 January 10 - Health/Human Services: Budget Cuts in Health and Welfare Raise Hackles on Hill |
| January 17 - Anti-Smoking Groups Unveil Agenda |
| January 17 - Kennedy Off and Running With Liberal Agenda |
| January 31 - Senate Panel Revives Indian Health Care Bill |
| January 31 - White House Plans Not Ready Yet: Congress Takes Ball and Runs After State of the Union Punt |
| February 7 - Bills Introduced on Cigarette Taxes, Pricing |
| February 14 - Fighting AIDS: Congress Looks for a Way to Help |
| February 14 - Reagan Sides With Bowen on Medicare Plan |
| February 14 - TV Networks Resist Push for Condom Ads |
| February 21 - Synar Offers Bill to Ban Tobacco Advertising |
| February 28 - New Bills Introduced on Catastrophic Illness |
| February 28 - Reagan, Big Business Opposed: Labor, Health Groups Push Bill To Notify Workers of Hazards |
| March 7 - AIDS Vote Gauges Support for Tests |
| March 7 - Panel Considers Alternatives to Bowen Plan |
| March 7 - Use Medical Judgment, Not 'Myths,' Court Says: Law Protecting Handicapped Applied to Victims of Disease |
| March 28 - New Bid Made to Expand Medicaid Eligibility |
| March 28 - Spending Bill Reflects Congress' Wants, Needs |
| March 28 - Supplemental Totals (chart) |
| April 4 - House Moving Against Unscrupulous Doctors |
| April 11 - Fight Over Physician Drug Sales Put Off: House Panel Moves to Halt 'Gray Market' Sales of Drugs |
| April 11 - House Panel Backs Big Expansion of Medicare |
| April 18 - Medicare, Medicaid Patients Paying More for Care |
| April 18 - Stark-AMA Battle Escalates |
| April 25 - Key Element in Catastrophic Insurance Plan: Expansion of Medicare Sought To Improve Home Health Care |
| April 25 - Legislative Package Unveiled: Effort Launched to Support Rural Health Care |
| April 25 - Panel Moves to Bar Physician Drug Sales |
| May 2 - House Energy OKs Health Service Corps Bill |
| May 9 - Comparison of Catastrophic Care Proposals (chart) |
| May 9 - Health Notes: House Moves to Close 'Gray Market' for Drugs |
| May 9 - House Panel Approves Catastrophic Care Plan |
| May 9 - Senate Taking Catastrophic Cue From House |
| May 16 - Congress Faces Major Fight Over AIDS Testing |
| May 23 - Bill Would Make Employers Provide Insurance |
| May 23 - New Medicare Plan May Include Drug Coverage |
| May 30 - Bill to Bar Unscrupulous Doctors OK'd |
| May 30 - Four-Year Reauthorization Passed: House Votes Higher Spending Under Older Americans Act |
| May 30 - Major Provisions, 1987 Supplemental Funding Bill |
| May 30 - S1127: Bill's Highlights |
| May 30 - Senate Panel Approves Medicare Expansion |
| June 6 - Foreign Aid, Arms Control, Immigration Issues: House-Senate Disputes Likely Over Fiscal 1987 Supplemental |
| June 6 - Health Notes: House Acts to Bar Unscrupulous, Unfit Doctors |
| June 6 - Test Requirement for Immigrants, Marriage-License Applicants: Reagan Discloses Controversial AIDS Plan |
| June 6 - Validity of Tests Questioned: Reagan Joins Debate on AIDS, Urges More 'Routine' Testing |
| June 13 - Approved on Party-Line Vote: House Panel Adds Drug Benefit To Catastrophic-Insurance Bill |
| June 13 - Bill to Restrict Physician Drug Sales |
| June 20 - $635 Million Authorization: Senate Labor OKs AIDS Bill, But Delays Testing Decisions |
| June 20 - Fiscal 1988 Interior Appropriations (chart) |
| June 20 - Two Panels Add Drug Coverage to Medicare |
| June 27 - AMA Opposes Reagan on AIDS Testing |
| June 27 - Cuts in Medicare Sought: Ways and Means Begins Reconciliation Process |
| June 27 - Fast Track, Slow Crawl: A Tale of Two Bills |
| June 27 - Pepper Adds New Complications: House Panel Completes Work On Catastrophic-Insurance Bill |
| July 4 - All From Providers, Not Patients: House Panel Recommends $1.5 Billion in Medicare Cuts |
| July 4 - Democratic Leaders Slow Pace of Medicare Bill |
| July 4 - Energy Subcommittee Markup: Longer Medicaid Extension Added to Welfare |
| July 4 - House OKs Three Veterans' Bills |
| July 4 - Labor Panel Approves Two Health Bills |
| July 4 - Major Provisions of Supplemental Funding Bill |
| July 11 - Bill to Aid Abandoned Infants With AIDS Approved |
| July 11 - Catastrophic-Insurance Bill Headed to House Floor |
| July 18 - 'No-Fault' System Waiting in Wings: Still No Agreement on Funding For Vaccine Compensation Plan |
| July 18 - Catastrophic Health Insurance: Some Definitions |
| July 18 - Medicare Expansion Ready for House Floor |
| July 18 - Pepper Leaves Mark on Catastrophic-Care Bill |
| July 25 - Major Provisions of Catastrophic-Insurance Bill |
| July 25 - Reagan Threatens a Veto: House OKs Medicare Expansion Despite Reservations Over Cost |
| July 25 - Senate Passes Ban on Unscrupulous Doctors |
