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    This page contains Congressional resolutions. Resolutions indicate the topics that legislators care about, btu cannot legislate about.

99-MGC2 on Oct 14, 1999

  • WHEREAS, Medicare premiums paid to Health Maintenance Organizations (HMO) are set at 95% of the current fee-for-service Medicare spending on residents of the county where the HMO is to be offered; and
  • WHEREAS, The lack of readily accessible medical care in some areas results in lower utilization of medical services and lower Medicare spending; and
  • WHEREAS, The combination of the Medicare HMO premium formula and differences in medical care service utilization results in fewer medical benefits for many Medicare HMO participants in rural, and other low medical care utilization areas; and
  • WHEREAS, Medicaid will likely be used to fill the coverage gap in these areas, requiring additional state money; and
  • WHEREAS, Language in the 1997 Balanced Budget Act was designed to address these inequities; now therefore be it,
  • RESOLVED, That the Midwestern Governors’ Conference encourages Congress to continue its effort to address these inequities, and to resist efforts to reverse the changes made to Medicare HMO premiums in the Balanced Budget Act of 1997.


    Participating counts on VoteMatch question 5.
  • Topic: Health Care
  • Headline: Maintain Medicare funding of HMO benefits (Score: 1)
  • Key for participation codes:
  • Sponsorships: p=sponsored; o=co-sponsored; s=signed
  • Memberships: c=chair; m=member; e=endorsed; f=profiled; s=scored
  • Resolutions: i=introduced; w=wrote; a=adopted
  • Cases: w=wrote; j=joined; d=dissented; c=concurred



Democrats participating in 99-MGC2

Mel Carnahan s1sMO Democrat Senator (Former)
Ben Nelson s1sNE Democrat Jr Senator
Frank O'Bannon s1sIN Former Democratic
Paul Patton s1sKY Former Democrat
Edward Schafer s1sND00 Former Democrat
Tom Vilsack s1sIA Former Democrat



Republicans participating in 99-MGC2

John Engler s1sMI Former Republican
Bill Graves s1sKS Former Republican
Bill Janklow s1sSD00 Former Republican
George Ryan s1sIL Former Republican
Bob Taft s1sOH Former Republican



Independents participating in 99-MGC2

Tommy Thompson s1sUS Cabinet-2005
Jesse Ventura s1sMN Former Independent



Total recorded by OnTheIssues:

Democrats: 6
Republicans: 5
Independents: 2

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