US Congress House Bill 1200 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9)
Status: Introduced on February 25 2009 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2009-02-26 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

American Health Security Act of 2009 - 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 (State Children's Health Insurance) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act; (2) the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program; and (3) the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS). 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; (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). Amends the Internal Revenue Code to create the American Health Security Trust Fund and appropriates to the Fund specified tax liabilities and current health program receipts.

American Health Security Act of 2009

Rep. Norman Dicks [D-WA]	Rep. Eliot Engel [D-NY]	Rep. Sam Farr [D-CA]	Rep. Maurice Hinchey [D-NY]
Rep. Dennis Kucinich [D-OH]	Rep. Barbara Lee [D-CA]	Rep. Jim McDermott [D-WA]	Rep. John Olver [D-MA]
Rep. Janice Schakowsky [D-IL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2009-02-26		Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2009-02-25		Referred to House Armed Services
2009-02-25		Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
2009-02-25		Referred to House Ways and Means
2009-02-25		Referred to House Energy and Commerce
2009-02-25		Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Oversight and Government Reform, and Armed Services, 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.

SB703 (Related) 2009-03-25 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/house-bill/1200/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/111/bills/hr1200/BILLS-111hr1200ih.pdf