Josephine Butler United States Health Service Act
Latest action · Mar 27, 2002 Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedOct 10, 2001
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Affords every user of the Service the right to receive high quality care and supplemental services from any facility within the Service capable of providing such services without charge and without discrimination. Sets forth a list of other basic health rights.
Declares all individuals in the United States eligible to receive health care and supplemental services under this Act. Requires the Service to provide specified services. Provides for the reimbursement of emergency health services costs.
Requires the establishment of health care facilities as necessary to provide services.
Sets forth provisions concerning job categories, certification standards, qualifications, and the education of health workers.
Requires the establishment of a health advocacy program to ensure patients rights.
Imposes on individuals, estates and trusts, and on corporations additional taxes of specified percentages of the total taxes otherwise imposed, creates the Health Service Trust Fund, and appropriates to such Fund such additional taxes, the Federal Hospital Insurance employment taxes, and a Government contribution equal to 40 percent of the amount so appropriated. Transfers to the Fund all assets and liabilities of the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund.
Cosponsors 8
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Dec 19, 2001 to Mar 7, 2002.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-NJ | Donald M. Payne | Dec 19, 2001 | |
| D-VI | Donna M. Christensen | Dec 19, 2001 | |
| D-MI | John Conyers, Jr. | Dec 19, 2001 | |
| D-NY | Major R. Owens | Dec 19, 2001 | |
| D-PA | Robert A. Brady | Dec 19, 2001 | |
| D-CA | Lynn C. Woolsey | Dec 20, 2001 | |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Mar 7, 2002 | |
| D-IN | Julia Carson | Mar 7, 2002 |
Committees 3
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Energy and Commerce Committee | Referred Oct 10, 2001 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Nov 14, 2001 | |
| House | Education and Workforce Committee | Referred Oct 10, 2001 |
| Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee | Referred Mar 27, 2002 | |
| Workforce Protections Subcommittee | Referred Mar 27, 2002 | |
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred Oct 10, 2001 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Nov 8, 2001 |
Actions 6
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 27, 2002Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
- Mar 27, 2002Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
- Nov 14, 2001Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Nov 8, 2001Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Oct 10, 2001Introduced in House
- Oct 10, 2001Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, 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.
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To establish a United States Health Service to provide high quality comprehensive health care for all Americans and to overcome the deficiencies in the present system of health care delivery.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Josephine Butler United States Health Service Act
- Popular Titles
- United States Universal Health Service Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Abortion
- Abortion counseling
- Access to health care
- Administrative procedure
- Ambulances
- Ambulatory care
- Auditing
- Breast cancer
- Business income tax
- Capital budgets
- Capitation (Medical care)
- Case management
- Charitable contributions
- Child health
- Childbirth
- Chronically ill
- Civil actions and liability
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Civil Service pensions
- Clinical trials
- Collection of accounts
- Collective bargaining in government
- Commerce
- Communication in medicine
- Community health services
- Comprehensive health care
- Conflict of interests
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Consumer complaints
- Continuing education
- Corporation taxes
- Curriculum planning
- Day care
- Dental care
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Disabled
- Disasters
- Discrimination in medical care
- Drugs
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Emergency Management
- Emergency medical services
- Eminent domain
- Employee health benefits
- Employee rights
- Employee selection
- Employee training
- Employment tests
- Environmental health
- Environmental monitoring
- Environmental Protection
- Environmentally induced diseases
- Epidemics
- Epidemiology
- Executive reorganization
- Eye care
- Eyeglasses
- Families
- Family planning and birth control
- Federal aid to medical education
- Federal employees
- Federal preemption
- Financial statements
- Generic drugs
- Geriatrics
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government publications
- Government publicity
- Government trust funds
- Grievance procedures
- Health
- Health counseling
- Health education
- Health facilities
- Health planning
- Hearing aids
- Higher education
- Home care services
- Hospital care
- Hospitals
- Housing and Community Development
- Human experimentation in medicine
- Human fertility
- Income tax
- Industrial relations
- Informed consent (Medical law)
- Inspectors general
- Investment of public funds
- Job hunting
- Labor and Employment
- Labor disputes
- Law
- Legal services
- Licenses
- Mastectomy
- Maternal health services
- Medical economics
- Medical education
- Medical ethics
- Medical malpractice
- Medical personnel
- Medical records
- Medical research
- Medical screening
- Medical statistics
- Medical supplies
- Medical tests
- Medicare
- Mental care facilities
- Mental health services
- Mentally ill
- Minorities
- Minority health
- National health insurance
- Nursing homes
- Occupational diseases
- Occupational health and safety
- Pain
- Parent and child
- Patient satisfaction
- Patients' rights
- Personal income tax
- Personnel management
- Poor
- Pregnant women
- Prenatal care
- Prescription pricing
- Presidential appointments
- Preventive medicine
- Promotions
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Public meetings of administrative bodies
- Quality of care
- Regional medical programs
- Right of privacy
- Rural health
- Salaries
- Scholarships
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Sick leave
- Social security taxes
- Social Welfare
- Sterilization (Birth control)
- Student employment
- Student loan funds
- Tax deductions
- Tax exclusion
- Tax rates
- Tax-exempt securities
- Taxation
- Terminal care
- Terminally ill
- Transfer of employees
- Translating and interpreting
- Transportation and Public Works
- Whistle blowing
- Women
- Women's health
- Workers' compensation
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Oct 10, 2001Introduced in House
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