US HB1200 | 2013-2014 | 113th Congress

Status

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on March 14 2013 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2013-04-23 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Summary

American Health Security Act of 2013 - Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives concerning recognition of health care as a human right. Establishes the State-Based American Health Security Program to provide every U.S. resident who is a U.S. citizen, national, or lawful resident alien with health care services. Requires each participating state to establish a state health security program. Eliminates benefits under: (1) titles XVIII (Medicare), XIX (Medicaid), and XXI (Children's Health Insurance) (CHIP, formerly known as SCHIP) of the Social Security Act; (2) the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program; and (3) TRICARE. Repeals requirements of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) related to health insurance coverage, including requirements concerning state health insurance exchanges. Requires each state health security program to prohibit the sale of health insurance in that state that duplicates benefits provided under the program. Establishes the American Health Security Standards Board to: (1) develop policies, procedures, guidelines and requirements to carry out this Act; (2) establish uniform reporting requirements and quality performance standards; (3) provide for an American Health Security Advisory Council and an Advisory Committee on Health Professional Education; and (4) establish a national health security budget specifying the total federal and state expenditures to be made for covered health care services. Establishes the American Health Security Quality Council to: (1) review and evaluate practice guidelines, standards of quality, performance measures, and medical review criteria; and (2) develop minimum competence criteria. Establishes the Office of Primary Care and Prevention Research within the Office of the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Creates the American Health Security Trust Fund and appropriates to it specified tax liabilities and current health program receipts, including premium assistance credit amounts under PPACA. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose on individuals: (1) a health care income tax, and (2) an income tax surcharge on amounts of modified adjusted gross income exceeding $1 million. Imposes an excise tax on securities transactions and allows an income tax credit for such taxes.

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Title

American Health Security Act of 2013

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History

DateChamberAction
2013-04-23HouseReferred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
2013-04-23HouseReferred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
2013-04-10HouseReferred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2013-04-05HouseReferred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
2013-03-15HouseReferred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2013-03-14HouseReferred to House Education and the Workforce
2013-03-14HouseReferred to House Armed Services
2013-03-14HouseReferred to House Oversight and Government Reform
2013-03-14HouseReferred to House Ways and Means
2013-03-14HouseReferred to House Energy and Commerce
2013-03-14HouseReferred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Oversight and Government Reform, Armed Services, and Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Same As/Similar To

SB1782 (Related) 2013-12-09 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
HB4 (Related) 2014-11-13 - Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 597.

Subjects

Advisory bodies
Child health
Comprehensive health care
Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
Dental care
Department of Health and Human Services
Education programs funding
Employee benefits and pensions
Employment taxes
Executive agency funding and structure
Financial services and investments
Fraud offenses and financial crimes
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Government trust funds
Health
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health facilities and institutions
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Income tax credits
Income tax rates
Intergovernmental relations
Medicaid
Medical education
Medical research
Medicare
Military medicine
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Nursing
Performance measurement
Research administration and funding
Sales and excise taxes
Securities
State and local finance
State and local government operations

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