HR 3707 · 108th Congress 2003–2005, ended

Medicare's Equitable Drugs for Seniors Act of 2004

Introduced Jan 20, 2004 Originated House Sponsor Dennis Moore D-KS

Latest action · Feb 3, 2004 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Progress

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IntroducedJan 20, 2004
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Medicare's Equitable Drugs for Seniors Act of 2004 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, as amended by the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003, to repeal provisions prohibiting the Secretary of Health and Human Services from: (1) interfering with the negotiations between drug manufacturers and pharmacies and prescription drug plan sponsors; and (2) requiring a particular formulary to institute a price structure for the reimbursement of covered Medicare part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) drugs.

Grants the Secretary instead, in order to ensure that beneficiaries enrolled under prescription drug plans and Medicare Advantage prescription drug plans pay the lowest possible price, authority similar to that of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Secretary of Defense, and the heads of other Federal agencies and departments that purchase prescription drugs in bulk to negotiate contracts with manufacturers of covered Medicare part D drugs, consistent with the requirements and in furtherance of the goals of providing quality care and containing costs under such part.

Cosponsors 175

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 20, 2004 to Jun 25, 2004; 5 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
R-IN	Dan Burton	Original	Jan 20, 2004
D-FL	Jim Davis	Original	Jan 20, 2004
R-MO	Jo Ann Emerson	Original	Jan 20, 2004
D-IL	Rahm Emanuel	Original	Jan 20, 2004
R-TN	Zach Wamp	Original	Jan 20, 2004
R-NC	Walter B. Jones		Jan 27, 2004
D-CA	Bob Filner		Feb 3, 2004
D-NC	Brad Miller		Feb 3, 2004
D-TX	Charles W. Stenholm		Feb 3, 2004
D-CA	Dennis A. Cardoza		Feb 3, 2004
D-NY	Eliot L. Engel		Feb 3, 2004
D-CA	Ellen O. Tauscher		Feb 3, 2004
D-CA	Fortney Pete Stark		Feb 3, 2004
D-MS	Gene Taylor		Feb 3, 2004
D-TN	Jim Cooper		Feb 3, 2004
D-TX	Jim Turner		Feb 3, 2004
D-NY	Joseph Crowley		Feb 3, 2004
D-PA	Joseph M. Hoeffel		Feb 3, 2004
D-MO	Karen McCarthy		Feb 3, 2004
D-IA	Leonard L. Boswell		Feb 3, 2004
D-TN	Lincoln Davis		Feb 3, 2004
D-NY	Major R. Owens		Feb 3, 2004
D-MN	Martin Olav Sabo		Feb 3, 2004
D-MA	Martin T. Meehan		Feb 3, 2004
D-AR	Mike Ross		Feb 3, 2004
D-CA	Mike Thompson		Feb 3, 2004
D-FL	Peter Deutsch		Feb 3, 2004
D-OH	Sherrod Brown		Feb 3, 2004
D-NY	Steve Israel		Feb 3, 2004
D-WI	Tammy Baldwin		Feb 3, 2004
D-MO	Wm. Lacy Clay		Feb 3, 2004
D-CA	Adam B. Schiff		Feb 4, 2004
D-MD	Albert Russell Wynn		Feb 4, 2004
D-FL	Allen Boyd		Feb 4, 2004
D-CA	Anna G. Eshoo		Feb 4, 2004
D-MA	Barney Frank		Feb 4, 2004
D-IN	Baron P. Hill		Feb 4, 2004
