No Discrimination in Health Insurance Act of 2008

To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, Public Health Service Act, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prohibit discrimination in group health coverage and individual health insurance coverage.

2/14/2008--Introduced.
No Discrimination in Health Insurance Act of 2008 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), the Internal Revenue Code, and the Public Health Service Act to prohibit a group health plan from imposing any preexisting conditions exclusion.
Requires each health insurance issuer that offers health insurance coverage in the group market in a state to:
(1) accept every employer in the state that applies for such coverage;
(2) accept enrollment for every eligible individual who applies during the enrollment period;
(3) charge the same premium price for the same coverage; and
(4) openly disclose such premium price.
Eliminates provisions allowing nonfederal governmental plans to opt out of certain group health plan requirements.
Prohibits health insurance issuers that offer coverage in the individual market to individuals residing in an area from:
(1) declining to offer such coverage to, or denying enrollment of, eligible individuals in the area who desire to enroll; or
(2) imposing any preexisting conditions exclusion. Defines "eligible individual" to mean:
(1) a U.S. citizen or national;
(2) an alien lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence; or
(3) an alien who is otherwise lawfully residing in the United States. Requires such issuers to:
(1) charge the same premium price for the same coverage, including coverage offered in the group market; and
(2) openly disclose such premium price. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish rules to deter individuals from:
(1) enrolling in individual health insurance coverage only after they develop an illness or injury; or
(2) disenrolling for periods in which they are unlikely to require such coverage.


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Sponsor

• Rep. Steve Kagen [D, WI-8]
• and 18 Co-Sponsors
  • Rep. Bruce Braley [D, IA-1]
  • Rep. Kathy Castor [D, FL-11]
  • Rep. Yvette Clarke [D, NY-11]
  • Rep. Steve Cohen [D, TN-9]
  • Rep. John Conyers [D, MI-14]
  • Rep. Keith Ellison [D, MN-5]
  • Rep. Raul Grijalva [D, AZ-7]
  • Rep. Mazie Hirono [D, HI-2]
  • Rep. Jesse Jackson [D, IL-2]
  • Rep. Henry Johnson [D, GA-4]
  • Rep. Jerry McNerney [D, CA-11]
  • Rep. Jerrold Nadler [D, NY-8]
  • Rep. Grace Napolitano [D, CA-38]
  • Rep. Ed Perlmutter [D, CO-7]
  • Rep. Carol Shea-Porter [D, NH-1]
  • Rep. Albio Sires [D, NJ-13]
  • Rep. Betty Sutton [D, OH-13]
  • Rep. Timothy Walz [D, MN-1]
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Committees

• House Energy and Commerce
• 3 more
  • House Energy and Commerce
  • House Ways and Means
  • House Education and Labor
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Amendments

This bill has no amendments.

Amendments to H.R.5449

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Introduced		Voted on by House		Voted on by Senate		Considered By President		Bill Becomes Law
February 14, 2008

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• Feb 14, 2008: Referred to House Ways and Means
• Feb 14, 2008: Referred to House Education and Labor
• Feb 14, 2008: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
• Feb 14, 2008: Referred to House Energy and Commerce
• Feb 14, 2008: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, and Ways and Means, 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.
• Feb 14, 2008: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H974-975, H975-977)
• Introduced on Feb 14, 2008.

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Related Issue Areas:

• Medicine
• Medical economics
• Medical care
• Law
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• Labor
• Insurance premiums
• Insurance companies
• Health insurance
• Government employees' health insurance
• Government employees
• Finance
• Executive departments
• Employee health benefits
• Discrimination in medical care
• Discrimination in insurance
• Department of Health and Human Services
• Consumers
• Consumer education
• Civil rights
• Business
• Administrative procedure
• Health policy

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