From the establishment of neighborhood health clinics 30 years ago, to the Americans with Disabilities Act, to greater funding for health research, to the
Kassebaum-Kennedy bill that protects people's healthcare when they change or lose their jobs, to children's health reform with Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT).
The result was the
Kassebaum-Kennedy Bill, entitled the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), signed into law (Public Law 104-191) by President Clinton on August 21, 1996.
Last August, Congress passed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (the
Kassebaum-Kennedy Bill) which restricts the use of pre-existing condition exclusions in employer-sponsored group health insurance policies.
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, better known as the
Kassebaum-Kennedy Bill, was the vehicle Congress chose to set a deadline for completing action on the privacy issue.
Both parties have hailed the
Kassebaum-Kennedy bill as guaranteeing Americans the right to keep their health insurance when they change or lose their jobs.
Concerning health insurance, it has passed the bipartisan
Kassebaum-Kennedy bill to correct two flagrant industry abuses-the excessive resort to exclusions for pre-existing conditions and the loss of coverage when employees lose or change their jobs.
The latest proposals before federal lawmakers are the
Kassebaum-Kennedy bill in the Senate and a similar though more sweeping measure recently passed in the House of Representatives.
Lots of positive political rhetoric was espoused before the 1996 election about the passage of the
Kassebaum-Kennedy Bill improving the portability of benefits and of mandating the option of a two-day hospital stay for a normal delivery.