Economic Issues

  • Hill Burton Act Passed

  • Federal Security Agency made a cabinet level agency

  • Revenue Act of 1954

  • Federal Employees Health Benefit Plan

  • Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program begins

  • Employee Retirement Income Security Act passed

  • COBRA Passes

  • Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act Passed

  • Prescription Drug Benefit Added to Medicare

  • Health Security Act is introduced

  • Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Passed

  • Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act Passed

  • Deficit Reduction Act

  • mandate that everyone must have insurance

  • passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,