Preserving Medicare for All Act of 2007

A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide additional beneficiary protections.

1/4/2007--Introduced.
Preserving Medicare for All Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to repeal the prohibition against interference by the Secretary of Health and Human Services with the negotiations between drug manufacturers and pharmacies and prescription drug plan sponsors. Grants the Secretary authority to negotiate contracts with manufacturers of covered part D drugs in order to ensure that beneficiaries enrolled under prescription drug plans and Medicare Advantage Prescription Drug Plans (MA-PD plans) pay the lowest possible price. Allows the Medicare part D eligible individual an alternative to the current choice of coverage in at least two qualifying plans in the area in which the individual resides. Allows such an individual to choose enrollment in a nationwide prescription drug plan offered by the Secretary (to replace enrollment in a fallback prescription drug plan in any case in which such plans are not available). Directs the Secretary, through the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, to:
(1) take necessary steps to qualify and serve as a prescription drug plan sponsor; and
(2) offer a prescription drug plan that offers basic prescription drug coverage throughout the United States, with a $35 premium for 2008, adjusted annually thereafter. Requires such a plan to be in addition to, and not in lieu of, other prescription drug plans offered.
Provides for full reimbursement to employers for the cost of qualified retiree drug coverage, and permits their costs to count towards senior's catastrophic limits.
Abolishes the comparative cost adjustment program.
Eliminates the MA Regional Plan Stabilization Fund.
Repeals certain cost containment requirements. Amends SSA title XVIII to provide for the removal of exclusion of benzodiazepines from required coverage under the Medicare prescription drug program.

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Sponsor

• Sen. Benjamin Cardin [D, MD]

Committees

• Senate Finance

Amendments

This bill has no amendments.

Amendments to S.137

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January 04, 2007

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• Jan 04, 2007: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
• Introduced on Jan 04, 2007.

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August 16, 2008 Gray Zone

S. 137-158. Amerikaner teilen direkt mit, was sie bitten wollen oder sie sagen müssen. Dieses Verhalten ist deutlich und sozusagen “Yes or No”. Japaner wandern zwischen “Yes” oder “No” und dieses Gebiet nennt Itasaka “

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von Schlippe, Arist/Schweitzer, Jochen: Lehrbuch der systemischen Therapie I, Göttingen 2000; S.137-163. Simon, Fritz B./Rech-Simon, Christel: Zirkuläres Fragen, Heidelberg 2007. Das Buch, das ich derzeit lese, Coaching-Tools, ...

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