13527 [7JN]

Medicare Graduate Nurse Training Act: enact (S. 2572), 16051 [27JN]

National Economic Commission: preservation of benefits (S. Res. 478), 24833 [22SE]

———support open meetings, no increase in taxes, and preserve Social Security benefits (S. Res. 477), 24833 [22SE]

Older Women's Cancer Prevention Act: enact (S. 2921), 32125 [20OC]

Pensions: State taxation of non-residents (S. 2820), 24820 [22SE]

Psychologists: define as licensed health professionals (S. 2192), 4437 [18MR]

———role at outpatient rehabilitation facility (S. 2193), 4437 [18MR]

Public welfare: reform, 438-439 [28JA], 1392 [16FE], 5254 [25MR]

Quality in Medical Testing Act: enact (S. 2473), 13585, 13586 [7JN]

Retirement Check Delivery Assurance Act: enact (S. 2277), 6585 [13AP]

Rural areas: appropriations for Office of Rural Health Policy and establish National Advisory Commission on Rural Health (S. 2805), 24201-24203 [16SE]

———closing of hospitals, 15817 [23JN], 27997 [4OC]

———health care, 28972 [6OC]

Rural Health Payment Reform Act: enact (S. 2644), 18355-18359 [14JY], 21974 [11AU]

Rural Long-Term Care Demonstration Act: enact (S. 2255), 6162, 6164 [31MR]

Social Security Sanctity Act: enact (S. 2914), 31727 [19OC]

Social Security Work Incentives Act: enact (S. 2517), 14584 [15JN]

SSI: coupons for farmers market (S. 2043), 1106 [4FE]

———eligibility requirements relative to certain handicapped children (S. 2094), 2342 [23FE]

Sullivan, MO: designation as part of St. Louis, MO, metropolitan statistical area, 15542 [22JN]

Taxation: treatment of certain family services providers, 29768 [11OC]

Title V Infant Mortality Reduction Act: enact (S. 2792), 23952 [15SE]

Trust fund: surplus, 5291-5293 [25MR]

Reports

Assault on Medicare and Medicaid in the Eighties: Committee on Aging, 29617-29621 [7OC]

Elderly Out-of-Pocket Health Care Costs: Select Committee on Aging, 33536 [21OC]

Mental Health and Aging—The Need for an Expanded Federal Response: Committee on Aging (House, Select), 6235-6238 [31MR]

Reports by conference committees

Medicare Catastrophic Protection Act (H.R. 2470), 13103-13184 [1JN]

Reports filed

AFDC Restructuring (H.R. 1720) (H. Rept. 100-998), 26502 [28SE]

———Committee on Finance (H.R. 1720), 13583 [7JN]

ERISA and Tax Code Amendments To Improve Retirement Income System: Committee on Education and Labor (H.R. 1961) (H. Rept. 100-676), 13517 [7JN]

Family Security Act: Committee on Finance (S. 1511) (S. Rept. 100-377), 12982 [27MY]

Family Welfare Reform Act (H.R. 1720), Waiving Certain Points of Order Against Conference Report: Committee on Rules (H. Res. 556) (H. Rept. 100-1003), 26817 [29SE]

Improve Retirement Income System: Committee on Education and Labor (H.R. 1961) (H. Rept. 100-676), 13517 [7JN]

Medicare Catastrophic Protection Act (H.R. 2470), Consideration: Committee on Rules (H. Res. 463) (H. Rept. 100-663), 13099, 13184 [1JN]

———committee of conference (H.R. 2470) (H. Rept. 100-661), 13184 [1JN]

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

San Juan County Nursing Home, UT, Relief: Committee on Labor and Human Resources (S. 1828), 4965 [27AP]

Social Security Administration's Computer Modernization Efforts: Committee on Government Operations (H. Rept. 100-1043), 27984 [3OC]

Reports to constituents

Hamilton, Lee H.: Major Domestic Issues Facing the Next Administration and Congress, 23870 [14SE]

Resolutions by organizations

Funding for abortion for victims of rape, incest and child sexual abuse: National Coalition Against Sexual Assault, 14769 [15JN]

Statements

All Urban Index CPI-U for Cost of Living Formula: James T. McIntyre, 29727 [11OC]

Increase in Excise Tax on Defined Benefit Plan Reversing: American Society of Pension Actuaries and the Small Business Council of America, 23407 [9SE]

No Difference in CPI-U and CPI-W Indexes in Cost of Living Formula for Social Security: James C. Miller III, 29727 [11OC]

Older Americans Act Technical Corrections: Representative Rostenkowski, 14763 [15JN]

Welfare Reform: Senator Specter (1986), 14398-14405 [14JN]

Summaries

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]

Family Security Act (S. 1511), 15147 [17JN]

Long-Term Health Benefits (H.R. 4763), 13869-13870 [8JN]

Medicaid Improvement of Services to the Mentally Retarded (H.R. 5233), 25026 [22SE]

Medicaid Infant Mortality Amendments (S. 2122), 2873 [2MR]

