 January 2 - Final Provisions, Fiscal 1988 Labor-HHS Appropriations |
| January 2 - Many Labor-HHS Programs Win Fund Increases |
| January 9 - Major Provisions of the Fiscal 1988 Reconciliation Bill |
| January 9 - Nursing Homes, Vaccine Injuries, Rural Health: Reconciliation Bill Includes Several Key Health Changes |
| January 16 - Rostenkowski Draws the Line on Medicare Cuts |
| February 6 - Congress May Stiffen Medical-Device Controls |
| February 6 - Doctors, Others Challenge Regulations: New Family-Planning Rules Draw Lawsuits |
| February 6 - Senate Passes Two Public Health Bills |
| February 13 - Comparison of Catastrophic-Care Proposals (chart) |
| February 13 - House-Senate Ill Will May Surface: Conferees Set to Begin Work On Catastrophic-Costs Bill |
| February 13 - Senate OKs Bill on FDA Commissioner |
| February 20 - Court Blocks Reagan Family-Planning Regulations |
| February 20 - Major Proposals in Reagan's Fiscal 1989 Budget |
| February 20 - Senate Labor OKs Mandated-Benefits Measure |
| February 27 - AIDS Commission Surprises Critics |
| March 5 - Family-Planning Regulations Postponed |
| March 5 - Ignoring Reagan, House Passes Grove City Bill |
| March 5 - Increase for Substance-Abuse Programs: Senate Panel OKs Extensions For Several Health Programs |
| March 12 - Community Health: A Case Study |
| March 12 - Waxman Yields on Orphan Drug Amendments |
| March 19 - Conferees at Work on Catastrophic-Costs Bill |
| March 26 - House OKs Orphan-Drug Reauthorization |
| March 26 - No Real Threat to Bill Seen: Catastrophic-Costs Conferees Irked by Lobbying Assaults |
| April 2 - Orphan-Drug Legislation Cleared |
| April 2 - Senate OKs Bill to Shut Drug 'Gray Market' |
| April 9 - Issue Is Gaining Political Momentum: Lawmakers Taking Hard Look At Problem of Long-Term Care |
| April 9 - Long Term Care '88: Campaign for an Issue |
| April 16 - NIH Scientist Corps Also OK'd: Senate Committee Endorses Research Institute on Deafness |
| April 16 - Panel Votes New AIDS Commission |
| April 16 - Slow Progress Made by Health-Bill Conferees |
| April 23 - Core Issue for Catastrophic-Costs Insurance: Health Conferees to Decide Who Benefits, at What Price |
| April 23 - Dukakis Signs Health Insurance Law |
| April 23 - Mitchell Offers Long-Term Care Bill |
| April 23 - SUPREME COURT NOTES: Veterans and Alcoholism |
| April 30 - After Fiery Debate, Senate Passes AIDS Bill |
| April 30 - Conferees Closing Gap on Health-Costs Bill |
| May 7 - Conferees Nearing Accord on Health-Costs Bill |
| May 7 - HHS Unveils AIDS Information Mailer |
| May 14 - Conference Nearing a Conclusion: Dispute Over Drug Benefit Slows Catastrophic-Costs Bill |
| May 14 - House OKs WIC Coupons for Farmers' Markets |
| May 21 - Bills on Trauma Care, Homeless Also OK'd: Panel Seeks Stiffer Review of Medical Devices |
| May 21 - New Report Ignites Anti-Smoking Campaign |
| May 21 - Panel OKs Community Health Centers Bill |
| May 21 - Pepper's Push Propels Health-Costs Bill |
| May 28 - Catastrophic-Costs Bill Ready for Final Action |
| May 28 - Health House Panel OKs Community-Health-Center Bill |
| May 28 - Sets Testing, Counseling Policy: Long-Stalled AIDS Measure Moving in House |
| June 4 - 'Pepper Bill' Pits Politics Against Process |
| June 4 - Conservative Opposition an Obstacle: AIDS Experts Urge Anti-Discrimination Law |
| June 4 - House Adopts Conference Report: Catastrophic-Costs Measure Ready for Final Hill Approval |
| June 11 - Catastrophic-Costs Bill Is Sent to White House |
| June 11 - House Approves Hearing-Aid Bill |
| June 11 - Long-Term Care Bill Derailed - For Now |
| June 11 - Singing His Praises, House Says 'No' to Pepper |
| June 18 - Health Notes: House Subcommittee OKs AIDS Research Legislation |
| June 18 - Includes $1.2 Billion to Combat AIDS: House Passes $135.8 Billion Labor-HHS Bill |
| June 18 - Labor/HHS/Education Funding (chart) |
| June 18 - Senate Passes Community Health Centers Bill |
| June 18 - Senate Passes Renewal of Organ-Donor Programs |
| June 25 - AIDS-Testing Bill OK'd, Minus Anti-Bias Clause |
| June 25 - Bills on Drugs, Handicapped Win Approval |
| June 25 - Committee Approves AIDS Research Bill |
| June 25 - Experts Skeptical of Congress' Anti-Drug Effort |
| June 25 - GOP Fighting for Capital Punishment: House Anti-Drug Bill Begins to Take Shape |
| June 25 - Health Notes: Tougher Medical-Device Oversight Approved |
| June 25 - Labor/HHS/Education Funding (chart) |
