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S.696
Sponsor: Sen Wellstone, Paul D.(introduced 3/24/1999)
Latest Major Action: 3/24/1999 Referred to Senate committee
Title: A bill to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to submit to Congress a plan to include as a benefit under the medicare program coverage of outpatient prescription drugs, and to provide for the funding of such benefit.
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3/24/1999:
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

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SUMMARY AS OF:
3/24/1999--Introduced.

Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage Act of 1999 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct a study for a report to Congress on establishment of an outpatient prescription drug benefit under Medicare (title XVIII of the Social Security Act (SSA)) that provides for full outpatient prescription drug coverage for Medicare beneficiaries.

Amends SSA title XVIII to: (1) provide for the transfer of Federal estate tax revenues to the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund under Medicare in order to offset the costs of the prescription drug benefit above; and (2) establish in the Trust Fund an expenditure account, the Outpatient Prescription Drug Account, to receive such Federal estate tax revenues, to pay for outpatient prescription drugs furnished under this Act.