A resolution to urge the President to establish a national commission to study rising health care costs, and to oppose any further cuts in medicare or medicaid which would increase the out-of-pocket costs of medical care for those who can least afford such costs (the elderly, the permanently disabled, and the poor) until such commission has reported its findings to Congress.

Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) the President should establish a bipartisan national commission to study and propose solutions to the problem of rising health care costs; (2) such commission should report to the President within six months; and (3) Congress should not make any further Medicare or Medicaid cuts that will increase medical costs for elderly, disabled, or low-income persons.