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Calendar No. 555
110TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session SENATE 110-255
MEDICARE, MEDICAID, AND SCHIP INDIAN HEALTH CARE
IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 2007
JANuARY 8, 2008.-Ordered to be printed
Filed, under authority of the order of the Senate of December 19, 2007
Mr. BAUCUS, from the Committee on Finance,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 2532]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Finance, having had under consideration an
original bill (S. 2532), to amend titles XVIII, XIX, and XXI of the
Social Security Act to improve health care provided to Indians
under the Medicare, Medicaid, and State Children's Health Insur-
ance Programs, and for other purposes, reports favorably thereon
and recommends that the bill do pass.
I. LEGISLATIVE HISTORY
The Finance Committee passed S. 2532, the Medicare, Medicaid,
and SCHIP Indian Health Care Improvement Act of 2007 on Sep-
tember 12, 2007. S. 2532 is an original bill encompassing provi-
sions of S. 1200, the Indian Health Care Improvement Act
(IHCIA), that fall into the Finance Committee's jurisdiction-i.e.,
issues related to Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP. The IHCIA (S.
1200) was reported favorably out of the Senate Indian Affairs Com-
mittee on May 10, 2007. It is the intention of the Committee that
the provisions of S. 2532 be incorporated into S. 1200 when it is
considered by the full Senate.
S. 1200 would authorize the appropriation of such sums as nec-
essary through 2016 for the Indian Health Care Improvement Act,
the primary authorizing legislation for the Indian Health Service
(IHS). The bill also contains specific authorizations for a program
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