US Congress House Bill 1200 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)
Status: Introduced on March 17 2011 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-05-18 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Military Personnel Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

American Health Security Act of 2011 - 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 provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) related to health insurance coverage, including provisions 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 credits under PPACA.

American Health Security Act of 2011

Rep. Jim McDermott [D-WA]	Rep. Judy Chu [D-CA]	Rep. Lacy Clay [D-MO]	Rep. John Conyers [D-MI]
Rep. Keith Ellison [D-MN]	Rep. Sam Farr [D-CA]	Rep. Raul Grijalva [D-AZ]	Rep. Dennis Kucinich [D-OH]
Rep. Barbara Lee [D-CA]	Rep. James McGovern [D-MA]	Rep. John Olver [D-MA]	Rep. Janice Schakowsky [D-IL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-05-18	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
2011-04-07	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2011-04-04	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
2011-04-01	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service, and Labor Policy.
2011-03-28	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
2011-03-17	House	Referred to House Education and the Workforce
2011-03-17	House	Referred to House Armed Services
2011-03-17	House	Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
2011-03-17	House	Referred to House Ways and Means
2011-03-17	House	Referred to House Energy and Commerce
2011-03-17	House	Referred 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.
2011-03-17	House	Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E518)

SB915 (Related) 2011-05-09 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/1200/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/hr1200/BILLS-112hr1200ih.pdf