US Congress House Bill 2165 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: Introduced on May 23 2013 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2013-07-08 - 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]

Ensuring Quality Health Care for All Americans Act of 2013 - States that this Act shall take effect upon the repeal, required by this Act, of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and the health care provisions of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. Restores or revives the provisions of law amended or repealed by PPACA and such health care provisions as if they had not been enacted and without further amendment to them. Revises Public Health Service Act provisions concerning health insurance coverage to require each health insurance issuer offering health insurance coverage in the group market (currently, individual or group market) in a state to accept every employer and every individual in a group (currently, every employer and every individual) in the state applying for such coverage. Prohibits a group health plan or a health insurance issuer offering group health insurance coverage from imposing: (1) any preexisting condition exclusion with respect to such plan or coverage, or (2) lifetime or annual limits. Requires dependent coverage beyond age 18 until the first of either a dependent turning 26, marrying, or no longer residing at home. Requires plans to offer catastrophic coverage and sets forth coverage requirements. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to make grants to States for planning for the establishment and implementation of health insurance risk adjustment mechanisms. Sets forth provisions limiting the liability of health care providers.

Ensuring Quality Health Care for All Americans Act of 2013

Rep. Joseph Heck [R-NV]

Rep. Michael Fitzpatrick [R-PA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-07-08	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
2013-06-19	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2013-06-14	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.
2013-05-24	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2013-05-23	House	Referred to House Judiciary
2013-05-23	House	Referred to House Ways and Means
2013-05-23	House	Referred to House Education and the Workforce
2013-05-23	House	Referred to House Energy and Commerce
2013-05-23	House	Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, Ways and Means, and the Judiciary, 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.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/2165/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/hr2165/BILLS-113hr2165ih.pdf