 January 2 - HEALTH CARE: New Strategy, Old Disputes |
| January 9 - Clinton's Health Care Tax Credit Has a Familiar Ring to GOP |
| January 9 - Commission Drafts Plans To Ensure Medicare's Long-Term Survival |
| January 9 - SOCIAL POLICY: Medicare Agency's Struggles Try Congress' Patience |
| January 16 - HEALTH: Managed Care Overhaul Shows New Signs of Life |
| January 16 - New Generation of Industry Lobbyists Fights To Preserve Victory |
| January 30 - SOCIAL POLICY: Sen. Breaux Angles for Support For Medicare Restructure Plan As Panel's Deadline Approaches |
| February 6 - From the Editor |
| February 13 - HEALTH: Texas' HMO Liability Law: The Jury Is Still Out |
| February 13 - SOCIAL POLICY: Overpayments By Medicare Fall 45 Percent |
| February 20 - From the Editor |
| February 20 - HEALTH: Can Congress Cure Disparities In Organ Transplant System? |
| February 27 - AARP Declares War on Fraud |
| February 27 - HEALTH: Medicare Panel a Year Later: Deadlocked at Deadline |
| March 6 - HEALTH: Insurers Attack Proposals To Give Doctors More Control Over Treatment Decisions |
| March 6 - Measure Seeks To Protect Health Coverage for Disabled |
| March 6 - ONE MEMBER'S CRUSADE: Back on the Track Of Wine Warning Labels |
| March 13 - Bill Would Bar Nursing Homes From Evicting Medicaid Patients |
| March 13 - Medicare Panel's Surprise Sticking Point: The Role of Budget Surpluses |
| March 13 - REGULATION: Protecting Medical Records: Privacy vs. 'Progress' |
| March 20 - A Consummate Deal-Maker Comes Away Empty-Handed |
| March 20 - Correction: Family Planning |
| March 20 - HEALTH: Debate on Managed Care Legislation Diverges Along Familiar Lines |
| March 20 - MEDICARE: One Vote Short, Commission To Overhaul Medicare Disbands |
| March 20 - REGULATION: Senate Rejects Federal Claim To Tobacco Settlement Money, Undeterred by Veto Threat |
| March 20 - Senate Spotlights Nursing Home Transgressions, Deficiencies |
| April 3 - HEALTH: Health Care Forces Fight To Frame the Debate |
| April 3 - SOCIAL POLICY: Better Outlook for Medicare, Social Security Could Further Slow Overhaul Efforts |
| April 17 - HEALTH: Doctors Look for Union Label |
| April 17 - HEALTH: Lawmakers Envision a Medicare System Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts |
| April 17 - Managed Care Plans Criticized |
| April 24 - HEALTH: Benefits Backed For Disabled Workers |
| April 24 - MEDICARE: Medicare Prescription Benefit Pushed |
| May 1 - HEALTH: Debate on Patients' Protection Bursts Into Open as Rep. Ganske Gives GOP Draft to Reporters |
| May 1 - HEALTH: Medical Privacy Legislation Snarled by Disagreements Over State Pre-emption, Patient Consent |
| May 1 - MEDICARE: Drug Lobby on Medicare Bills: First, Do No Harm |
| May 1 - REGULATION: Clinton, Tobacco Foes Cheer Court's Decision To Hear Case on FDA's Authority |
| May 8 - From the Editor |
| May 8 - HEALTH: GOP, Industry Try To Shift Attention From 'Patient Rights' to Aid for Uninsured |
| May 8 - HEALTH: Progress or Bust: The Push To Double NIH's Budget |
| May 15 - HEALTH: Teaching Hospitals Lobby To Block Medicare Cuts |
| May 15 - Other Groups' Wish List |
| May 22 - HEALTH: Managed Care Legislation Stalled By Dispute Over Whether To Package Patient Protections With Tax Breaks |
| May 22 - HEALTH: Reaching for Compromise, Senators Stitch Together New Medical Privacy Bill |
| May 29 - HEALTH: Aid for Working Disabled Snags Again as Gramm Balks Over Tax Implications |
| May 29 - HEALTH: Medicare Overhaul Adrift As Senate Panel Delays Action Until Clinton Submits a Plan |
| May 29 - HEALTH: Right to Sue, Other Provisions Stall Senate Medical Privacy Bill; Deadline Extension Floated in House |
| June 5 - HEALTH: House Republican Pushes Measure To Bar Change in Organ Allocations |
| June 19 - HEALTH: Managed Care Legislation a Year Later: Republicans Stare Back at the Future |
