 January 7 - Senate Finance Creates Two Health Subcommittees |
| January 14 - Authors Defend Catastrophic-Insurance Law |
| January 14 - Koop Urges New Anti-Smoking Action |
| February 4 - Broad Plans to Revise Health Insurance Offered |
| February 4 - Members Propose Medicaid Changes |
| February 25 - A Medicare Glossary |
| February 25 - Doctor Bills Are Next Target For Cost-Control Efforts |
| February 25 - HEALTH/HUMAN SERVICES: Sullivan Nomination OK'd 19-0 By Key Senate Committee |
| February 25 - Physician Cost-Containment |
| March 4 - CONFIRMATION HEARINGS: Bennett Headed for Approval As National 'Drug Czar' |
| March 4 - Members May Target Referrals To Doctor-Owned Facilities |
| March 4 - Physician Ownership Of |
| March 4 - Sullivan Confirmed As HHS Secretary |
| March 11 - MEDICARE/MEDICAID: States Failed to Cover Costs For Poor, Study Shows |
| March 11 - New 'Pepper Commission' Has Rocky Beginning |
| March 18 - HEALTH: Physician-Fee Schedule Urged For the Medicare Program |
| March 25 - HEALTH: AMA, Other Groups Target Physician-Fee Proposal |
| April 1 - Coalition Seeks to Overcome Rural Health-Care Woes |
| April 1 - HEALTH/HUMAN SERVICES: Sullivan to Keep Severance Pay |
| April 8 - Drop in U.S. Infant Mortality Goal of New Legislation |
| April 8 - Lawmakers Seek Research Into Best Medical Procedures |
| April 15 - HEALTH: Catastrophic-Insurance Law Survives First Challenge |
| April 15 - Kennedy, Waxman Introduce |
| April 15 - SECTION NOTES: Rostenkowski Introduces Section 89 Changes |
| April 15 - TRAUMA CARE: House Panel OKs Grant Program |
| April 22 - Parental, Medical Leave Bill Gets Markup in Senate |
| April 22 - Surtax Reduction a Possibility, But Critics Demand Repeal |
| April 29 - Bush, Rostenkowski Say 'No' To a Medicare Surtax Cut |
| April 29 - HEALTH: Report Finds Links Between Referrals, Lab Billings |
| April 29 - Major Health-Policy Changes |
| May 13 - AIDS: Covered Indirectly |
| May 13 - HEALTH: Family-Planning Battle Flares In Senate, Federal Courts |
| May 20 - Moynihan Fuming at HHS |
| June 3 - Authors Defend Health-Costs Law |
| June 3 - HEALTH: Pepper Commission Is Still on Track |
| June 3 - HEALTH: Senate Finance Tilting Toward A Cut in Medicare Surtax |
| June 10 - Catastrophic-Coverage Law Narrowly Survives Test |
| June 10 - HEALTH: Family-Planning Bill Stalled Again in Senate Labor |
| June 10 - Ways and Means Health Panel Targets Medicare Savings |
| June 17 - Medicare's Physician Fees Revised by House Panel |
| June 17 - SECTION NOTES: Family-Planning Funds, Teen Pregnancy |
| June 17 - SECTION NOTES: Rockefeller to Head Pepper Commission |
| June 24 - HEALTH: Medicaid Plan Would Reach 2 Million More Children |
| July 1 - HEALTH: Maneuvering Continues Over Catastrophic-Costs Law |
| July 1 - Ways and Means OKs Overhaul Of Medicare Payment Plan |
| July 15 - HEALTH: Mandated-Benefits Legislation OK'd by Senate Committee |
| July 15 - HUMAN SERVICES: Authorization OK'd For Nutrition Aid |
| July 15 - Panel May Pave Way for Death Of Catastrophic-Costs Law |
| July 15 - RECONCILIATION: Expansion OK'd For Medicaid |
| July 15 - VETERANS: Agent Orange Compensation Approved by Senate Panel |
| July 22 - Catastrophic-Costs Dilemma Grips Ways and Means |
| July 22 - RECONCILIATION: Panel Votes Funds For AIDS Drugs |
| July 29 - Catastrophic Insurance Premiums Compared (chart) |
| July 29 - Catastrophic-Costs Proposal Pleases Almost No One |
| July 29 - Committee OKs $155.2 Billion For Health, Social Programs |
| July 29 - Labor-HHS-Education Funding (chart) |
| July 29 - Next Time, He'll Vote First |
| July 29 - TRANSPORTATION: Politics Cloud the Issues Of Airline Smoking Ban |
| August 5 - SECTION NOTES: Agent Orange Bill Passed in Senate |
| August 12 - A Catastrophic Surprise |
