Healthcare

Only through a concerted effort can we ensure that the victims of this disease receive the highest quality care.

We need to make sure that we protect the Medicare program, also Medicaid.

I am returning, without my approval, H.R. 5235, the Uniformed Services Health Professionals Special Pay Act of 1980.

National Health Insurance is a crucial step.

When used properly, today's drugs can work miracles that were unimaginable only a short time ago.

Our great veterans hospitals must be the finest that medical skill, compassion, and dedication can create.

H.R. 2735 significantly improves the scope of medical care services available to our Nation's disabled veterans and their families.

I believe H.R. 2735 can aid the administration in continuing to provide high quality medical care for our Nation's veterans.

Arthritis, diabetes, and diseases of the digestive tract affect millions of Americans.

He has left us after a full and rich life and a dedicated medical career during which he treated over 12,000 people, rich and poor, famous and obscure.

The fight against sickle cell anemia continues to be a high priority for our Government

No American family should be denied access to adequate medical care because of inability to pay.

Medicare coverage will be extended to cover 100 percent and not just 80 percent of home health services.

Steps will be taken to increase the quality and the appropriateness of services which are paid for by Medicare and Medicaid.

It extends Medicare coverage for kidney transplants and renal dialysis--the cost of which is beyond most individuals--to workers under social security, and their dependents.

I will urge the Congress to appropriate whatever funds are needed for Federal drug law enforcement and to build the clinics needed to treat those addicts who seek help.

I say that an initiative that will have Russian doctors and Chinese doctors and American doctors working together is good, because the genius that will find the answer to that dread disease and other diseases, it may not be in America, it…

IT IS with special pleasure that I am today signing into law the National Sickle Cell Anemia Control Act.