D-TN	Bart Gordon		Feb 4, 2004
I-VT	Bernard Sanders		Feb 4, 2004
D-WA	Brian Baird		Feb 4, 2004
D-NY	Carolyn B. Maloney		Feb 4, 2004
D-MI	Carolyn C. Kilpatrick		Feb 4, 2004
D-NY	Carolyn McCarthy		Feb 4, 2004
D-TX	Charles A. Gonzalez		Feb 4, 2004
D-NY	Charles B. Rangel		Feb 4, 2004
D-OR	Darlene Hooley		Feb 4, 2004
D-NC	David E. Price		Feb 4, 2004
R-IL	Donald A. Manzullo		Feb 4, 2004
D-VI	Donna M. Christensen		Feb 4, 2004
R-NE	Doug Bereuter		Feb 4, 2004
D-HI	Ed Case		Feb 4, 2004
D-TX	Eddie Bernice Johnson		Feb 4, 2004
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton		Feb 4, 2004
D-MD	Elijah E. Cummings		Feb 4, 2004
R-CA	Elton Gallegly		Feb 4, 2004
D-NJ	Frank Pallone, Jr.		Feb 4, 2004
D-NY	Gary L. Ackerman		Feb 4, 2004
D-WI	Gerald D. Kleczka		Feb 4, 2004
D-CA	Hilda L. Solis		Feb 4, 2004
D-VA	James P. Moran		Feb 4, 2004
D-CA	Jane Harman		Feb 4, 2004
D-IL	Jerry F. Costello		Feb 4, 2004
D-WA	Jim McDermott		Feb 4, 2004
D-CT	John B. Larson		Feb 4, 2004
D-MA	John W. Olver		Feb 4, 2004
D-AR	Marion Berry		Feb 4, 2004
D-ME	Michael H. Michaud		Feb 4, 2004
R-ID	Michael K. Simpson		Feb 4, 2004
D-NY	Michael R. McNulty		Feb 4, 2004
D-TX	Nick Lampson		Feb 4, 2004
R-MI	Nick Smith		Feb 4, 2004
D-NY	Nydia M. Velázquez		Feb 4, 2004
D-PA	Paul E. Kanjorski		Feb 4, 2004
D-VA	Robert C. "Bobby" Scott		Feb 4, 2004
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro		Feb 4, 2004
D-TX	Sheila Jackson Lee		Feb 4, 2004
D-NV	Shelley Berkley		Feb 4, 2004
R-NY	Sherwood Boehlert		Feb 4, 2004
D-CA	Susan A. Davis		Feb 4, 2004
D-ME	Thomas H. Allen		Feb 4, 2004
D-PA	Tim Holden		Feb 4, 2004
D-NY	Timothy H. Bishop		Feb 4, 2004
D-MD	Benjamin L. Cardin		Feb 10, 2004
D-GA	Denise L. Majette		Feb 10, 2004
R-MT	Denny Rehberg		Feb 10, 2004
D-MA	Edward J. Markey		Feb 10, 2004
R-GA	Jack Kingston		Feb 10, 2004
D-SC	John M. Spratt, Jr.		Feb 10, 2004
D-PA	John P. Murtha		Feb 10, 2004
D-KY	Ken Lucas		Feb 10, 2004
D-CA	Linda T. Sánchez		Feb 10, 2004
D-CA	Loretta Sanchez		Feb 10, 2004
D-OH	Marcy Kaptur		Feb 10, 2004
D-TX	Martin Frost		Feb 10, 2004
D-NY	Nita M. Lowey		Feb 10, 2004
D-RI	Patrick J. Kennedy		Feb 10, 2004
D-OR	Peter A. DeFazio		Feb 10, 2004
D-FL	Robert Wexler		Feb 10, 2004
D-TX	Silvestre Reyes		Feb 10, 2004
D-NM	Tom Udall		Feb 10, 2004
D-FL	Alcee L. Hastings		Feb 11, 2004
D-NY	Anthony D. Weiner		Feb 11, 2004
D-AL	Artur Davis		Feb 11, 2004
D-CA	Barbara Lee		Feb 11, 2004
D-IL	Bobby L. Rush		Feb 11, 2004
D-TX	Chris Bell		Feb 11, 2004
D-MD	Chris Van Hollen		Feb 11, 2004
D-TX	Gene Green		Feb 11, 2004
D-MO	Ike Skelton		Feb 11, 2004
D-SC	James E. Clyburn		Feb 11, 2004
D-MA	James P. McGovern		Feb 11, 2004
D-RI	James R. Langevin		Feb 11, 2004
D-MI	John Conyers, Jr.		Feb 11, 2004
D-IN	Julia Carson		Feb 11, 2004
D-MO	Richard A. Gephardt		Feb 11, 2004
D-AL	Robert E. (Bud) Cramer Jr.		Feb 11, 2004
D-TX	Ruben Hinojosa		Feb 11, 2004
D-OH	Stephanie Tubbs Jones		Feb 11, 2004
D-MI	Dale E. Kildee		Feb 25, 2004
D-AZ	Ed Pastor		Feb 25, 2004
