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Tax Benefits for Health Insurance: Current Legislation
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Major Provisions of the Medicare Modernization and Prescription Drug Act of 2002, H.R. 4954, as Passed by the House
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Medicaid: Eligibility for the Aged and Disabled
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Medicare: Major Prescription Drug Provisions of Selected Bills
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Medicare: Major Prescription Drug Provisions of Selected Bills
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Patient Protection and Managed Care: Legislation in the 107th Congress
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Military Medical Care Services: Questions and Answers
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Tax Benefits for Health Insurance: Current Legislation
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Medicare: Major Prescription Drug Provisions of Selected Bills
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Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act (P.L. 107-188): Provisions and Changes to Preexisting Law
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Health Insurance Continuation Coverage under COBRA
This report provides information about Health Insurance Continuation Coverage under COBRA. This report also provides background information on COBRA, on the COBRA population, and on legislation offering COBRA. Some believe that COBRA went too far in requiring employees to provide coverage.
Patient Protection and Managed Care: Legislation in the 107th Congress
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Tax Benefits for Health Insurance: Current Legislation
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Flexible Spending Accounts and Medical Savings Accounts: A Comparison
This report is a comparison flexible spending accounts and medical savings accounts.
Military Medical Care Services: Questions and Answers
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President Bush's Proposed Medicare-Endorsed Drug Discount Card Initiative: Status and Issues
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Patient Protection and Managed Care
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Tax Benefits for Health Insurance: Current Legislation
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Military Medical Care Services: Questions and Answers
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Health Insurance Coverage: Characteristics of the Insured and Uninsured Populations in 2001
The number of Americans without health insurance rose in 2001 to 41.2 million Americans - an increase of 1.4 million people from 2000. This reverses a two-year trend of falling numbers of uninsured. This report examines the characteristics of both the insured and the uninsured populations in the United States.
Health Insurance: Uninsured by State, 2001
An estimated 14.6% of the U.S. populations lacked health insurance coverage in 2001, up from 14% in 2000. When examined by state, estimates of the percent uninsured ranged from a low of 7.5% in Iowa to a high of 23.5% in Texas. Generally, states in the Midwest and New England have lower rates of uninsured, while states in the Southwestern and Southern portion of the nation have higher shares of their populations without coverage.
Military Health Care: The Issue of "Promised" Benefits
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Military Medical Care Services: Questions and Answers
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Tax Benefits for Health Insurance: Current Legislation
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Long-Term Care: What Direction for Public Policy?
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Social Security and Medicare Taxes and Premiums: Fact Sheet
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Health Insurance Continuation Coverage under COBRA
This report provides information about Health Insurance Continuation Coverage under COBRA. This report also provides background information on COBRA, on the COBRA population, and on legislation offering COBRA. Some believe that COBRA went too far in requiring employees to provide coverage.
Medicare+Choice Payments
This report discusses the M+C program that established new rules for beneficiary and plan participation. This report focuses on M+C payments.
Medicare Structural Reform: Background and Options
THis report provides a brief overview of major issues underlying the debate about possible structural reforms or improvements to the current Medicare system. Medicare is a nationwide health insurance program for the aged and certain disabled persons.
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and Medicaid
This report begins with an overview of Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). It then discusses the distinction made in IDEA between medical services and health services. The report then summarizes the provisions in law that link Medicaid funding to IDEA. Next the report provides an overview of the complexities of Medicaid eligibility and covered services. Following that discussion, the report analyzes possible reasons why Medicaid appears to cover relatively little of IDEA health-related costs. Finally the report outlines possible legislative approaches with respect to Medicaid and IDEA.
Flexible Spending Accounts and Medical Savings Accounts: A Comparison
This report compares FSAs and MSAs. It begins by describing FSAs, the basis for their tax treatment, and data on their use. It then describes the MSA demonstration authorized by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), the basis for their tax treatment, and data on their use. The report concludes with a brief discussion of current legislation. In general, it discusses particular bills only after they have been considered by committee or on the House or Senate floor.
Military Medical Care Services: Questions and Answers
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Tax Benefits for Health Insurance: Current Legislation
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President Bush's Proposed Medicare-Endorsed Drug Discount Card Initiative: Status and Issues
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Medicare Prescription Drug Proposals: Estimates of Aged Beneficiaries Who Fall Below Income Criteria, by State
This report discusses bills related to Medicare benefits, which include additional assistance for low-income beneficiaries. The assistance would have been in the form of reduced, subsidized or eliminated premiums, deductibles and other cost-sharing. Proposals in the 108th Congress will probably also include some of these features for low-income beneficiaries.
ERISA Regulation of Health Plans: Fact Sheet
The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA, P.L. 93-406) places the regulation of employee benefit plans (including health plans) primarily under federal jurisdiction for about 124 million people. ERISA’s treatment of health plans is both complicated and confusing. ERISA has been interpreted as dividing health plans into two groups regulated differently under the law: about 54 million people are covered by self-insured plans for which the employer, rather than an insurer, assumes the risk for paying for covered services and about 70 million people are covered by purchased insurance (according to 2000 information from the Census Bureau and the Department of Labor).
Military Medical Care Services: Questions and Answers
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Tax Benefits for Health Insurance: Current Legislation
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Tax Subsidies for Expanding Health Insurance Coverage: Selected Policy Issues for the 108th Congress
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Alcohol Beverages: Labeling and Health Claims
This report concerns rules created in 2003 by the Alcohol and Tobacco and Trade Bureau that prohibits manufacturers from advertising substantive health benefits from alcoholic beverages. Moreover, the report covers the history and debate on this issue and of the Bureau.
Military Medical Care Services: Questions and Answers
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Long-Term Care Chart Book: Persons Served, Payors and Spending
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Tax Benefits for Health Insurance: Current Legislation
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An Overview of the U.S. Public Health System in the Context of Bioterrorism
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Military Medical Care Services: Questions and Answers
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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS): Public Health Situation and U.S. Response
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Association Health Plans, Health Marts and the Small Group Market for Health Insurance
An estimated 41.2 million people were without health insurance in 2001. Legislation under consideration by the 108th and earlier Congresses is intended to assist small employers in offering health insurance as a benefit to their workers. A new bill, H.R. 4281, introduced on May 5, 2004, The Small Business Health Fairness Act of 2003 (H.R. 6601s. 545), and a number of bills from the earlier Congresses include provisions creating new groups for small firms to join or encouraging the growth of existing groups so that small employers can band together to offer coverage to their employees.
Medicare: Beneficiary Cost-Sharing Under Proposed Prescription Drug Benefits
This report examines these proposals as well as the “Medicare Rx Drug Benefit and Discount Act of 2003,” which was introduced by Representative Charles Rangel, the ranking member of the House Ways and Means Committee. Specifically, this report provides background on how the cost-sharing and premium provisions under each bill would affect the amount that a beneficiary pays annually for prescription drugs.
Medicare Prescription Drug and Reform Legislation
This report describes the major features of S. 1, as ordered reported, and the measure to be considered by the House Ways and Means Committee, H.R. 2473, as ordered reported.
Tax Benefits for Health Insurance: Current Legislation
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