| June 19 - HEALTH: Senate Panel Again Fails To Reach Compromise On Medical Privacy Bill |
| June 19 - Retooled Assisted-Suicide Bill Wins Over Some Health Officials |
| June 19 - SOCIAL POLICY: House Is Left To Find Offsets As Senate Passes Bill Expanding Health Benefits for Working Disabled |
| June 26 - APPROPRIATIONS: Managed Care Initiative Slows Senate Consideration Of Agriculture Spending Bill |
| June 26 - Coverage for Drugs Urged |
| June 26 - HEALTH: Democrats Vie With GOP For Voters' Allegiance Under 'Patients' Rights' Banner |
| July 3 - HEALTH: Clinton Pushes To Salvage Partial Victory on Health Care |
| July 3 - HEALTH: Clinton's Medicare Drug Subsidy Plan Is Criticized for Scope and Cost |
| July 3 - Medicare Plans Compared |
| July 10 - HEALTH: Senate Braces for Managed Care Debate, With Lott Maneuvering To Derail Democratic Amendments |
| July 17 - Health Care Bill Highlights |
| July 17 - HEALTH: Parties Concur on the Need, But Remain Far Apart on How To Add Medicare Drug Benefit |
| July 17 - Insurers' Latest Advertising Blitz May Outdo 'Harry and Louise' |
| July 17 - Lesson Learned on Gun Control Vote, Senate GOP Unites on Patients' Rights |
| July 17 - Managed Care Struggle Shifts To Unpredictable House |
| July 24 - HEALTH: GOP Persists In Opposing Transplant Plan |
| July 24 - House GOP Leaders Struggle To Bridge Party's Divisions Over Managed Care Overhaul |
| July 31 - Correction: Family Planning |
| July 31 - HEALTH: Managed Care Fight Finds GOP Torn Between Doctors, Insurers |
| July 31 - Labor-HHS Bill Pays the Price In Hastert's Pre-Recess Drive |
| August 7 - HEALTH: House Factions Coalesce Behind Two Managed Care Bills |
| August 14 - HEALTH: Accentuating the Negative In Managed Care Overhaul |
| September 4 - HEALTH: Right To Sue Remains Toughest Issue In Debate Over Managed Care Bills |
| September 4 - Twenty-One Who Dared |
| September 11 - Assisted Suicide Measure Slows in House Judiciary |
| September 11 - Clinton Presses For Privacy Law |
| September 11 - HEALTH: New GOP Managed Care Bill Puts Hastert in Predicament |
| September 18 - HEALTH: Employers Ratchet Up Opposition To Managed Care Legislation |
| September 18 - SOCIAL POLICY: Assisted-Suicide Ban Approved By House Judiciary Panel; Senate Filibuster Threatened |
| September 18 - SOCIAL POLICY: Medicare Reinvention Recedes |
| September 18 - SOCIAL POLICY: Parties Tailor Hill Agendas To Win Seniors' Loyalty |
| September 25 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Panel Moves Labor-HHS Bill With Accounting Gimmicks Galore |
| September 25 - Chart: House Health Care Bills Compared |
| September 25 - HEALTH: House Nears Managed Care Vote With GOP Leaders Still in a Bind |
| September 25 - SOLITARY JOURNEY: John Shadegg, Man in the Middle Of Managed Care Liability Debate |
| September 25 - VETERANS' AFFAIRS: Health Care Expansion For Vets Passes |
| October 2 - APPROPRIATIONS: Labor-HHS Bill Again on Course For Collision With Clinton |
| October 2 - Doctors and GOP, Longtime Allies, Part Company on Managed Care |
| October 2 - GOP's Health Care Tax Cuts |
| October 2 - Hitting Them Where They Live |
| October 2 - House Passes Fetal Protection Bill, But Abortion Foes Throw Weight Behind Other Legislative Priorities |
| October 2 - MANAGED CARE: GOP Leaders in Tight Spot As Managed Care Vote Nears |
| October 2 - The Many Faces of 'Reform' |
| October 9 - ASSISTED SUICIDES: MDs and the GOP: More Tension Ahead? |
| October 9 - Chart: Key Managed Care Provisions |
| October 9 - HEALTH: GOP's Fragile Unity Fractures In Managed Care Decision |
| October 9 - HEALTH: Liability: Courts in the Lead |
| October 9 - HEALTH: Momentum, for the Moment |
| October 9 - Medical Savings Accounts, Insurance Tax Breaks Pass House |
