MEDICARE CATASTROPHIC COVERAGE ACT

Bills and resolutions

Benefits: application (see S. 1149)

———revising (see H.R. 3230)

Effective date: delay (see S. 445; H.R. 63)

Participation: allow certain individuals to refuse benefits and payment of premiums (see H.R. 267, 58, 1809)

Provisions: amend (see H.R. 1359)

———financing of certain benefit improvements (see H.R. 974)

———repeal certain (see H.R. 332, 557, 697, 864, 3253, 3262)

———supplemental premium and added benefits (see H.R. 1174, 1187, 2055)

Review commission: establish (see H.R. 63)

Sense of Congress (see S. Con. Res. 78)

Titles I and II: repeal (see H.R. 3165)

Letters

Provisions: American Association of Retired Persons, 14978 [18JY]

———Boris Raynes and wife, 23226 [4OC]

———Catharine Dorothy, 23226 [4OC]

———George D. Waldron, 10923 [6JN]

———George F. Hennrikus, Jr., 23250 [4OC]

———OMB, 23258 [4OC]

———Representative Frenzel, 23259 [4OC]

———Robert Benedict and wife, 23226 [4OC]

———Senator Heinz, 19045 [4AU]

———Senators Heinz, Pryor, and Wilson, 19045, 19046 [4AU]

———several Members of Congress, 19046 [4AU]

———Wayne F. Lauxman and wife, 23226 [4OC]

Memorials of legislature

California, 12283 [19JN]

Florida, 14017 [10JY], 14572 [13JY]

Illinois, 19782 [7SE], 20052 [12SE]

Louisiana, 14814 [17JY]

Maryland, 9482 [17MY]

Nevada, 14813 [17JY]

Texas, 14075 [11JY], 15621 [20JY]

Petitions

Honolulu, HI, City Council, 20052 [12SE]

Hyattsville, MD, 16204 [25JY]

Older Iowans' Legislature, 28705 [14NO]

Public opinion polls

Medicare catastrophic insurance, 14985 [18JY], 20992 [20SE]

Questions and answers

Catastrophic health care, 5103 [21MR]

Remarks in House

Benefits and financing: revising (H.R. 3230), 19712 [7SE]

Enact (H.R. 2), 23205 [4OC]

———(H.R. 2), motion to instruct conferees, 8106 [3MY]

———(H.R. 2055), 6843 [18AP]

Financing system: reexamine, 3058 [28FE]

Participation: election to not pay premiums or receive certain benefits for tax purposes (H.R. 558), 16765 [27JY]

Provisions: repeal certain (H.R. 3253), 20096 [12SE], 20985-20994 [20SE]

———supplemental premium and additional benefits (H.R. 2770), consideration (H. Res. 191), 14971-14990 [18JY]

Reform, 16350 [26JY]

Repeal (H.R. 332), 126 [3JA]

———(H.R. 557), 273 [19JA]

Titles I and II: repeal (H.R. 3165), 19112, 19113 [4AU], 21188, 21189 [21SE]

Remarks in Senate

Aged: opinion poll, 9941 [18MY]

Benefits: application of benefits and premiums (S. 1149), 11352, 11353 [8JN], 20653 [18SE]

Effective date: delay, 10910, 10930 [6JN], 11077 [7JN], 16615-16623 [27JY]

———delay (S. 445), 2685-2687 [23FE]

Provisions: repeal of certain, 23932 [7OC]

———repeal supplemental premium and modify added benefits (S. 1174), 11702 [14JN]

———repeal supplemental premium and modify added benefits (S. 1187), 11727 [14JN]

Statements

Provisions: Charles Osgood, 23215 [4OC]

———Senator McCain, 10694 [1JN]

———(sundry excerpts), 14972, 14979 [18JY]

Summaries

Delay of Provisions, 10931 [6JN]

McCain Catastrophic Health Care Proposal, 23932 [7OC]

Provisions, 16620 [27JY], 23222 [4OC]

Repeal of titles I and II (H.R. 3165), 19113 [4AU]

Testimonies

Provisions: Robert Ball, 2566 [22FE]

Texts of

S. 859, Drug Utilization Review Act, 19047 [4AU]

S. 1149, provisions, 11353 [8JN]