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Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that Medicare beneficiaries should have access to outpatient prescription drug coverage.

Introduced: March 8, 2000 Introduced by: Sessions, Pete Republican · Texas See on congress.gov
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Mar 13, 2000
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.
Mar 10, 2000
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Mar 8, 2000
Referred to the Committee on Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Mar 8, 2000
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that Congress should enact legislation that: (1) ensures that prescription drug coverage replaces the need for seniors to rely exclusively on out-of-pocket expenditures for their medicines; (2) ensures that the Medicare program is not further fiscally compromised and its financial solvency is preserved and protected; (3) ensures that existing sources of drug coverage for Medicare beneficiaries, such as employer-sponsored retiree prescription drug benefits, are not displaced into a government-run program; (4) provides a mechanism to assist low income Medicare beneficiaries to afford coverage; (5) avoids any form of extensive government regulation, including government rationing of life-saving medicines and direct or indirect price controls; and (6) encourages the continued high rate of research and development by the private sector in the United States, and does nothing that creates disincentives for the discovery of new drugs.
What's happening now March 13, 2000

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and Environment.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H. Res. 435: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that Medicare beneficiaries should have access to outpatient prescription drug coverage.. 106th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/106-HRES-435/
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"H. Res. 435: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that Medicare beneficiaries should have access to outpatient prescription drug coverage.." 106th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/106-HRES-435/.
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H. Res. 435, 106th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/106-HRES-435/.
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