 January 10 - Clinton's Child Care Proposal Draws GOP Supporters and Critics |
| January 10 - HEALTH: Can Promise To Keep Costs Low Give Clinton's Plans a Boost? |
| January 10 - HUMAN SERVICES: Restoring Federal Nutrition Aid Creates Food Fight |
| January 10 - PROVISIONS: Changes to FDA Rules, Procedures |
| January 10 - Smoking Program Hits Bureaucratic Wall |
| January 10 - TOBACCO: No Solution in Sight as Congress Prepares To Tackle Settlement |
| January 17 - RECESS NOTES: Breaux, Thomas To Head Medicare Study |
| January 17 - REGULATION: RJR Papers Cast Further Doubt On Settlement Prospects |
| January 24 - HEALTH CARE: Private Contracting Puts Medicare Back Under the Microscope |
| January 24 - RECESS NOTES: Business Group's Ads Set Out To Quash Health Care Bills |
| January 24 - SCIENCE: Groups Fear Cloning Legislation Could Ban Significant Research |
| January 31 - Alliance Demands 'Right To Choose' |
| January 31 - Executives Vow To Cooperate |
| January 31 - How Much From Tobacco? |
| January 31 - Key Clinton Proposals |
| January 31 - PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Clinton Stresses Accomplishments, Calls State of the Union 'Strong' |
| January 31 - REPUBLICAN RESPONSE: Lott: Fighting for the Family Is GOP's Top Priority |
| January 31 - TOBACCO: Anti-Smoking Drive's New Target: Tobacco Marketing Overseas |
| February 7 - GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS: Senators Work To Gain Support For Rule-Making Overhaul |
| February 7 - How Each Agency and Department Would Fare Under Clinton Budget |
| February 7 - SECTION NOTES: Daschle 'Confident' of Satcher Confirmation in Senate |
| February 7 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Blocks Cloning Debate In Name of Medical Research |
| February 14 - HEALTH/HUMAN SERVICES: Senate Vote Blocks Debate On Bill To Ban Cloning |
| February 14 - HEALTH: Satcher Confirmed For Top Health Job |
| February 21 - HEALTH: Lobbyists Intensifying Debate Over Health Care Regulation |
| February 21 - Lawmakers Look for Ways To Make Health Plans Liable for Errors |
| February 28 - ETHICS: Lawmaker-Doctors Must Abide By Outside Income Rules |
| February 28 - SECTION NOTES: Contentious Hearings Dim Hope For Private Contracting Bill |
| February 28 - SECTION NOTES: Liggett Talks May Interfere With Tobacco Legislation |
| March 14 - First Tobacco Bill Gets Praise |
| March 14 - From the Family Tobacco Fields, They Eye the Hill With Unease |
| March 14 - HEALTH: Clinton Pressures Lawmakers To Cure Managed Care |
| March 14 - MEDICARE: Failure is Not an Option For This Commission |
| March 14 - REGULATION: Ball Is Rolling as Leaders Consider Prospects for Tobacco Legislation |
| March 14 - Thank You for Smoking: Livelihoods Depend on an Industry Under Siege |
| March 14 - Tobacco and Its Impact |
| March 21 - HEALTH: Lawmakers Begin Looking for Cure For Insurance Portability Law |
| March 21 - REGULATION: McCain's Panel Hunkers Down To Work on Tobacco Bill |
| March 21 - THE BUDGET: Tobacco Revenue Drives Debate As GOP Champions Medicare |
| March 28 - HEALTH: For Some Hard-To-Pass Bills, Smaller Can Be Better |
| March 28 - HUMAN SERVICES: Congress To Debate Restoring Food Stamps to Immigrants |
| March 28 - TOBACCO: McCain Optimistic Measure Will Get Panel Approval |
