Amendment104th Congress
3979
- Amendment Number
- 3979
- Purpose
- To restore $50 billion in excessive Medicare cuts designed to pay for new tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans, offset by the extension of expired tax provisions or corporate and business tax reforms; to protect seniors against unjustified increases in premiums and other out-of-pocket costs; to prevent the closing of rural hospitals and other excessive provider cuts that erode access to needed medical services; to prevent the implementation of policies designed to force seniors to give up their own doctors to join private health plans; and to protect Medicare against policies that will cause it to wither on the vine.
- Congress
- 104
- Type
- SAMDT
- Latest Action Date
- May 16, 1996
- Latest Action Text
- Motion to table SP 3979 agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 55-43. Record Vote No: 117.
- Proposed Date
- May 16, 1996
- Submitted Date
- May 16, 1996
- Chamber
- Senate
- Update Date
- Aug 15, 2021