D-IL	Lane Evans		Feb 25, 2004
D-NY	Louise McIntosh Slaughter		Feb 25, 2004
D-NY	Maurice D. Hinchey		Feb 25, 2004
D-CA	Robert T. Matsui		Feb 25, 2004
D-KY	Ben Chandler		Mar 3, 2004
R-VA	Bob Goodlatte		Mar 3, 2004
D-MD	C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger		Mar 3, 2004
D-TX	Chet Edwards		Mar 3, 2004
R-FL	Ginny Brown-Waite		Mar 3, 2004
D-CA	Grace F. Napolitano		Mar 3, 2004
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky		Mar 3, 2004
D-TX	Max Sandlin		Mar 3, 2004
D-MA	Richard E. Neal		Mar 3, 2004
D-MN	Betty McCollum		Mar 17, 2004
D-MA	Bill Delahunt		Mar 17, 2004
R-CA	Dana Rohrabacher		Mar 17, 2004
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer		Mar 17, 2004
D-CA	Henry A. Waxman		Mar 17, 2004
D-CA	Howard L. Berman		Mar 17, 2004
D-GA	Jim Marshall		Mar 17, 2004
D-CA	Joe Baca		Mar 17, 2004
D-CA	Lynn C. Woolsey		Mar 17, 2004
D-HI	Neil Abercrombie		Mar 17, 2004
D-PA	Robert A. Brady		Mar 17, 2004
R-AL	Spencer Bachus		Mar 17, 2004
D-OH	Ted Strickland		Mar 17, 2004
D-CA	Tom Lantos		Mar 17, 2004
R-MN	Gil Gutknecht		Apr 2, 2004
D-IL	Luis V. Gutierrez		Apr 2, 2004
D-WI	Ron Kind		Apr 2, 2004
D-OR	David Wu		Apr 21, 2004
D-NC	Frank W. Ballance Jr.		Apr 21, 2004
R-MN	Jim Ramstad		Apr 21, 2004
R-TN	John J. Duncan, Jr.		Apr 21, 2004
D-CA	Lucille Roybal-Allard		Apr 21, 2004
D-IN	Peter J. Visclosky		Apr 21, 2004
D-MI	Sander M. Levin		Apr 21, 2004
D-OK	Brad Carson		May 12, 2004
D-FL	Corrine Brown		May 12, 2004
R-VA	Frank R. Wolf		May 12, 2004
D-MN	James L. Oberstar		May 12, 2004
D-CA	Lois Capps		May 12, 2004
D-PA	Michael F. Doyle		May 12, 2004
D-CA	Sam Farr		May 12, 2004
D-MI	Bart Stupak		Jun 17, 2004
D-CA	George Miller		Jun 17, 2004
D-NY	Jerrold Nadler		Jun 17, 2004
D-MA	John F. Tierney		Jun 17, 2004
D-FL	Kendrick B. Meek		Jun 17, 2004
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva		Jun 17, 2004
D-AR	Vic Snyder		Jun 17, 2004
D-IL	Danny K. Davis		Jun 25, 2004
D-CA	Diane E. Watson		Jun 25, 2004
D-WV	Nick J. Rahall II		Jun 25, 2004
D-SD	Stephanie Herseth Sandlin		Jun 25, 2004

Committees 2

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Energy and Commerce Committee	Referred Jan 20, 2004
	Health Subcommittee	Referred Feb 3, 2004
House	Ways and Means Committee	Referred Jan 20, 2004
	Health Subcommittee	Referred Jan 23, 2004

Actions 4

Everything that happened, newest first.

Feb 3, 2004Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Jan 23, 2004Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Jan 20, 2004Introduced in House
Jan 20, 2004Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to negotiate fair prices for Medicare prescription drugs on behalf of Medicare beneficiaries.
Short Titles as Introduced: Medicare's Equitable Drugs for Seniors Act of 2004

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.

Text 1

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Jan 20, 2004Introduced in House

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