HEALTH COVERAGE AVAILABILITY AND AFFORDABILITY ACT

Amendments

Enact (H.R. 3103), S4151 [25AP], H3112 [28MR]

———consideration (H. Res. 392), H3038 [28MR]

Analyses

ERISA Group Health Plans: Committee on Economics (Joint), H3101-H3105 [28MR]

Appointments

Conferees: H.R. 3103, provisions, H6141 [11JN]

Articles and editorials

Another Chance for Health Care Reform, S6272 [14JN]

Can Medical Savings Accounts for the Nonelderly Reduce Health Care Costs?, S6637 [21JN]

Clean Health Bill—Get Rid of Those Two ``Killer'' Amendments, S6651 [21JN]

Dubious Crusade for Medical Savings Accounts, S6270 [14JN]

Golden Rule Has Keen Interest in Insurance Bill, S6754 [24JN]

Key Test for Dole, S6650 [21JN]

Modest or Revolutionary? The Kennedy-Kassebaum Health Legislation May Be Both, S6759 [24JN]

Mr. Dole's Health-Care Task, S6271 [14JN]

No Cure-All Medical Savings Accounts Present a Flawed Solution, S6271 [14JN]

Pointless Stalemate Halts Health Insurance Reform, S6759 [24JN]

Revive the Health Insurance Debate, S6759 [24JN]

Senator Dole's Final Business, S6272 [14JN]

Stick to Basics in New Health Bill, S6650 [21JN]

Too Much Reform—House Amendments Weigh Down Effort To Make Health Care Insurance Portable, S6651 [21JN]

U.S. Deserves This Health Reform—Congress Should Find a Way To Save Key Legislation, S6271 [14JN]

White House Waffling on Health, S6759 [24JN]

Bills and resolutions

Enact (H.R. 3103): consideration of conference report (see H. Res. 500, 502), H9565 [31JY], H9704 [1AU]

———corrections in enrollment of conference report (see S. Con. Res. 68; H. Con. Res. 208), S9555 [2AU], H9924 [2AU]

Conference reports

Provisions (H.R. 3103), H9473-H9564 [31JY]

Factsheets

Problems With Medical Savings Accounts: Senator Kennedy, S5925 [6JN]

Letters

Medical savings account programs: Dan Reitz, United Mine Workers of America, S3824 [23AP]

———Representatives Jacobs, Lipinski, and Poshard, S3823 [23AP]

———Representatives Torricelli and Jacobs, S3823 [23AP]

———several Senators, S3824 [23AP]

Medicare waste, fraud and abuse: June Gibbs Brown, Dept. of HHS, S9543 [2AU]

Multiple employer welfare arrangements providing health plan benefits: Brian K. Atchinson, National Association of Insurance Commissioners, H3099 [28MR]

———William Pound, National Conference of State Legislatures, H3099 [28MR]

Memorandums

Vermont Health Reform Initiatives: Thomas R. Van Cooper, S6758 [24JN]

Motions

Enact (H.R. 3103), H3138 [28MR], H6133 [11JN]

———conference report, H9795 [1AU]

Remarks in House

Courts: medical malpractice liability claim requirements, H3110 [28MR]

Enact (H.R. 3103), H3045-H3147 [28MR], H3173, H3211 [29MR], H3572 [17AP], H4307, H4308, H4309 [1MY], H6122 [11JN], H6186 [12JN], H6289, H6290 [13JN], H6425, H6427, H6428, H6431, H6432, H6433, H6434, H6435, H6436, H6482, H6484, H6488-H6490 [18JN], H6513, H6514, H6515, H6516, H6517, H6518 [19JN], H6683, H6684-H6688 [20JN], H6715 [25JN], H6850 [26JN], H7133-H7135 [9JY], H7266 [11JY], H7510 [12JY], H7997 [18JY], H8100 [23JY], E500, E502, E508 [29MR], E524 [15AP], E1121, E1124 [20JN], E1161 [25JN], E1211 [27JN], E1235 [10JY], E1282 [12JY]

———conference report, H9567, H9568, H9707, H9708, H9709, H9785-H9796, H9804-H9809, H9832, H9834-H9836 [1AU], H9838, H9839 [2AU], H9992 [4SE], E1485, E1496, E1502 [2AU]

