PlainBillCongress, translated.Legislation. Context. Public interest.Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4941-4944)
Congressional Research Service
Version 00 · Introduced in Senate · May 11, 2005
Conquering Pain Act of 2005 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), to develop an Internet website on evidence-based practice guidelines for pain treatment.
Requires the administrators of Federal health programs to inform individuals that they should expect effective pain and system relief under such programs. Directs the Secretary to provide funds for special education projects to improve pain and symptom management. Amends Title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require that Medicare+Choice programs' coverage of pain and symptom management and performance evaluation of such management be disseminated to Medicare beneficiaries. Requires the Surgeon General to report on the state of pain and symptom management in the United States. Requires the Secretary, acting through the Public Health Service, to award grants to establish National Family Support Networks in Pain and Symptom Management. Requires the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPac) to report on financial, policy, and reimbursement barriers to providing pain and symptom management and palliative care. Requires the General Accounting Office (GAO) to survey health insurance providers to determine whether reimbursement policies inhibit access to pain and symptom management. Directs the Secretary: (1) to establish the Advisory Committee on Pain and Symptom Management; (2) acting through the Institute of Medicine, to report on the effects of controlled substance regulation and other barriers to patient access to effective care; (3) acting through the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to convene a national conference to discuss the translation of pain research into the delivery of health services; and (4) acting through the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), to provide for demonstration projects on pain and symptom management training.
People & committees
Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR] · D–OR
Legislative record
A procedural vote is different from passage. Passage in one chamber does not establish enactment. Explore the glossary.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4941-4944)
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4940-4941)
Introduced in Senate
Primary sources
Text links open the official source. We currently store references to these documents.
No related bills are listed in this snapshot. This does not establish whether the proposal has appeared in earlier Congresses.
Source last updated: Aug 15, 2025. Consult Congress.gov for the current record.
AI Conversation Starters
Choose a perspective, copy a prompt, and paste it into your preferred AI. Each prompt includes the bill version and available official source links, and asks for counterarguments as well as supporting evidence.
Analyze S.999 as objectively as possible. Explain its main provisions, who would be affected, possible benefits and harms, implementation, exceptions, and uncertainties. Present the strongest arguments for and against it, and identify evidence needed to assess its public impact.
Examine S.999 through a progressive lens, focusing on fairness, access, economic inequality, and effects on vulnerable communities. Explain potential benefits, costs, and unintended consequences. Consider the strongest counterarguments and distinguish stated goals from demonstrated outcomes.
Examine S.999 through a conservative lens, focusing on fiscal responsibility, institutional stability, federalism, and the scope of government. Explain potential benefits, costs, and unintended consequences. Consider the strongest counterarguments and any provisions that challenge this perspective.
Examine S.999 through a civil-liberties and limited-government lens. Consider individual rights, privacy, voluntary choice, accountability, and government power. Explain tradeoffs, possible safeguards, and the strongest counterarguments without assuming the proposal is beneficial or harmful.