Expressing the sense of Congress regarding the need for an alternative method of paying for the costs of catastrophic health insurance.

Expresses the sense of the Congress that it should immediately begin to develop a method of paying for catastrophic health insurance costs which more equitably distributes such costs than the method established under the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988.

 
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101st CONGRESS
1st Session
H. CON. RES. 13
Expressing the sense of Congress regarding the need for an alternative method
of paying for the costs of catastrophic health insurance.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 3, 1989
Mr. PACKARD submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred
jointly to the Committees on Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
Expressing the sense of Congress regarding the need for an alternative method
of paying for the costs of catastrophic health insurance.
Whereas the President, Congress, and the Nation are in agreement that
protection is needed against the costs of catastrophic illness for the
elderly and the indigent;
Whereas the method of paying for the costs of catastrophic health insurance
established under the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988 is inequitable
and singles out a portion of elderly citizens for a tax increase;
Whereas this method sets an inappropriate new precedent for Medicare
funding; and
Whereas under this method 40 percent of all senior citizens pay for the
health care of the remaining 60 percent: Now, therefore, be it
  Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That
  it is the sense of Congress that the Senate and House of Representatives
  should immediately begin to work on developing an alternative method of
  paying for the costs of catastrophic health insurance which will distribute
  such costs more equitably than the method established under the Medicare
  Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988.