Comprehensive Health Care
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Establishing the budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2014 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2015 through 2023. [HCR-25]
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Sets forth the congressional budget for the federal government for FY2013, including the appropriate budgetary levels for FY2015-FY2023. Title I: Recommended Levels and Amounts - (Sec. 101) Lists recommended budgetary levels and amounts for FY2013-FY2023 with respect to: (1) federal revenues, (2) new budget authority, (3) budget outlays, (4) deficits, (5) public debt, and (6) debt held by the public. (Sec. 102) Lists the appropriate levels of new budget authority, outlays, and administrative expenses for the Social Security Administration (SSA),
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Sponsored by: Rep. Paul D. Ryan
Measure Laid Before Senate By Unanimous Consent. (consideration: Cr S7532) on 10/16/2013
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Religious Freedom Tax Repeal Act of 2013 [HB-973]
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Religious Freedom Tax Repeal Act of 2013 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt an employer opposed by reason of adherence to a religious belief or moral conviction from the tax penalty imposed for failure of a group health plan to cover required women's preventive care and screenings. Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to prohibit the Secretary of Labor from bringing an action against a plan to enforce any requirement to provide such coverage to which an employer is opposed by reason of adherence to a religious
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Sponsored by: Rep. Gus M. Bilirakis
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health, Employment, Labor, And Pensions. on 04/23/2013
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Health Care Conscience Rights Act [HB-940]
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Health Care Conscience Rights Act - Amends title I of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to declare that nothing in such title shall require an individual to purchase individual health insurance coverage that includes coverage of an abortion or other item or service to which the individual has a moral or religious objection, or prevent an issuer from offering or issuing, to that individual, individual coverage excluding such item or service. Makes similar denials about requiring a sponsor to sponsor, purchase, or provide such coverage,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Ted Poe
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 03/12/2013
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To amend subtitle B of title I of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to extend the temporary high-risk insurance pool program to the territories. [HB-81]
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Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to extend to U.S. territories a program requiring the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a temporary high risk health insurance pool program to provide health insurance coverage to eligible individuals with a preexisting condition.
Sponsored by: Rep. Donna M. Christensen
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 01/04/2013
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Access to Insurance for All Americans Act [HB-779]
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Access to Insurance for All Americans Act - Repeals the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the health care provisions of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, effective as of the enactment of such Act and provisions. Restores provisions of law amended by such Act and provisions. Directs the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to administer a health insurance program for non-federal employees and to apply to such program the provisions governing the federal employee health insurance program to the greatest extent
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Sponsored by: Rep. Darrell E. Issa
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health, Employment, Labor, And Pensions. on 04/23/2013
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To repeal the annual fee on health insurance providers enacted by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. [HB-763]
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Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to eliminate the annual fee on health insurance providers set to be imposed beginning on January 1, 2013.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ted Poe
Re-referral Of H.r. 763 - Mr. Gardner Asked Unanimous Consent That H.r. 763 Be Re-referred To The Committee On Ways And Means, And In Addition To The Committee On Energy And Commerce. on 04/24/2013
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Health Care Choice Act of 2013 [HB-762]
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Health Care Choice Act of 2013 - Repeals the health insurance and health coverage expansion requirements of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and related requirements of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. Restores provisions of law amended or repealed by such provisions. Amends the Public Health Service Act to provide that the laws of the state designated by a health insurance issuer (primary state) shall apply to individual health insurance coverage offered by that issuer in the primary state and in any other
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Sponsored by: Rep. Steve Scalise
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health, Employment, Labor, And Pensions. on 04/23/2013
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No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2014 [HB-7]
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No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2014 - Title I: Prohibiting Federally Funded Abortions - (Sec. 101) Prohibits the expenditure of funds authorized or appropriated by federal law or funds in any trust fund to which funds are authorized or appropriated by federal law (federal funds) for any abortion. (Currently, federal funds cannot be used for abortion services, except in cases involving rape, incest, or life endangerment.) Prohibits federal funds from being used for any health benefits coverage that
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Sponsored by: Rep. Ted Poe
Received In The Senate And Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Finance. on 01/29/2014
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Expanded & Improved Medicare For All Act [HB-676]
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Expanded & Improved Medicare for All Act - Establishes the Medicare for All Program to provide all individuals residing in the United States and U.S. territories with free health care that includes all medically necessary care, such as primary care and prevention, dietary and nutritional therapies, prescription drugs, emergency care, long-term care, mental health services, dental services, and vision care. Prohibits an institution from participating unless it is a public or nonprofit institution. Allows nonprofit health maintenance organizations
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Sponsored by: Rep. Raul M. Grijalva
Referred To The Subcommittee Indian And Alaska Native Affairs. on 02/22/2013
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To delay until 2016 provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act scheduled to take effect in 2014 or 2015 and to delay the application of sequestration until 2014. [HB-607]
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Delays until January 1, 2016, the effective date of any provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or of any health care provisions of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2011 that were scheduled to take effect in 2014 or 2015. Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to postpone until FY2014 the automatic reductions to eliminate the excess budget deficit (sequestration). Prohibits the President from issuing an order to carry out any sequestration that the
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Sponsored by: Rep. Robert J. Wittman
Referred To The Subcommittee On Higher Education And Workforce Training. on 04/23/2013
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Small Business Healthcare Relief Act of 2014 [HB-5860]
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Small Business Healthcare Relief Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat employer payments for employee health care premiums and for amounts paid on behalf of an employee to a health reimbursement arrangement as medical expenses under an accident or health plan and thus excludible from gross income for income tax purposes.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mike Thompson
Referred To The House Committee On Ways And Means. on 12/11/2014
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Patient Freedom Act of 2014 [HB-5725]
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Patient Freedom Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal, after 2013, the requirement that individuals maintain minimum essential health care coverage.