| April 4 - Chart: Tobacco Payments |
| April 4 - HEALTH: Democrats' Health Care Bill Stakes a Claim on the Hill |
| April 4 - HUMAN SERVICES: Senate Shifts Food Stamp Aid To Increase Road Spending |
| April 4 - REGULATION: Heat Intensifies as McCain's Panel Raises the Stakes for Tobacco |
| April 4 - SECTION NOTES: Panel Approves Protections For Biomaterials Suppliers |
| April 4 - The Settlement, McCain Bill Compared |
| April 11 - HEALTH: Managed Care Causes Groups To Spend an Arm and a Leg |
| April 11 - RECESS NOTES: Group Says Bill Would Increase Some Portability Premiums |
| April 11 - REGULATION: Industry Exit From Tobacco Talks May Incur Further Hostility |
| April 18 - A Public Health Pioneer |
| April 18 - COMMERCE: Big Tobacco, Big Government And the Senate's Nicotine Plan |
| April 18 - COMMERCE: Illinois Town Uses the Force of Law To Snuff Out Youth Smoking |
| April 18 - FDA Power Could Be a Puff |
| April 25 - Administration Backs Off Plan For Needle Exchanges |
| April 25 - Both Parties Court the Public As Rift Widens Over Tobacco Legislation |
| April 25 - Medicare Overpaid $20.3 Billion in '97, Report Says |
| April 25 - Odd Couple: Norwood and Bliley |
| May 2 - HEALTH: GOP Moves To Bar Funds For Needle Programs, Offers Anti-Drug Proposals |
| May 9 - Democrats Serve Up School Lunch Fight |
| May 9 - HEALTH: Rep. Norwood's Persistence, Democratic Pressure Keep Focus on Managed Care |
| May 9 - Road Bill Conferees May Grab Money From Ill Veterans Who Smoked |
| May 9 - SOCIAL POLICY: Bill To Extend SSI Benefits for Disabled OK'd |
| May 16 - HEALTH: Nutrition Program's Tempest in a Cereal Bowl |
| May 16 - HEALTH: Senate Democrats Want Broad Managed Care Measure, While House Discussions Continue |
| May 16 - VETERANS AFFAIRS: Vets' Care Gets Boost From Medicare Bill |
| May 23 - HEALTH: Gingrich to GOP Task Force: Better Managed Care Without Over-Regulation |
| May 30 - From the Editor |
| May 30 - Unsafe Food Sparks Outbreaks Of Concern, Little Action |
| June 6 - Bill Would Ensure Treatment For Vets Exposed to Toxics |
| June 6 - HEALTH: House Eases Return to Jobs For Disabled |
| June 6 - HEALTH: Managed-Care Task Force's Tensions Burst Into View |
| June 6 - Medicare Commission Debates Long-Term Strategies |
| June 6 - SOCIAL POLICY: House Clears Agriculture Bill, Restoring Food Stamps To Legal Immigrants |
| June 6 - SOCIAL POLICY: Years of Belt-Tightening May Be Coming to an End For Child Nutrition Programs |
| June 13 - Adventures in Privatization |
| June 13 - Anti-Drug Provisions Added |
| June 13 - HEALTH: Managed-Care Task Force Tries To Regroup After Outbreak of Ill Feelings |
| June 13 - REGULATION: Tobacco Debate Rages On, Keeping Bill Alive, If Unwieldy |
| June 20 - HEALTH: House Task Force Members Report Progress on Bill To Overhaul Managed Care |
| June 20 - HEALTH: Lawmakers Undecided on Taking Lives Into Congress' Hands |
| June 20 - REGULATION: Amendments and Ads Bury 'Inviolable' Tobacco Bill |
| June 27 - Bill on Medical Device Liability Heads to House |
| June 27 - GOP's Health Care Details |
| June 27 - HEALTH: GOP Tries To Claim Middle Ground With Managed Care Overhaul Plan |
| June 27 - REGULATION: Democrats and Republicans Compete To Develop Passable Tobacco Legislation |
| July 4 - A Managed Care Plan With Little Appeal |