| July 25 - Senate Votes to Reauthorize Health Programs |
| July 25 - Supplemental Premium (chart) |
| August 1 - House Clears Bill to Bar Unfit Doctors |
| August 1 - Labor/HHS/Education Funding (chart) |
| August 1 - More Voluntary Testing: Waxman, Kennedy Offer Bills Ensuring Privacy of AIDS Tests |
| August 1 - Panel Approves Labor-HHS Appropriations Bill |
| August 1 - Reagan Restricts Family Planning Funds |
| August 1 - Regional Split Over Hospital Payments: More Deep Cuts in Medicare Approved by Ways and Means |
| August 1 - Veterans' Bills Advance in House, Senate |
| August 8 - Added Spending Voted for Medicaid: New Medicare Funding Cuts OK'd by House Committee |
| August 8 - Health/Human Services Notes: House, Senate Pass Bills Dealing With AIDS |
| August 8 - House Passes Labor-HHS Appropriations Bill |
| August 8 - Senate Passes Infant Health Bill |
| August 15 - Defense Department to Seek Organ Donors |
| August 15 - Health Service Supports Voluntary AIDS Testing |
| August 15 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Health |
| August 15 - Major Provisions of Bill to Exclude Unfit Doctors |
| September 5 - Comparison of Catastrophic-Care Proposals (chart) |
| September 5 - Senate Leaders Look for Early Action on Medicare |
| September 12 - House Passes Health Service Corps Bill |
| September 19 - Labor-HHS Bill OK'd by Senate Panel |
| September 19 - Premium Rise Threatens Medicare Bill |
| September 19 - Senate Panel to Consider Ban on Smoking |
| September 19 - Simultaneous Applications Favored: Panel Moves to Coordinate Food Stamps, Welfare |
| September 26 - A 'Leave It to the States' Approach: Administration AIDS Policy Comes Under Fire in House |
| September 26 - Bentsen Examining Cost of Medicare Expansion |
| September 26 - Health Programs Approved by House Panel |
| October 10 - Aim Is to Ensure Competition: Panel Seeks to Tighten 'Orphan Drug' Law |
| October 10 - Increased Staffing, Training Proposed: Congress, HHS Seek Upgrade In Nursing Home Standards |
| October 10 - Indian Health Bill OK'd by House Panel |
| October 10 - Panel OKs Community Health Bill |
| October 10 - Senate Ready to Begin Debate: Protagonists Still Jockeying Over Catastrophic-Costs Bill |
| October 17 - A Shell Is Built for Pepper's Proposal: Long-Term Care Plan May Find a House Vehicle |
| October 17 - Accord Set on Catastrophic-Costs Bill |
| October 17 - After AIDS Debate, Senate OKs Labor-HHS Bill |
| October 17 - Community Health Bill Also OK'd: 'Orphan Drug' Legislation Approved by House Energy |
| October 17 - Cost-Paring Move May Not Avert Veto: Vaccine Compensation Plan Cut Back by Two House Panels |
| October 17 - House Votes Health Research Reauthorization |
| October 17 - Labor/HHS/Education Funding (chart) |
| October 17 - Repels Attack on Space Station: Senate Approves $57.3 Billion For HUD, VA, Other Agencies |
| October 24 - $1.8 Billion Cut From Medicare: Health Reconciliation Proposal Includes Both More and Less |
| October 24 - Bars Use of Funds to 'Promote' Homosexuality: House Joins Senate on AIDS Education Rider |
| October 24 - House Passes Veterans' Health-Care Bill |
| October 24 - Panel OKs Indian Health-Care Bill |
| October 24 - Senate Turns to Catastrophic-Costs Bill |
| October 31 - Bill Ready for House-Senate Conference: Catastrophic-Costs Measure Back on Track Despite Delays |
| October 31 - Health-Programs Reauthorization Advances |
| October 31 - House Passes Organ-Transplant Bill |
| October 31 - Major Provisions, Catastrophic Health-Costs Bill |
| November 7 - House Passes HMO Bill |
| November 7 - Research, Manpower and Vaccine Reauthorizations: Omnibus Health-Programs Bill Cleared for President Reagan |
| November 14 - Bill Seeks to Reduce Infant Mortality |
| November 14 - Senate Labor OKs Family-Planning Legislation |
| November 21 - Pepper Wins a Round on Long-Term Care Bill |
| November 28 - Budget Action Takes Precedence: New Medicare Cuts May Delay Catastrophic-Insurance Bill |
| December 5 - Members Uneasy About Issues, Politics: Congress Is Stalemated Over AIDS Epidemic |
| December 5 - Provides 4.2 Percent COLA: Senate Approves Veterans' Bill After Debate on AIDS, Drugs |
| December 5 - Sharing the Burden of Deficit Reduction: Finance Package Boosts Costs For Medicare Beneficiaries |
| December 12 - Senate Panel OKs Drug 'Gray Market' Bill |
| December 19 - Charity Doesn't Affect Food Stamp Eligibility |
| December 19 - Medicaid Provisions a Key Sticking Point: Disputes Over Health Issues Prove Difficult to Resolve |
| December 26 - Some Blame Reagan for Their Dilemma: Curbs on Health Spending Leave Democrats Divided |
| December 26 - The 100th Congress: Health |