| August 12 - Governors' Medicaid Protests Likely to Be Swept Aside |
| August 12 - Health |
| August 12 - Medicaid Mandates, 1980s |
| September 9 - Bush Reveals Anti-Drug Plan, Calls for Extra $2.2 Billion |
| September 9 - Bush's Anti-Drug Campaign Emphasizes Enforcement |
| September 9 - IMMIGRATION: House Panel OKs Nurse Bill |
| September 9 - Senate Finance Tries Revision Of Catastrophic-Costs Law |
| September 16 - Finance Weighs Benefit Cuts In Catastrophic-Costs Law |
| September 16 - Labor-HHS Funding Measure Ready for Senate Action |
| September 16 - Nursing-Home Costs Soar |
| September 23 - House Seems Likely to Repeal Catastrophic-Costs Law |
| September 23 - Labor-HHS Funding Measure Ready for Senate Passage (chart) |
| September 23 - Repeal: Legislative Hand Grenade? |
| September 30 - Catastrophic-Costs Repeal Vote Looming in Both Chambers |
| September 30 - Major Options in House |
| September 30 - SECTION NOTES: Respite-Care Measure Passed by Senate |
| October 7 - A Decline in Clout for the AMA? |
| October 7 - Belt-Tightening in Medicare Pits Doctor vs. Doctor |
| October 7 - Both Chambers in Retreat On 1988 Medicare Law |
| October 7 - Catastrophic Costs: Vote Switchers |
| October 7 - Medicare Payments to Doctors Revised by Senate Finance |
| October 7 - SECTION NOTES: Foreign Nurses Gain Immigration Break |
| October 7 - VETERANS' AFFAIRS: Senate Passes Benefits Bill, Opens Agent Orange Talks |
| October 14 - Fiscal 1990 Appropriations for Labor |
| October 14 - HUMAN SERVICES: WIC, Other Feeding Programs Near Final Approval on Hill |
| October 14 - Reps. Leath, Martin Votes |
| October 14 - SECTION NOTES: VA Education Benefits Sought for Nurses |
| October 14 - Sen. McCain: An Unlikely 'Savior' |
| October 14 - The Catastrophic-Costs Law: A Massive Miscalculation |
| October 14 - Vote Switchers |
| October 21 - Impasse Over Anti-Deficit Bill Snags Social Initiatives |
| October 21 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Offers Incentives For Nursing Students |
| October 21 - SECTION NOTES: House Eases Immigration For Foreign Nurses |
| October 28 - HEALTH: Uniform Nutrition Labeling Endorsed by House Panel |
| October 28 - SECTION NOTES: Key Nutrition Programs Renewed by Congress |
| October 28 - SECTION NOTES: Trauma-Care Legislation OK'd by House Energy |
| November 4 - Anti-Drug Funding (chart) |
| November 4 - DRUGS: House Approves Anti-Narcotics |
| November 4 - HEALTH: Catastrophic-Costs Accord Near |
| November 4 - HEALTH: FDA, Minority Health Measures Approved by Senate Labor |
| November 4 - PROVISIONS: Major Child Nutrition Programs Reauthorized by Congress |
| November 4 - SECTION NOTES: Payments for AIDS Drug Again OK'd by Panel |
| November 11 - Conferees Struggle to Finish Catastrophic-Costs Rewrite |
| November 18 - Conferees Work Toward Accord On Catastrophic-Costs Law |
| November 18 - DRUGS: Anti-Narcotics Funding Clears; Other Bills Near Completion |
| November 18 - SECTION NOTES: Trauma Care Grants Passed by House |
| November 25 - APPROPRIATIONS: Labor-HHS Appropriations Bill Is Signed by President Bush |
| November 25 - Catastrophic-Coverage Law Is Dismantled by Congress |
| November 25 - Congress Agrees to Overhaul Medicare's Doctor Payments |
| November 25 - DRUGS: Bush Wins Andean Initiative; Two Narcotics Bills Falter |
| November 25 - SECTION NOTES: Minority Health Bill Passed by Senate |
| November 25 - SECTION NOTES: Nurse-Immigration Bill Cleared for Bush |
| November 25 - What's Gone, What's Left |
| December 2 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Health |
| December 2 - PROVISIONS: Repeal of Medicare Law Brings Back Old Limits |
| December 16 - A Bundle of Veterans' Bills |
| December 16 - Agent Orange and Congress: A New 'Generation Gap'? |
| December 16 - What Is Agent Orange? |
