A bill to amend titles II and XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide medicare coverage for disabled individuals under age 65 from the first month of their entitlement to benefits based on disability, in cases where the individuals involved are becoming reentitled to such coverage after a previous coverage period which ended during the preceding 5 years.

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Amends titles II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) and XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide hospitalization insurance under part A of title XVIII for individuals under the age of 65 who were previously eligible under part A but whose previous entitlement terminated within the 60 month period preceding the first month in which such individual is under the disability on the basis of which such individual currently claims entitlement to benefits. Eliminates for such individuals the requirement that they must have been entitled to specified benefits for at least 24 consecutive months in order to be eligible for hospitalization insurance benefits.

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 19 March 1979

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