Medicare Catastrophic Protection Act (H.R. 2470), Conference Report, 13554-13559 [7JN], 13742 [8JN]

Medicare Infant Mortality Amendments (H.R. 4072), 3035 [2MR]

Medicare Long-Term Benefits (H.R. 4763), 13870 [8JN]

Medicare Long-Term Benefits (H.R. 5393), 25810 [27SE]

Mental Health and Aging Act (H.R. 4860), 15298-15300 [20JN], 25033, 25036 [22SE]

Payment for Capital-Related Costs for Inpatient Hospital Services (H.R. 5257), 22729 [7SE]

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

Public Welfare Medical Needs of Certain Recipients (H.R. 4033), 2556 [25FE]

Quality in Medical Testing Act (S. 2473), 13585 [7JN]

Title V Infant Mortality Reduction Act (S. 2792), 23953 [15SE]

Tables

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

Budget funds and the Federal debt transactions by fund group, 5292 [25MR]

Estimates of additional tax liability under the catastrophic illness conferees agreement for various levels of adjusted gross income, 13725 [8JN]

Estimates of cost of catastrophic illness coverage: CBO, 13719 [8JN]

Federal deficit and Social Security trust funds, 6398, 6402, 6405 [12AP]

Outlays and receipts of Social Security trust funds, 5292 [25MR]

Welfare reform legislation comparison, 26581 [29SE]

Testimonies

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

———Representative Stark, 20625 [4AU]

Social Security Notch Problem: Representative Bilirakis, 8421 [21AP]

———Representative Daub, 6972 [14AP]

———Representative Gilman, 7519 [19AP]

Texts of

H. Res. 463, waiving certain points of order against consideration of H.R. 2470, Medicare Catastrophic Protection Act, 13227 [2JN]

H. Res. 556, consideration of conference report of H.R. 1720, AFDC restructuring, 27173 [30SE]

H.R. 1720, AFDC restructure, 14948-14968 [17JN], 26423-26485 [28SE]

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

H.R. 4860, Mental Health and Aging Act, 15301-15305 [20JN]

H.R. 4979, SSI Improvements Act, 16765-16768 [6JY]

H.R. 5275, Guardianship Rights and Responsibility Act, 23417 [9SE]

H.R. 5475, Nursing Shortage and Nurse Reimbursement Incentive Act, 29597 [7OC]

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

H.R. 5517, require medicaid participating nursing facilities to pay personnel equal to the mean rate paid nursing personnel employed at other facilities, 30609 [13OC]

S. 1511, Family Security Act, 14226 [13JN]

S. 1828, relief for San Juan Count Nursing Home, UT, 9433 [28AP]

S. 2043, SSI coupons for farmers market, 1107 [4FE]

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

S. 2094, SSI eligibility requirements relative to certain handicapped children, 2342 [23FE]

S. 2163, medicare coverage for social worker services furnished at rural health clinics, 3929 [15MR]

S. 2181, charging medicare beneficiaries without regard to the fee freeze if patient chooses to pay physician from private sources, 4061 [16MR]

S. 2183, Comprehensive Alzheimer's Assistance, Research, and Education Act, 4063-4066 [16MR]

S. 2192, define psychologists as licensed health professionals for Social Security purposes, 4437 [18MR]

S. 2193, psychologist role at outpatient rehabilitation facility for Social Security purposes, 4437 [18MR]

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

S. 2255, Rural Long-Term Care Demonstration Act, 6163 [31MR]

S. 2425, establish a floor for certain matching Federal funds, 12009 [23MY]

S. 2461, improved services for foster care of teenagers, 13010 [27MY]

S. 2473, Quality in Medical Testing Act, 13585 [7JN]

S. 2517, Social Security Work Incentives Act, 14584-14586 [15JN]

S. 2592, develop criteria for determining benefit eligibility for individuals with the acquired immune deficiency syndrome virus, 16368 [29JN]

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

S. 2644, Rural Health Payment Reform Act, 18356-18358 [14JY]

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

S. 2684, personal earnings and benefit statements, 20590 [4AU]

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

S. 2766, phase out earnings test for those of retirement age, 23144 [9SE]

S. 2792, Title V Infant Mortality Reduction Act, 23952 [15SE]

S. 2902, Medicare Ambulance Service Improvement Act, 30897 [14OC]

S. 2913, removal of trust fund from budget, 31553 [18OC]

S. 2914, Social Security Sanctity Act, 31727-31732 [19OC]

S. 2921, Older Women's Cancer Prevention Act, 32125 [20OC]

S. 2924, medicare coverage for certain jaw surgery, 32556 [21OC]

S. Con. Res. 148, correct technical errors in enrollment of H.R. 1720, Family Welfare Reform Act, 26609 [29SE], 26615 [29SE], 27197 [30SE]

S. Con. Res. 154, correcting enrollment of H.R. 1720, 28816, 28879 [6OC], 29122-29124 [6OC]

S. Res. 477, support for open meetings, no increase in taxes and preservation of Social Security benefits in meeting of National Economic Commission, 24832 [22SE]