Health Insurance Fairness Act

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Bill Number

S 3119

Introduced

Oct 16, 2002

Latest Action

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Sponsor

Cosponsors

Topics

Access to health care Associations, institutions, etc. Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues Commerce Discrimination in insurance Discrimination in medical care Finance and Financial Sector Health Health insurance Health insurance industry Insurance premiums Insurance rates Medical economics Patient dumping

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Summary

Health Insurance Fairness Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to prohibit health insurance issuers that provide individual coverage or coverage through an association from: (1) reclassifying an individual from the class such individual was in at the time of issuance of the contract for a health related factor; or (2) increasing the premiums assessed an individual for coverage for a health related reason.

Declares that nothing in this Act shall be construed to prohibit a health insurance issuer from terminating or discontinuing coverage or a class of coverage in line with specified provisions of the Act, or from raising premium rates for all policy holders based on clams experience.

Actions

Oct 16, 2002

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Oct 16, 2002

Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10575-10576)
Oct 16, 2002

Introduced in Senate

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