To expand assistance with coverage for legal immigrants under the Medicaid program and SCHIP to include citizens of the Freely Associated States.

amendment 980

(Purpose: To expand assistance with coverage for legal immigrants under the Medicaid program and SCHIP to include citizens of the Freely Associated States] On page 636, line 16, insert “and citizens of the Freely Associated States, which include the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau, lawfully residing in the United States” after “Act”. amendment 979 (Purpose: To ensure that current prescription drug benefits to medicare-eligible enrollees in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program will not be diminished) At the appropriate place, insert the following: SEC. . NEGOTIATIONS BY THE OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT. The Office of Personnel Management may not negotiate a prescription drug benefit for any health benefits plan under chapter 89 of title 5, United States Code, that would provide a prescription drug benefit to a medicare eligible enrollee in that plan that is of lesser actuarial value, based on 2003 constant dollars, than the prescription drug benefit available to a medicare eligible enrollee of such plan on the date of enactment of this Act.