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HR 3 - Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2007
To
amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for human embryonic
stem cell research. |
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HR 4 & S 3 - Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation
Act of 2007
To
amend part D of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to require
the Secretary of Health and Human Services to negotiate lower
covered part D drug prices on behalf of Medicare beneficiaries. |
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HR 15 - National Health Insurance Act
To
provide a program of national health insurance, and for other
purposes. |
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S 54 - Nursing School Clinics Act of 2007
A
bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide
for coverage of services provided by nursing school clinics under
State medicaid programs. |
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S 59 - Medicaid Advanced Practice Nurses and Physician Assistants
Access Act of 2007
A
bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to improve
access to advanced practice nurses and physician assistants under
the Medicaid Program. |
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S73 - Registered Nurse Safe Staffing Act of 2007
A
bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide
for patient protection by establishing minimum nurse staffing,
ratios at Medicare providers, and for other purposes.
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S 137 - Preserving Medicare for All Act of 2007
A
bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide
additional beneficiary protections. |
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S 158 - Access to Affordable Health Care Act
A
bill to expand access to affordable health care and to strengthen
the health care safety net and make health care services more
available in rural and underserved areas. |
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S 242 - Pharmaceutical Market Access and Drug Safety Act of 2007
A
bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect
to the importation of prescription drugs, and for other purposes. |
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S 250 - Medicare Enhancements for Needed Drugs Act
of 2007
To
reduce the costs of prescription drugs for Medicare beneficiaries
and to guarantee access to comprehensive prescription drug coverage
under part D of the Medicare program, and for other purposes.
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S 251 - Pharmaceutical Market Access Act of 2007
A
bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect
to the importation of prescription drugs, and for other purposes. |
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S 325 - Health Partnership Act
A
bill to provide for innovation in health care through State initiatives
that expand coverage and access and improve quality and efficiency
in the health care system. |
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HR 378 - Nurse and Patient Safety & Protection Act of 2007
To
direct the Secretary of Labor to issue an occupational safety
and health standard to reduce injuries to patients, direct-care
registered nurses, and other health care providers by establishing
a safe patient handling standard. |
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HR 457 - Cures Can Be Found Act of 2007
To
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide credits against
income tax for qualified stem cell research, the storage of qualified
stem cells, and the donation of umbilical cord blood. |
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HR 493 & S 358 - Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act
of 2007
To
prohibit discrimination on the basis of genetic information with
respect to health insurance and employment. |
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HR 677 - Nursing School Capacity Act of 2007
To
provide for a study by the Institute of Medicine of the National
Academy of Sciences to identify constraints encountered by schools
of nursing in admitting and graduating the number of nurses sufficient
to meet the health care needs of the United States, and for other
purposes.
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HR 772 & S 446 - Nurse Education, Expansion, and
Development Act of 2007
A
bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize capitation
grants to increase the number of nursing faculty and students,
and for other purposes.
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S 787 - A bill to impose a 2-year moratorium on implementation
of a proposed rule relating to the Federal-State financial partnerships
under Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program |
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806 - To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prohibit
the marketing of authorized generic drugs
To
amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prohibit the
marketing of authorized generic drugs.
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HR 1038 & S 623 - Access to Life-Saving Medicine
Act
To
amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the licensing
of comparable and interchangeable biological products, and for
other purposes.
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S 1062 - William H. Frist Gift of Life Congressional
Medal Act
To
establish a congressional commemorative medal for organ donors
and their families.
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S 1218 - Medicare for All Act
A
bill to provide quality, affordable health care for all Americans.
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HR 1245 & S 432 - Kidney Disease Educational Benefits
Act of 2007
To
amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide coverage
for kidney disease education services under the Medicare Program,
and for other purposes.
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HR 1193 & S 691 - Kidney Care Quality and Education
Act of 2007
A
bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve
the benefits under the Medicare Program for beneficiaries with
kidney disease, and for other purposes.
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1408 - Health Information Technology Act of 2007
A
bill to improve quality in health care by providing incentives
for adoption of modern information technology.
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HR
1432 & S 316 - Preserve Access to Affordable Generics Act
To
prohibit brand name drug companies from compensating generic drug
companies to delay the entry of a generic drug into the market.
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HR 1536 - Prescription Coverage Now Act of 2007
To
amend part D of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to assist
low-income individuals in obtaining subsidized prescription drug
coverage under the Medicare prescription drug program by expediting
the application and qualification process and by revising the
resource standards used to determine eligibility for such subsidies,
and for other purposes.
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HR 1644 & S 969 - Re-Empowerment of Skilled and
Professional Employees and Construction Tradeworkers (RESPECT)
Act
To
amend the National Labor Relations Act to clarify the definition
of `supervisor' for purposes of such Act.
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S
1947 - Continuing the Advancement of Quality Improvement Act of
2007
A
bill to amend title XI of the Social Security Act to improve the
quality improvement organization (QIO) program.
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HR
2122 - Safe Nursing and Patient Care Act of 2007
To
amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for patient
protection by limiting the number of mandatory overtime hours
a nurse may be required to work in certain providers of services
to which payments are made under the Medicare Program.
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HR
2184 - Enhanced Health Care Value for All Act of 2007
To
amend the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization
Act of 2003 to expand comparative effectiveness research and to
increase funding for such research to improve the value of health
care.
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S 2306 - A bill to amend the National Organ Transplant
Act to clarify that kidney paired donation and kidney list donation
do not involve the transfer of a human organ for valuable consideration |
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S 2499 - Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007
A bill to amend
titles XVIII, XIX, and XXI of the Social Security Act to extend
provisions under the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP programs, and
for other purposes. |
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S 2785 - Save Medicare Act of 2008
A
bill to amend title XVIII of the Security Act to preserve access
to physicians' services under the Medicare program.
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HR
2794 - America's Partnership for Nursing Education Act of 2007
To
amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize grants to increase
the number of qualified nursing faculty, and for other purposes.
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HR 2900 & S 1082 - Food and Drug Administration
Revitalization Act
An
act to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and cosmetic Act and the
Public Health Service Act to reauthorize drug and device user
fees and ensure the safety of medical products, and for other
purposes.
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HR
2991 - Independent Health Record Trust Act of 2007
To
improve the availability of health information and the provision
of health care by encouraging the creation, use, and maintenance
of lifetime electronic health records of individuals in independent
health record trusts and by providing a secure and privacy-protected
framework in which such records are made available only by the
affirmative consent of such individuals and are used to build
a nationwide health information technology infrastructure.
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