Date: August 3, 1983
Subject: Unemployed Health Insurance
Description: Passage of the bill to authorize $4 billion in fiscal 1983-85 for block grants to states for health insurance plans for the unemployed, and for grants to hospitals caring for needy, uninsured people. The bill also required certain changes in employment-based private group health insurance plans to continue coverage for laid-off workers. The bill created, in effect, a brand new entitlement program.
Result: Bill Passed, 252-174
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