US Congress Senate Bill 2148 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 32-2)
Status: Introduced on October 7 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-10-07 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Pending: Senate Finance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Protecting Medicare Beneficiaries Act of 2015 This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to: (1) prevent 2016 increases to Medicare Part B premiums and deductibles for enrollees, and (2) authorize federal funding to offset the corresponding reduction in aggregate monthly premiums. Under current law, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services must annually determine the monthly actuarial rate upon which Part B premiums and deductibles are based. The bill temporarily freezes that rate at the 2015 level for enrollees, effectively preventing increases to premiums and deductibles for those enrollees in 2016. (Current law already protects Part B enrollees whose benefits are deducted from their Social Security benefits from premium increases that would result in a smaller Social Security check.)

Protecting Medicare Beneficiaries Act of 2015

Sen. Ron Wyden [D-OR]	Sen. Michael Bennet [D-CO]	Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-OH]	Sen. Benjamin Cardin [D-MD]
Sen. Robert Casey [D-PA]	Sen. Robert Menendez [D-NJ]	Sen. Patty Murray [D-WA]	Sen. Bill Nelson [D-FL]
Sen. Debbie Stabenow [D-MI]	Sen. Charles Schumer [D-NY]	Sen. Bernard Sanders [I-VT]	Sen. Tammy Baldwin [D-WI]
Sen. Patrick Leahy [D-VT]	Sen. Thomas Carper [D-DE]	Sen. Tom Udall [D-NM]	Sen. Mazie Hirono [D-HI]
Sen. Angus King [I-ME]	Sen. Barbara Mikulski [D-MD]	Sen. Christopher Coons [D-DE]	Sen. Al Franken [D-MN]
Sen. Jeff Merkley [D-OR]	Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D-RI]	Sen. Jack Reed [D-RI]	Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]
Sen. Elizabeth Warren [D-MA]	Sen. Barbara Boxer [D-CA]	Sen. Christopher Murphy [D-CT]	Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D-CT]
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen [D-NH]	Sen. Jon Tester [D-MT]	Sen. Cory Booker [D-NJ]	Sen. Edward Markey [D-MA]
Sen. Gary Peters [D-MI]	Sen. Martin Heinrich [D-NM]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-10-07	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

HB3696 (Related) 2015-10-09 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/2148/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/s2148/BILLS-114s2148is.pdf