| July 4 - HEALTH: Association of Health Plans Steps Up Effort To Discredit Managed Care Legislation |
| July 4 - REGULATION: When Congress Hedges, How Far Can an Agency Go? |
| July 11 - APPROPRIATIONS: Surprise Health Care Rider Added to VA-HUD Bill Leaves Spending in Limbo |
| July 18 - APPROPRIATIONS: Labor-HHS Bill Is Loaded With Hot-Button Issues |
| July 18 - Chart: Comparing the Bills |
| July 18 - From the Editor |
| July 18 - HEALTH: Congress Tries To Find a Remedy For the Common Cause |
| July 18 - HEALTH: FDA's Drug Approval Process Under a Microscope Again |
| July 18 - N.C. Race Measures Marketability Of Patients' Rights Issue |
| July 25 - Health Care Correction |
| July 25 - HEALTH: GOP's Managed Care Bill Rushes Through House |
| July 25 - SOCIAL POLICY: House Votes To Expand Child Nutrition Aid, Feed More Students |
| August 1 - HEALTH: Patients' Rights Bill May Die Aborning |
| August 1 - Patients' Advocates and Cost Cutters: Congress Forced Into Contradictions |
| August 1 - Side-by-Side Comparisons of HMO Bills |
| August 8 - LAW & JUDICIARY: Judiciary Panel Backs Penalties On Suicide Aid |
| August 8 - Mammography Standards Bill Advances in House |
| September 5 - APPROPRIATIONS: Senate Spurns House Cuts In Labor-HHS Spending; Clinton Praises 'Good First Step' |
| September 5 - Chart: Labor-HHS-Education Spending |
| September 5 - Chart: VA-HUD-Independent Agencies Spending |
| September 5 - GOP Questions, Spending Bills May Cut Off FDA Nomination |
| September 19 - HEALTH: Doubts Grow About House Bill To Punish Physician-Aided Suicide |
| September 19 - HEALTH: House Formulates New System To Pay Home Care Agencies, But Relief Is Still an Offset Away |
| September 26 - An Old Law With New Clout |
| September 26 - HEALTH: Purse Strings and Heartstrings: The Home Health Dilemma |
| September 26 - SOCIAL POLICY: Prospects Fade For Passage Of Suicide Bill |
| October 3 - HEALTH: Mammogram Notification Bill Clears |
| October 3 - Labor-HHS Spending Bill Heads for House Floor |
| October 3 - Medicare Managed Care Insurers Claim Financial Squeeze |
| October 10 - APPROPRIATIONS: House, Senate Struggle Toward Compromise on Home Health Care Payments |
| October 10 - APPROPRIATIONS: Labor-HHS Bill Stalls; Programs May Be Wrapped Into Omnibus Spending Measure |
| October 10 - SOCIAL POLICY: House Clears Reauthorization Of Nutrition Programs, Extending Aid to Low-Income Teens |
| October 17 - APPROPRIATIONS: Labor-HHS Spending Includes Additional Billions For Schools, Medical Research |
| October 17 - HEALTH: Home Health Agencies Poised To Win Higher Medicare Payments, Postponement in Cutbacks |
| October 24 - APPROPRIATIONS: D'Amato Gains Political Boost From Broadening Coverage Of Breast Cancer Treatment |
| October 24 - APPROPRIATIONS: Home Health Care Agency Relief Plan To Be Financed Partly by Taxes on Prizes |
| October 24 - APPROPRIATIONS: Medical Research and Education Are Big Winners in Spending Bill |
| October 24 - GOOBERS: 'Peanut Police' Handcuffed |
| October 24 - Senate Authorizes Payments for Hemophiliacs With AIDS |
| October 24 - Senate Confirms Henney As FDA Commissioner |
| October 31 - Louisiana Blockade |
| December 5 - Four Prominent Privatization Plans |
| December 12 - HEALTH: Lawmakers Say Clinton's Plan To Combat Medicare Fraud Is a Good First Step |
