Medicare Drugs for Seniors (MEDS) Act of 2006
Latest action · Feb 17, 2006 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedFeb 1, 2006
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Medicare Drugs for Seniors (MEDS) Act of 2006 -Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to replace the current part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) program, adopted by the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003, with a revised prescription drug benefit program under a new part D (Prescription Medicine Benefit for the Aged and Disabled) for all Medicare beneficiaries.
Provides for reductions in the price of prescription drugs for Medicare beneficiaries.
Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to: (1) revise requirements with respect to the commercial and personal importation of prescription drugs and the disposition of certain drugs denied admission; and (2) prescribe requirements with respect to Internet sales of prescription drugs.
Provides that if any federal agency or any non-profit entity undertakes federally funded health care research and development, and is to convey or provide a patent or other exclusive right to use such research and development for a drug or other health care technology, such agency or entity shall not make such conveyance or provide such patent or other right until the recipient first agrees to a reasonable pricing agreement with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, or the Secretary determines that the public interest is served by a waiver of the reasonable pricing agreement.
Sets forth Medigap transition requirements.
Cosponsors 19
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 1, 2006 to Feb 8, 2006; 17 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-CA | Barbara Lee | Original | Feb 1, 2006 |
| D-FL | Corrine Brown | Original | Feb 1, 2006 |
| D-OH | Dennis J. Kucinich | Original | Feb 1, 2006 |
| D-NJ | Donald M. Payne | Original | Feb 1, 2006 |
| D-CA | Fortney Pete Stark | Original | Feb 1, 2006 |
| D-MA | James P. McGovern | Original | Feb 1, 2006 |
| D-NY | Jerrold Nadler | Original | Feb 1, 2006 |
| R-MO | Jo Ann Emerson | Original | Feb 1, 2006 |
| D-MI | John Conyers, Jr. | Original | Feb 1, 2006 |
| D-MA | John F. Tierney | Original | Feb 1, 2006 |
| D-MA | John W. Olver | Original | Feb 1, 2006 |
| D-CA | Lynn C. Woolsey | Original | Feb 1, 2006 |
| D-NY | Major R. Owens | Original | Feb 1, 2006 |
| D-OH | Marcy Kaptur | Original | Feb 1, 2006 |
| D-NY | Maurice D. Hinchey | Original | Feb 1, 2006 |
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 Feb 1, 2006 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Feb 17, 2006 | |
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred Feb 1, 2006 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Feb 17, 2006Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Feb 1, 2006Introduced in House
- Feb 1, 2006Referred 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 replace the Medicare prescription drug benefit adopted by the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 with a revised and simplified prescription benefit program for all Medicare beneficiaries.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Medicare Drugs for Seniors (MEDS) Act of 2006
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Access to health care
- Administrative fees
- Administrative procedure
- Administrative remedies
- Allergies
- Annuities
- Australia
- Business records
- Canada
- Charitable contributions
- Civil actions and liability
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Civil service retirement
- Coinsurance
- Collection of accounts
- Commerce
- Competitive bidding
- Congress
- Congressional investigations
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Consumer discounts
- Consumer education
- Consumer protection
- Cost accounting
- Cost control
- Customs administration
- Damages
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Disabled
- Discrimination in insurance
- Discrimination in medical care
- Drug abuse
- Drug abuse treatment
- Drug advertising
- Drug approvals
- Drug industry
- Drug interactions
- Drug therapy
- Drugs
- East Asia
- Economics and Public Finance
- Electronic commerce
- Electronic data interchange
- Electronic government information
- Europe
- European Union
- Export controls
- Exports
- Federal advisory bodies
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Fines (Penalties)
- Foreign Trade and International Finance
- Generic drugs
- Gifts
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government publicity
- Government trust funds
- Governmental investigations
- Grievance procedures
- Health
- Health care fraud
- Health education
- Health insurance
- Home care services
- Housing and Community Development
- Identification devices
- Import restrictions
- Imports
- Injunctions
- Insulin
- Insurance companies
- Insurance premiums
- Intellectual property
- International Affairs
- Internet
- Japan
- Kidney diseases
- Labeling
- Labor and Employment
- Law
- Legal fees
- Legislation
- Liability (Law)
- Licenses
- Mail-order business
- Managed care
- Medicaid
- Medical economics
- Medical records
- Medicare
- Medigap
- New products
- New Zealand
- Oceania
- Old age, survivors and disability insurance
- Packaging
- Parties to actions
- Patent infringement
- Patents
- Pharmaceutical research
- Pharmacies
- Pharmacists
- Physical examinations
- Prescription pricing
- Price discrimination
- Product counterfeiting
- Product safety
- Public health
- Punitive damages
- Quality control
- Quality of care
- Railroad retirement plans
- Rebates
- Research and development
- Restrictive trade practices
- Retiree health benefits
- Right of privacy
- Rural health
- Sales promotion
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Smoking
- Social Welfare
- Standards
- Surety and fidelity
- Switzerland
- Tax incentives
- Taxation
- Telephone
- Terminal care
- Translating and interpreting
- Transportation and Public Works
- Treaties
- Web sites
- Welfare recipients
- Wholesale trade
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Feb 1, 2006Introduced in House
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