———consideration (H. Res. 392), H3029-H3045 [28MR]

———consideration of conference report (H. Res. 500), H9775, H9776 [1AU]

———consideration of conference report (H. Res. 502), H9776 [1AU]

———corrections in enrollment of conference report (H. Con. Res. 208), H9897, H9898 [2AU]

———motion to instruct conferees, H6132-H6141 [11JN]

ERISA: multiple employer welfare arrangements providing health plan benefits, H3098-H3106, H3111 [28MR]

Health: medical savings account programs, H6133-H6141 [11JN], H6186 [12JN], H6290 [13JN], H6428, H6482, H6484, H6488 [18JN], H6513, H6514, H6515, H6516, H6517, H6518 [19JN], H9777, H9779, H9784 [1AU]

Medicaid: reform, H3107 [28MR]

Medicare: combat waste, fraud, and abuse, H3108, H3131 [28MR]

Mental health: national policy to provide health care coverage to individuals with severe mental illnesses, H9777, H9781, H9783 [1AU]

Taxation: treatment of medical savings accounts, H3035, H3036, H3106, H3107 [28MR]

Remarks in Senate

Drugs: patent protection for arthritis medication Lodine, S9457, S9458, S9463-S9466, S9469, S9499-S9501 [2AU]

Enact (H.R. 3103), S3340 [16AP], S3817-S3833 [23AP], S4150 [25AP], S5707 [4JN], S5904-S5907, S5922-S5926 [6JN], S5977, S5983 [7JN], S5986, S5988-S5990, S6019 [10JN], S6024, S6066-S6069 [11JN], S6115, S6116 [12JN], S6255-S6257, S6260, S6263, S6268-S6272 [14JN], S6634-S6654 [21JN], S6678, S6754-S6760 [24JN], S7071-S7074 [27JN], S7278, S7292, S7336 [28JN], S7682, S7749 [11JY], S7798-S7807 [12JY], S8820 [25JY]

———appointment of conferees, S7756 [11JY]

———conference report, S9292 [31JY], S9386, S9387 [1AU], S9457, S9458, S9463-S9466, S9469, S9477, S9499, S9527, S9530-S9532, S9542, S9636-S9638 [2AU], S10564 [13SE]

———corrections in enrollment of conference report (S. Con. Res. 68), S9500 [2AU]

———insert language of S. 1028 in lieu, S3613 [18AP]

Health: medical savings account programs, S5707 [4JN], S5923-S5925 [6JN], S5977 [7JN], S5986, S5988-S5990 [10JN], S6024, S6066-S6069 [11JN], S6256, S6263 [14JN], S6634-S6654 [21JN], S9531 [2AU]

———tribute to efforts of Members and staff on health care reform legislation, S9527 [2AU]

Medicare: combat waste, fraud and abuse, S9542-S9544 [2AU]

Mental health: national policy to provide health care coverage to individuals with severe mental illnesses, S6115 [12JN], S9292 [31JY], S9386, S9387 [1AU]

Reports filed

Consideration of Conference Report on H.R. 3103, Provisions: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 500) (H. Rept. 104-735), H9565 [31JY]

———Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 502) (H. Rept. 104-738), H9704 [1AU]

Provisions: Committee of Conference (H.R. 3103) (H. Rept. 104-736), H9565 [31JY]

———Committee on Ways and Means (House) (H.R. 3103) (H. Rept. 104-496), H2842 [25MR]

Rulings of the Chair

Enact (H.R. 3103): conference report, S9499 [2AU]

Summaries

Health Care? You Compare, H3091 [28MR]

Texts of

H. Con. Res. 208, corrections in enrollment of conference report on H.R. 3103, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, H9898 [2AU]

H. Res. 392, consideration of H.R. 3103, provisions, H3029 [28MR]

H. Res. 500, consideration of conference report on H.R. 3103, provisions, H9775 [1AU]

H. Res. 502, consideration of conference report on H.R. 3103, provisions, H9776 [1AU]

H.R. 3103, provisions, S3836-S3864 [23AP], H3045-H3083 [28MR]

S. Con. Res. 68, corrections in enrollment of conference report on H.R. 3103, provisions, S9501, S9609 [2AU]

Transcripts

Medical Savings Account Programs: ``Equal Time'', CNBC (cable network), S3824 [23AP]