Enhanced Health Care Value for All Act of 2007

To provide affordable, guaranteed private health coverage that will make Americans healthier and can never be taken away.

7/24/2007--Introduced.
Healthy Americans Act - Requires each adult individual to have the opportunity to purchase a Healthy Americans Private Insurance Plan (HAPI). Makes individuals who are not enrolled in another specified health plan and who are not opposed to coverage for religious reasons responsible for enrolling themselves and their dependent children in a HAPI plan offered through their state of residence. Sets forth penalties for failure to enroll. Establishes standardized coverage and state options for HAPI plans. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to promulgate guidelines concerning the benefits, items, and services to be covered. Sets forth requirements for setting premiums. Requires the Secretary to establish the Healthy America Advisory Committee to provide annual recommendations concerning modifications to the benefits, items, and services required. Requires the Secretary to establish Chronic Care Education Centers. Requires states to establish or designate a state Health Help Agency to carry out the administration of HAPI plans and to promote prevention and wellness for residents. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require employers and individuals to each make shared responsibility payments for HAPI plan premiums. Sets forth requirements for health insurance issuers offering a HAPI plan. Establishes the Healthy Americans Public Health Trust Fund for the payment of premium subsidies. Terminates federal health benefits coverage, including coverage provided under the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) program and the State Children's Health Insurance program (SCHIP). Enhanced Health Care Value for All Act of 2007 - Provides for a Comparative Effectiveness Advisory Board and a Health Care Comparative Effectiveness Research Trust Fund.


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Sponsor

• Rep. Brian Baird [D, WA-3]
• and 3 Co-Sponsors
  • Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D, OR-3]
  • Rep. Jim Cooper [D, TN-5]
  • Rep. Jo Ann Emerson [R, MO-8]
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Committees

• House Energy and Commerce
• 6 more
  • House Energy and Commerce
  • House Ways and Means
  • House Ways and Means
  • House Oversight and Government Reform
  • House Education and Labor
  • House Education and Labor
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Amendments

This bill has no amendments.

Amendments to H.R.3163

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Introduced		Voted on by House		Voted on by Senate		Considered By President		Bill Becomes Law
July 24, 2007

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• Sep 19, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
• Jul 31, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
• Jul 24, 2007: Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
• Jul 24, 2007: Referred to House Education and Labor
• Jul 24, 2007: Referred to House Ways and Means
• Jul 24, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
• Jul 24, 2007: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
• Jul 24, 2007: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Labor, and Oversight and Government Reform, 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 Jul 24, 2007.

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Related Bills:

• S.334

Related Issue Areas:

• Welfare
• Taxation
• Tax refunds
• Tax exclusion
• 42 more
• Tax deductions
• Tax credits
• State politics and government
• State and local government
• Science policy
• School health programs
• Quality of care
• Poor children
• Politics and government
• Medicine
• Medically uninsured
• Medical research
• Medical economics
• Medical care
• Medicaid
• Law
• Labor
• Insurance premiums
• Income tax
• Hospital care
• Health insurance
• Health information systems
• Government trust funds
• Government employees' health insurance
• Government employees
• Fringe benefits
• Fines (Penalties)
• Finance
• Federal employees
• Federal aid to child health services
• Federal advisory bodies
• Executive departments
• Employee health benefits
• Elementary and secondary education
• Drug approvals
• Department of Health and Human Services
• Chronically ill
• Children
• Child health
• Budgets
• Administrative procedure
• Health policy

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May 05, 2008 Sounds Almost Too Good To Be True

Although the sponsors of the Healthy Americans Act (S.334/HR 3163) have managed to bridge their partisan differences, the bill is still pretty much of a mind bender. Suffice it to say that it connects something like the financing idea ...

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April 27, 2008 Universal Freedom from disease Care: Itв ™s About That Job You Hate

It hasnв ™t gone very far, nor has its related bill in the House, HR 3163 by Baird Ryan (WA - 3). Taking a look at it, it looks like we the people would fund the insurance from payroll deductions, the richer pay more, the poorer pay ...

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April 25, 2008 Freedom from disease Security against loss Question

Wyden filed this bill on practically day one of the current session, on January 18, 2007. It hasn’t gone very far, nor has its related bill in the House, HR 3163 by Baird Ryan (WA - 3). Taking a look at it, it looks like we the people ...

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