HR 1277
110th Congress
House
Health
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Drugs
Governmental investigations
Legislation
Prescription pricing
Social Welfare
Medicare Prescription Drug Benefits Gap Elimination Act of 2007
Introduced: March 1, 2007
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Everywhere this bill has been
4 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 7, 2007
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Mar 5, 2007
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Mar 1, 2007
Referred to the Committee on Energy and 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 1, 2007
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Medicare Prescription Drug Benefits Gap Elimination Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to study and report to Congress on how to eliminate the gap in benefits for covered part D drugs under the Medicare prescription drug program under Medicare part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII of the Social Security Act after a part D eligible individual's costs exceed the initial coverage limit, and before the individual obtains protection against high out-of-pocket expenditures.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Committees of jurisdiction
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