 February 4 - HEALTH: Surgeon General Nominee Chosen |
| February 11 - FUNCTION BY FUNCTION: Health and Medicare |
| February 11 - HEALTH: Medicare, Medicaid on Table For Possible Cuts |
| February 11 - NOMINATIONS: Foster's Problems Illustrate Anti-Abortion Strength |
| February 18 - GOP Cure for Medicaid Costs Pegged to Private Insurance |
| February 18 - TAXES: GOP's Plan To Retain Tax Break Inflames Racial Tensions |
| February 25 - HEALTH: Panel Approves a 'Little Step' Toward Medicare Overhaul |
| February 25 - Labor-HHS Panel Rescinds $6 Billion |
| March 11 - HEALTH: Panel Votes To Expand Use Of Medigap Policies |
| March 18 - HEALTH: Medicare Cuts Bill OK'd by Panel |
| March 18 - Senate Finance OKs Extension Of Health Insurance Break |
| March 25 - Health: Panel OKs Second Version Of Managed-Care Bill |
| April 1 - Health Care Options |
| April 1 - Health: GOP Revives 1994's Hot Issue: Health Insurance Overhaul |
| April 1 - Health: Senate Panel OKs Ryan White Act |
| April 8 - HEALTH: Medical Malpractice Measure Delayed by Substitute Bill |
| April 8 - SECTION NOTES: House Approves Legislation On Seniors' Use of HMOs |
| April 8 - Senate Clears Tax Break For Health Insurance |
| April 8 - TAXES: Medicare Is Targeted for Large Cuts In Domenici's Risky Seven-Year Plan |
| April 22 - GOP Walking Into a 'Hornets' Nest' As It Takes Aim at Health Programs |
| April 29 - Foster's Fate May Rest in Hands Of Three GOP Senators |
| April 29 - LIABILITY: GOP Leaders Overrule Panel On Malpractice Bill |
| April 29 - NOMINATIONS: Surgeon General's Role |
| May 6 - Foster's Answers Keep His Bid For Surgeon General Alive |
| May 6 - NOMINATIONS: Excerpts From Testimony |
| May 6 - PRODUCT LIABILITY: Groups' Contributions (chart) |
| May 6 - THE BUDGET: Medicare Trust Fund |
| May 6 - THE BUDGET: Medicare's Woes, While Nothing New Are Politically Charged This Year |
| May 13 - Medicare: Throwing Down the Gauntlet |
| May 13 - NOMINATIONS: Pending Vote on Foster Places Sen. Frist in Quandary |
| May 13 - PRODUCT LIABILITY: Malpractice Reform: What's Next? |
| May 13 - SECTION NOTES: Agent Orange Treatment May Be Expanded |
| May 13 - SECTION NOTES: Ways and Means Joins In Medicare Battle |
| May 20 - HEALTH: Medicaid Cuts Overshadowed, But Concerns Are Growing |
| May 20 - HEALTH: Medicaid Expenditures (chart) |
| May 20 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Seeking Medicare Board's Advice Fails in House |
| May 20 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Passes Expansion Of Medicare Select Plan |
| May 27 - NOMINATIONS: Foster Clears One Hurdle, Hopes for Floor Vote |
| June 10 - State Medicaid Statistics (chart) |
| June 10 - State Spending Per Enrollee (chart) |
| June 10 - States Guard Their Borders As Medicaid Talks Begin |
| June 10 - The Blossoming of Medicaid |
| June 17 - Clinton Budget Resurrects Health Care Proposals |
| June 17 - SECTION NOTES: Panel OKs Further Funding For Federal AIDS Program |
| June 24 - HEALTH: Defeat of Foster Nomination May Have Lingering Effect |
| June 24 - HEALTH: Medigap Expansion OK'd by Conferees |
| June 24 - HEALTH: The GOP Split |
| July 1 - HEALTH: Medicare Select Expansion Heads to President |
| July 1 - THE BUDGET: Medicare Cuts Yet To Be Fleshed Out |
| July 15 - APPROPRIATIONS: Labor, HHS Panel Takes Aim At Clinton Initiatives |
| July 15 - APPROPRIATIONS: Labor-HHS-Education |
| July 15 - HEALTH: Bill Would Renew Ryan White Act |
| July 15 - HEALTH: Clinton Signs Bill To Expand Managed Care for Seniors |
| July 22 - HEALTH: Modest Insurance Revision Has Bipartisan Support |
| July 22 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Panel Approves Boxing Legislation |
| July 22 - Tobacco Conflict Smoldering As Critics Step Up Assaults |
| July 22 - Using Vouchers for Medicare May Help GOP Cut Costs |
| July 29 - APPROPRIATIONS: Giving Up on the 'Drug Czar' |
| July 29 - HEALTH: Senate Votes To Reauthorize Ryan White AIDS Program |
| July 29 - Medicare Vote Will Be Tight |
| August 5 - GOP Seeks Health Cost Savings In Worker Medical Accounts |
| August 5 - HEALTH: Senate Panel Unites Behind Bill To Guard Access to Insurance |
| August 5 - House Passes Labor-HHS Bill, But Senate Outlook Unclear |
| August 5 - How the Accounts Work |
| August 5 - SECTION NOTES: Measure Would Ease Export Of Medical Products |
