American Health Security Act of 2007

To provide for health care for every American and to control the cost and enhance the quality of the health care system.

2/27/2007--Introduced.
American Health Security Act of 2007 - 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.


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Sponsor

• Rep. James McDermott [D, WA-7]
• and 17 Co-Sponsors
  • Rep. Tammy Baldwin [D, WI-2]
  • Rep. Howard Berman [D, CA-28]
  • Rep. William Delahunt [D, MA-10]
  • Rep. Norman Dicks [D, WA-6]
  • Rep. Eliot Engel [D, NY-17]
  • Rep. Sam Farr [D, CA-17]
  • Rep. Raul Grijalva [D, AZ-7]
  • Rep. Luis Gutierrez [D, IL-4]
  • Rep. Maurice Hinchey [D, NY-22]
  • Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee [D, TX-18]
  • Rep. Dennis Kucinich [D, OH-10]
  • Rep. Barbara Lee [D, CA-9]
  • Rep. John Lewis [D, GA-5]
  • Rep. John Olver [D, MA-1]
  • Rep. Donald Payne [D, NJ-10]
  • Rep. Janice Schakowsky [D, IL-9]
  • Rep. John Tierney [D, MA-6]
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Committees

• House Energy and Commerce
• 6 more
  • House Energy and Commerce
  • House Armed Services
  • House Armed Services
  • House Ways and Means
  • House Ways and Means
  • House Oversight and Government Reform
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Amendments

This bill has no amendments.

Amendments to H.R.1200

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Introduced		Voted on by House		Voted on by Senate		Considered By President		Bill Becomes Law
February 27, 2007

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• Apr 24, 2007: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H4034-4035)
• Mar 28, 2007: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3265)
• Mar 28, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
• Mar 13, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
• Feb 28, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
• Feb 27, 2007: Referred to House Armed Services
• Feb 27, 2007: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
• Feb 27, 2007: Referred to House Ways and Means
• Feb 27, 2007: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
• Feb 27, 2007: 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.
• Introduced on Feb 27, 2007.

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