| October 9 - UNFINISHED BUSINESS: Legislative Remedies for Republicans' Managed Care Headache |
| October 16 - BACK-SCRATCHING: Seeing a Political Advantage Through a Budget Loophole |
| October 16 - Bill To Ban Assisted Suicide Heads to House Floor |
| October 16 - HEALTH: House, Senate Make Progress on Bills To Rescind Some Medicare Cuts While Avoiding Major Overhaul |
| October 16 - HEALTH: Senate Leaders Dig In Heels Against Making Concessions To House Managed Care Bill |
| October 16 - HEALTH: Ways and Means Approves Expansion of Disability Benefits As Search for Offsets Continues |
| October 16 - Organ Transplant Bill Approved |
| October 23 - APPROPRIATIONS: Negotiators Search for Consensus On D.C. Policy Riders, Other Items In Labor-HHS Spending Measure |
| October 23 - HEALTH: Conferees Face Struggle To Pay For Popular Measure To Expand Health Benefits for Disabled |
| October 23 - HEALTH: HHS Sets Out Modified Rules For Giving Sickest Patients Priority for Organ Transplants |
| October 23 - HEALTH: House, Senate Panels Approve Bills To Rescind Some Medicare Cuts, But Democrats Object to Financing |
| October 30 - APPROPRIATIONS: House Passes Labor-HHS Bill, Looks to Post-Veto Revisions |
| October 30 - Bill To Expand Cancer Treatment For Low-Income Women Moves |
| October 30 - Bills To Rescind Cuts Advance |
| October 30 - HEALTH: Clinton Issues Medical Privacy Guidelines |
| October 30 - HEALTH: Managed Care Conference Yet To Meet |
| October 30 - SOCIAL POLICY: Democrats Set Stage for a New Attempt To Enact Medicare Prescription Coverage |
| October 30 - SOCIAL POLICY: Doctor-Assisted Suicide Ban On Sen. Nickles' Priority List Following Passage by House |
| November 6 - APPROPRIATIONS: Tough Negotiations Begin Over Teachers, NIH Funding In Vetoed Labor-HHS Bill |
| November 6 - Conferees Near Deal on Health Aid to Disabled Workers |
| November 6 - HEALTH: Hastert's Choice of Conferees Diminishes Prospects for Survival Of House's Managed Care Bill |
| November 6 - HEALTH: House Passes Bill To Rescind Cuts In Medicare Provider Payments; Priority Treatment Likely in Senate |
| November 13 - APPROPRIATIONS: Labor-HHS Pact Takes Shape |
| November 13 - Business and Society Notes |
| November 13 - Drug Patent Extension Blocked In Senate; Future Uncertain |
| November 13 - HEALTH: Final Agreement Appears Near On Bill To Rescind Some Cuts In Medicare Provider Payments |
| November 13 - SOCIAL POLICY: Disabled Workers' Health Bill Delayed as Conferees Address Kennedy's and Nickles' Concerns |
| November 20 - HEALTH: Lawmakers' Medicare Remedy Gives Providers Partial Relief |
| November 20 - SOCIAL POLICY: Disability Bill's Advocates Rewrite the Book on Lobbying |
| November 20 - SOCIAL POLICY: Lott, Nickles Act To Delay New Organ Allocation Rules For a Minimum of 90 Days |
| November 20 - Veterans' Health Care Bill Clears |
| November 27 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Appropriations - Labor, Health and Human Services, Education |
| November 27 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Health - Disability |
| November 27 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Health - Managed Care Tax Credits |
| November 27 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Health - Medical Privacy |
| November 27 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Health - Medicare BBA Changes |
| November 27 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Health - Nursing Homes |
| November 27 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Health - Organ Transplants |
| November 27 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Veterans' Affairs - Veterans Health Care |
| December 4 - Hearings Planned on Deaths From Medical Errors |
| December 4 - SWEET REVENGE?: AMA Stung by Bliley's Tactics |
| December 31 - MANAGED CARE: Business Prepares To Swallow a Bitter Pill |
