Budget bills and medicare policy: The politics of the BBA

Health Affairs

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 37-47

  Kahn III, Charles N ^a,b   Kuttner, Hanns ^c,d  

^a America's Health Insurance Plans   (United States)

^b House ways/Means Subcommittee Hlth ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d Health and Social Services Policy

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BUDGET; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMICS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MANAGEMENT; MEDICARE; POLITICS; UNITED STATES;

BUDGETS; FINANCING, GOVERNMENT; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; MEDICARE; POLICY MAKING; POLITICS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032607074     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.18.1.37     Document Type: Article

References (4)

1. N. Gingrich, "Renewing America by Transforming the Federal Government: The House Republican Challenge, April-May 1995" (Briefing package distributed to Republican members of the House of Representatives, 1995).
2. Ibid.
3. Newt Gingrich, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, remarks to Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association Conference, Washington, D.C., 24 October 1995.
4. Many of the anti-fraud and abuse provisions of the 1995 BBA became law as part of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996, the one major piece of health legislation to become law in 1996.