| June 25 - Panel Approves Bill on Alcohol, Drug Abuse |
| June 25 - Panel OKs Bill on Sexually Transmitted Diseases |
| July 2 - Community, Migrant Health Centers |
| July 2 - Deafness Institute, Trauma-Center Program Approved: House Panel OKs Bills on Nursing, Health Issues |
| July 2 - HEALTH/HUMAN SERVICES NOTES Congress Renews WIN Programs |
| July 2 - Reagan Signs Catastrophic-Care Bill |
| July 9 - Health Corps, Animal-Drug Bills Approved: House Panel OKs Health-Professions Subsidies |
| July 9 - House Panel Approves Health Bill |
| July 16 - Health Notes: Committees Seek to Promote Technology for Handicapped |
| July 16 - Health Notes: FDA Revision |
| July 16 - Health Notes: Health Professions |
| July 16 - Health Notes: Nursing Shortage |
| July 16 - Health Notes: Preventive Health |
| July 16 - Health Notes: Sexually Transmitted Ills |
| July 16 - House Votes New Deafness Institute |
| July 30 - Amendments Held for Second Measure: House OKs 'Dire Emergency' Supplemental Bill |
| July 30 - Health Notes: Crisis Nurseries |
| July 30 - Health Notes: House Passes Bill to Tighten Regulation of Medical Devices |
| July 30 - Health Notes: Public Health Programs |
| July 30 - Senate Panel OKs Trauma-Care Bill |
| August 6 - Clinical Laboratories Face Stiffer Regulation |
| August 6 - Employer Benefits, Expanded Medicaid: Commission Urges New Steps To Combat Infant Mortality |
| August 6 - Health Notes: Community Health Centers |
| August 6 - Health Notes: Protections for Mentally Ill |
| August 6 - Health Notes: Senate OKs Bill to Underwrite Devices, Services for Disabled |
| August 6 - President Ignores Commission Recommendation: Reagan Plan Dooms AIDS Anti-Bias Legislation |
| August 6 - Senate OKs NIH Bill, Adds Deafness Institute |
| August 13 - Generic Animal Drugs, International Health Corps |
| August 13 - Health Notes: Bills to Regulate Clinical Labs Advance in Both Chambers |
| August 20 - Senate Loosens Federal Strings on HMOs |
| September 3 - Partisan Lines Drawn for Debate on Drug Bill |
| September 10 - Senate Passes Bill to Combat Nurse Shortage |
| September 10 - The Coming Dilemma: Access, Quality, Cost |
| September 17 - Final Fiscal 1989 Labor-HHS Appropriations (chart) |
| September 17 - Health Notes: House Approves Bill to Create Tighter Rules for Clinical Labs |
| September 17 - House Gears Up for Debate on AIDS Policy |
| September 24 - Drug Bill Could Become the Vehicle: New Alcohol, Tobacco Warning Labels Urged |
| September 24 - House Passes Bill Setting Federal AIDS Policy |
| September 24 - Protections for Mentally Ill Also OK'd: House Votes to Renew Aid For Training in Health Careers |
| October 1 - Doctors' Fees Are Unfairly Skewed, Study Says |
| October 1 - Health Notes: Congress Agrees to Extend AZT Funds for AIDS Victims |
| October 1 - Health Notes: Generic Animal Drugs |
| October 1 - Health Notes: Indian Health Care |
| October 1 - Health Notes: Trauma Care |
| October 8 - HEALTH NOTES: Abandoned Babies |
| October 8 - HEALTH NOTES: HMO Reauthorization |
| October 8 - Health Notes: Justice Reverses AIDS Policy; Sen. Helms Delays Legislation |
| October 8 - HEALTH NOTES: Preventive Health |
| October 8 - HEALTH NOTES: Rights of the Mentally Ill |
| October 8 - House OKs Nurse-Education Bill |
| October 8 - House Passes Animal-Drug Measure |
| October 15 - Concessions to Sen. Helms on Testing: Omnibus Health Bill Cleared With Modified AIDS Provisions |
| October 15 - Congress Clears Animal-Drug Bill |
| October 15 - Congress Relaxes Strictures on HMOs |
| October 15 - Congress Stiffens Controls on Clinical Labs |
| October 15 - House, Senate Vote to Set Up Deafness Institute |
| October 22 - Fate of Indian Health Bill Uncertain |
| October 22 - No Word From White House Yet on AIDS Bill |
| October 29 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Health |
| October 29 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Human Services |
| November 12 - President Reagan's Veto Messages |
| November 12 - White House Announces Four 'Pocket Vetoes' |
| November 26 - Health Technical Corrections Vetoed: Text of Reagan's Disapproval of Lobbying-Restrictions Bill |
| December 3 - Catastrophic-Insurance Law: Costs vs. Benefits |
| December 10 - Few Firm Price Tags for Bush Proposals (chart) |
| December 10 - Some Bush Ideas Are Current Law |
| December 17 - Action Needed to Combat Shortages: Panel Urges Medicare Boost To Permit Higher Nursing Pay |
| December 24 - Legislative Outlook: Health |
