S.Amdt. 206

SA 206. Mr. BAUCUS (for himself and Mr. Bingaman) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 18, setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2006 and including the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2005 and 2007 through 2010; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

On page 40, after line 8, insert the following:

SEC. __. RESERVE FUND FOR INDIAN HEALTH CARE.

The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget may revise the aggregates, allocations, functional totals, and other appropriate levels and limits in this resolution upon enactment of legislation that achieves savings under the medicare program under title XVIII of the Social Security Act by reducing overpayments to Medicare Advantage plans (such as legislation that requires the full amount of savings from the implementation of risk adjusted payments to Medicare Advantage plans to accrue to the medicare program) and uses such savings to reduce the deficit in fiscal year 2006 and for the period 2006 through 2010 and to strengthen and improve health care for Native Americans and Alaska Natives, by extending expiring provisions related to health care for Indians through the medicare program, by ensuring that medicare Part D plans contract with the Indian Health Service or Tribal pharmacies, including Urban Indian Program pharmacies, and by allowing the Indian Health Service to provide financial assistance for patients who receive prescription drug coverage under medicare Part D.