Sponsored by: Rep. David W. Jolly
Sponsor Introductory Remarks On Measure. (cr H8036) on 11/18/2014
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State Health Flexibility Act of 2013 [HB-567]
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State Health Flexibility Act of 2013 - Amends the Social Security Act (SSA) to replace the Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program with a program of block grants to states for health care services to indigent individuals. Requires states receiving such block grants to pay for health-care-related items and services provided to a citizen, legal resident, or an alien not lawfully admitted for permanent residence or otherwise permanently residing in the United States under color of law, if: (1) such health-care-related items and services
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Sponsored by: Rep. Ted Poe
Referred To The Subcommittee On Higher Education And Workforce Training. on 04/23/2013
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Small Business Hardship Relief Act [HB-5651]
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Small Business Hardship Relief Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from the employer mandate to provide minimum essential health care coverage for its employees a small business (i.e., an employer of not more than 100 full-time employees) experiencing a hardship. Defines "hardship" to include situations in which a small business has missed two or more consecutive loan payments, is a debtor in a Chapter 11 (reorganization) bankruptcy proceeding, has received a notice of termination of utility services or a notice of eviction, has experienced
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Sponsored by: Rep. Raul Ruiz
Referred To The House Committee On Ways And Means. on 09/18/2014
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Healthcare Consumer Privacy Act of 2014 [HB-5610]
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Healthcare Consumer Privacy Act of 2014 - Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to ensure individuals who enter personal information on a health exchange website can remove their information from the website if they decide not to apply for health care coverage.
Sponsored by: Rep. John Barrow
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 09/19/2014
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Streamlining Verification for Americans Act [HB-5557]
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Streamlining Verification for Americans Act - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to allow large employers to prospectively report information regarding health care coverage available to employees eligible for premium subsidies on a health care exchange. Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), upon an individual's request, to make an advance determination of the individual's eligibility for premium subsidies based on information other than the individual's most recent
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Sponsored by: Rep. Diane Black
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 09/19/2014
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Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2015 [HB-5464]
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Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2015 - Department of Labor Appropriations Act, 2015 - Makes appropriations for FY2015 to the Department of Labor. Department of Health and Human Services Appropriations Act, 2015 - Makes appropriations for FY2015 to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Department of Education Appropriations Act, 2015 - Makes appropriations for FY2015 to the Department of Education. Makes appropriations for FY2015 to: (1) the Committee for Purchase
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Sponsored by: Rep. Barbara Lee
Referred To The House Committee On Appropriations. on 09/15/2014
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To authorize health insurance issuers to continue to offer for sale current group health insurance coverage in satisfaction of the minimum essential health insurance coverage requirement, and for other purposes. [HB-5453]
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Permits a health insurance issuer that has in effect health insurance coverage in the group market on any date during 2013 to continue offering such coverage for sale through 2016 outside of a health care exchange established under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Treats such coverage as a grandfathered health plan for purposes of an individual meeting the requirement to maintain minimum essential health coverage.
Sponsored by: Rep. Bruce L. Braley
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 09/12/2014
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Fairness for Farmers Act of 2014 [HB-5392]
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Fairness for Farmers Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude nonimmigrant agricultural seasonal workers from the definition of "full-time employee" for purposes of the employer mandate to provide employees with minimum essential health care coverage.
Sponsored by: Rep. Doug LaMalfa
Referred To The House Committee On Ways And Means. on 08/01/2014
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Securing Health Care for Young Americans Act of 2014 [HB-5384]
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Securing Health Care for Young Americans Act of 2014 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to maintain, upon repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the health care provisions of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, the requirement that health insurers provide coverage to dependents over 18 years of age until the dependent turns 26, marries, or no longer resides at home.
Sponsored by: Rep. David G. Valadao
Referred To The Subcommittee On Health. on 08/01/2014