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Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)

A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for an option for any citizen or permanent resident of the United States age 50 to 64 to buy into Medicare.

S. 5700 · Senate bill Health

A Democratic bill with 9 Democratic cosponsors · See all 9 cosponsors

Last activity — Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

In committee

Introduced and handed to a committee in the chamber it started in.

The committee holds it, and most bills are never heard from again. A hearing or a committee vote would be news; silence is the usual outcome, and it kills the bill without anyone voting against it.

Its path through Congress

  1. Introduced
  2. In Committee

What this bill would do

There is not enough information available about this bill to analyze at this time.