| August 12 - APPROPRIATIONS: Labor-HHS-Education |
| August 12 - HEALTH: Legal Issues Likely To Impede Clinton Plan on Teen Smoking |
| August 12 - PRESIDENTIAL NEWS CONFERENCE: Clinton Announces Action To Combat Teen Smoking |
| September 2 - APPROPRIATIONS: Labor, Health and Human Services, Education. |
| September 2 - CORRECTION: Fiscal 1996 Labor, HHS, Education Appropriations. |
| September 2 - ECONOMICS and FINANCE: Health deduction for the self-employed. |
| September 2 - SOCIAL POLICY: Health insurance. |
| September 2 - SOCIAL POLICY: Medicare and Medicaid. |
| September 16 - Many of GOP's Details Unknown As Fiscal Deadlines Loom |
| September 16 - THE BUDGET: Republicans Outline Medicare Plan To Hit $270 Billion Budget Target |
| September 23 - COVER STORY: Democrats Find Strength, Unity In Anger Over Medicare Plans |
| September 23 - CQ ROUNDTABLE: Beware Past History Of Medicare Cuts |
| September 23 - Labor-HHS-Education Spending (chart) |
| September 23 - RECONCILIATION: A Tale Two States |
| September 23 - RECONCILIATION: Managed Care May Save Money, But Hard To Say How Much |
| September 23 - Republicans Are Standing Firm On Giving Medicaid to States |
| September 23 - Reshaping Medicare Marketplace |
| September 23 - SECTION NOTES: House Bill Would Reauthorize Key Federal AIDS Program |
| September 23 - Spadework on Medicare Pays Off for GOP |
| September 23 - Under GOP Plan, States Decide How To Meet Health Needs of Needy |
| September 30 - APPROPRIATIONS: Democrats Stall Labor-HHS Bill |
| September 30 - Opponents Solidify Stands On Health Care Proposals |
| September 30 - RECONCILIATION: GOP Answers Lobby Effort |
| September 30 - RECONCILIATION: GOP Plows Ahead on Medicaid With Small Concessions |
| September 30 - RECONCILIATION: Senate Finance Plan Nicks Beneficiaries But Hits Medical Providers Hardest |
| September 30 - RECONCILIATION: Ways and Means' Medicare Proposal |
| September 30 - Squaring Off Over Health Care |
| October 7 - RECONCILIATION: Challenges From Chafee |
| October 7 - RECONCILIATION: Democrats Say GOP Surgery On Medicare Goes Too Far |
| October 14 - House Republicans Poised For Medicare Showdown |
| October 14 - RECONCILIATION: Interest Groups Take Sides |
| October 14 - RECONCILIATION: Medicaid Plan Hits Snags |
| October 14 - SECTION NOTES: Bill Gives States More Power To Treat Drug Abusers |
| October 14 - WHAT'S AHEAD: Medicare Overhaul Next for House |
| October 21 - Clinton Affirms He Will Veto GOP's Medicare Plan |
| October 21 - Historic House Medicare Vote Affirms GOP Determination |
| October 21 - RECONCILIATION: GOP Leaders Seek To Resolve Remaining Medicaid Issues |
| October 21 - SECTION NOTES: Medical Treatment for Gulf War Vets Is Extended by House |
| October 28 - RECONCILIATION: Leaders Tweak Medicaid Plan To Keep Votes in Line |
| October 28 - SECTION NOTES: House OKs Measure To Shield Elderly |
| November 4 - House, Senate Remain at Odds Over Family Planning Aid |
| November 4 - Medicare Conferees Face Some Major Differences |
| November 4 - RECONCILIATION: Down, but Not Out |
| November 11 - Conferees Work Furiously To Overhaul Medicare |
| November 11 - HEALTH: Panel OKs Bill To Strengthen Organ Donor Programs |
| November 11 - Medicaid Compromises Emerging |
| November 18 - GOP Scores on Medicare, But Foes Aren't Done |
| November 18 - HEALTH: Conference Agreement Entails Sweeping Medicare Changes |
| November 18 - RECONCILIATION: Key Medicaid Provisions |
| November 18 - RECONCILIATION: Scaled-Back Medicaid Savings Plan Emerges From Conference |
| November 25 - CORRECTIONS |
| December 2 - RECONCILIATION: Clinton, GOP Are Far Apart As Medicare Talks Begin |
| December 2 - RECONCILIATION: Medicaid Differences Portend Tough Budget Talks Ahead |
| December 2 - SECTION NOTES: Panel Votes To Repeal Law On Saccharin Warnings |
| December 9 - Administration Offers Details For Medicare Negotiations |
| December 9 - RECONCILIATION: Clinton Plan Does Little To End Big Medicaid Disputes |
| December 16 - SECTION NOTES: House Bill Would Give States Aid for DNA Testing |
| December 16 - SECTION NOTES: House Votes To Repeal Law On Saccharin Warnings |
| December 23 - PRESIDENTIAL VETO MESSAGE: Public Health and Environment Cited in Veto of VA-HUD Bill |
| December 23 - SECTION NOTES: VA Medical Projects OK'd By House Panel |
