Healthy Americans Act

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

1/18/2007--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. Provides for school-based health centers. Authorizes states to establish and operate a State Choices for Long-Term Care Program. 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:
(1) premium subsidies; and
(2) bonuses to states for implementing medical malpractice reform. 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).


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Sponsor

• Sen. Ron Wyden [D, OR]
• and 17 Co-Sponsors
  • Sen. Lamar Alexander [R, TN]
  • Sen. Robert Bennett [R, UT]
  • Sen. Maria Cantwell [D, WA]
  • Sen. Thomas Carper [D, DE]
  • Norm Coleman
  • Sen. Bob Corker [R, TN]
  • Sen. Michael Crapo [R, ID]
  • Sen. Charles Grassley [R, IA]
  • Sen. Judd Gregg [R, NH]
  • Sen. Daniel Inouye [D, HI]
  • Sen. Mary Landrieu [D, LA]
  • Sen. Joseph Lieberman [I, CT]
  • Trent Lott
  • Sen. Bill Nelson [D, FL]
  • Gordon Smith
  • Sen. Arlen Specter [D, PA]
  • Sen. Debbie Ann Stabenow [D, MI]
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Committees

• Senate Finance

Amendments

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Amendments to S.334

Number	Status	Purpose
S.Amdt.4577	Offered	Amendment information not available.

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Introduced		Voted on by Senate		Voted on by House		Considered By President		Bill Becomes Law
January 18, 2007

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• Sep 07, 2007: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11264-11267)
• May 08, 2007: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5676-5677)
• Mar 22, 2007: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3556)
• Mar 22, 2007: Introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3556)
• Jan 31, 2007: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1363-1364)
• Jan 31, 2007: Introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1363-1364)
• Jan 18, 2007: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
• Introduced on Jan 18, 2007.
• Jan 18, 2007: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S757-763)
• Jan 18, 2007: Introductory remarks on measure. (CR S757-763)

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Related Issue Areas:

• Health policy
• Access to health care
• Aged
• Budgets
• 72 more
• Business
• Catastrophic health insurance
• Child health
• Children
• Chronically ill
• Congress
• Congressional reporting requirements
• Consumer education
• Consumers
• Drug advertising
• Drug approvals
• Drug industry
• Drugs
• Education
• Employee health benefits
• Executive departments
• Federal advisory bodies
• Federal aid to child health services
• Federal employees
• Finance
• Fines (Penalties)
• Flexible benefit plans
• Fringe benefits
• Government employees' health insurance
• Government information
• Government publicity
• Government trust funds
• Health education
• Health information systems
• Health insurance
• Higher education
• Hospital care
• Income tax
• Insurance companies
• Insurance premiums
• Internet
• Labor
• Law
• Living wills
• Long-term care insurance
• Medicaid
• Medical care
• Medical economics
• Medical education
• Medical instruments and apparatus
• Medical malpractice
• Medical records
• Medically uninsured
• Medicare
• Medicine
• Physical examinations
• Politics and government
• Poor children
• Prescription pricing
• Preventive medicine
• Public contracts
• Quality of care
• Retiree health benefits
• Standards
• State and local government
• State politics and government
• Tax credits
• Tax deductions
• Tax exclusion
• Taxation
• Technology
• Telecommunication
• Telephone
• Terminal care
• Web sites
• Welfare
• Medical supplies

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[13] The Healthy Americans Act (S. 334). The Wyden-Bennett bill would abolish the existing tax exclusion in favor of a new system of income-based subsidies for low-income persons and a new tax deduction for middle and upper income ...

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Medtronic (1); S.334 Are you Happy with HAPI? (1); Sarah Palin: Abuse of Power is a Track record (1); Sarcasm (1); Sarkisyan (1); SNP's (1); sounds good? Think again. (1); Stalling: Insurance tactic (1); Start in the Middle (1) ...

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Medtronic (1); S.334 Are you Happy with HAPI? (1); Sarah Palin: Abuse of Power is a Track record (1); Sarcasm (1); Sarkisyan (1); SNP's (1); sounds good? Think again. (1); Stalling: Insurance tactic (1); Start in the Middle (1) ...

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