Empowering Patients First Act
Latest action · Feb 25, 2011 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
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.
- IntroducedJan 5, 2011
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Empowering Patients First Act - Repeals the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the health care provisions of the Health Care and Education and Reconciliation Act of 2010, effective as of their enactment. Restores or revives provisions amended or repealed by such Act or such health care provisions.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for qualified health insurance costs to residents of a state that implements a high-risk pool, a reinsurance pool, or other risk-adjustment mechanism.
Amends the Public Health Service Act to provide for the establishment and governance of individual membership associations (IMAs) to make available health benefits coverage to IMA members and their dependents.
Small Business Health Fairness Act of 2011 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to provide for establishment and governance of association health plans, which are group health plans whose sponsors are trade, industry, professional, chamber of commerce, or similar business associations and which meet certain ERISA certification requirements.
Directs that the laws of the state designated by a health insurance issuer (primary state) shall apply to individual health insurance coverage offered by that issuer in the primary state and in any other state (secondary state), but only if the coverage and issuer comply with conditions of this Act.
Amends title XXI (Children's Health Insurance) (CHIP, formerly known as SCHIP) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to: (1) require a state CHIP plan to specify how it will achieve coverage for 90% of targeted low-income children; and (2) prohibit CHIP payments for children with family income above 300% of the applicable poverty line.
Help Efficient, Accessible, Low-cost, Timely Healthcare (HEALTH) Act of 2011 - Sets conditions for lawsuits arising from health care liability claims regarding health care goods or services or any medical product affecting interstate commerce. Establishes a statute of limitations and limits noneconomic and punitive damages.
Permits a group health plan to vary premiums and cost-sharing by up to 50% of the benefits based on participation (or lack of participation) in a wellness program.
Requires a health insurance issuer to provide claims information, on request, to a plan, plan sponsor, or plan administrator.
Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) from using comparative effectiveness research to deny coverage of an item or service under a federal health care program.
Authorizes a state to establish a Health Plan and Provider Portal website to standardize information on health insurance plans available in the state.
Revises the formula for determining rates in the fee schedule for Medicare physician payments.
Sets forth provisions regarding students loans and loan repayment for health care professionals.
Establishes discretionary spending limits for FY2011-FY2020 for new budget authority in the nondefense category. Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to reinstate budget provisions related to deficit reductions during a recession.
Rescinds unobligated balances of certain discretionary appropriations made available under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Repeals other provisions of such Act, including provisions providing fiscal assistance to states and setting limits on executive compensation.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Committees 10
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 Jan 5, 2011 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Feb 1, 2011 | |
| House | Budget Committee | Referred Jan 5, 2011 |
| House | Education and Workforce Committee | Referred Jan 5, 2011 |
| Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee | Referred Feb 25, 2011 | |
| House | Natural Resources Committee | Referred Jan 5, 2011 |
| Indian and Insular Affairs Subcommittee | Referred Jan 26, 2011 | |
| House | Committee on House Administration | Referred Jan 5, 2011 |
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred Jan 5, 2011 |
| House | Judiciary Committee | Referred Jan 5, 2011 |
| Constitution and Limited Government Subcommittee | Referred Jan 24, 2011 | |
| House | Rules Committee | Referred Jan 5, 2011 |
| House | Appropriations Committee | Referred Jan 5, 2011 |
| House | Oversight and Government Reform Committee | Referred Jan 5, 2011 |
| Government Operations Subcommittee | Referred Feb 8, 2011 |
Actions 7
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Feb 25, 2011Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
- Feb 8, 2011Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Organization, Efficiency, and Financial Management .
- Feb 1, 2011Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Jan 26, 2011Referred to the Subcommittee Indian and Alaska Native Affairs.
- Jan 24, 2011Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
- Jan 5, 2011Introduced in House
- Jan 5, 2011Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, Education and the Workforce, Natural Resources, House Administration, Ways and Means, the Judiciary, Rules, Appropriations, 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.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the page H44.
CRS reports 1
Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.
Cite it 1
Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| R41613 | Fishery, Aquaculture, and Marine Mammal Issues in the 112th Congress Archived | Report | Jan 22, 2013 |
Related bills 5
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 1050 | Small Business Health Fairness Act of 2011 | Related bill | Mar 21, 2011 |
| S 1099 | Help Efficient, Accessible, Low-cost, Timely Healthcare (HEALTH) Act of 2011 | Related bill | May 26, 2011 |
| HR 3000 | Empowering Patients First Act | Related bill | Nov 18, 2011 |
| HR 5652 | Sequester Replacement Reconciliation Act of 2012 | Related bill | May 15, 2012 |
| HR 6299 | To repeal the Federally subsidized loan program for non-profit health insurance, to provide for association health plans, and for other purposes. | Related bill | Aug 3, 2012 |
Titles 4
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and related health-care provisions and to enact in its place incentives to encourage health insurance coverage, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Empowering Patients First Act
- Short Titles as Introduced for portions of this bill
- Small Business Health Fairness Act of 2011
- Help Efficient, Accessible, Low-cost, Timely Healthcare (HEALTH) Act of 2011
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Abortion
- Administrative law and regulatory procedures
- Administrative remedies
- Alternative dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration
- Budget deficits and national debt
- Child health
- Civil actions and liability
- Comprehensive health care
- Congressional oversight
- Consumer affairs
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Disability and health-based discrimination
- Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
- Education programs funding
- Emergency medical services and trauma care
- Employee benefits and pensions
- Evidence and witnesses
- Government information and archives
- Government lending and loan guarantees
- Government studies and investigations
- Health
- Health care costs and insurance
- Health care coverage and access
- Health care quality
- Health information and medical records
- Health personnel
- Health programs administration and funding
- Health promotion and preventive care
- Income tax credits
- Income tax deductions
- Intergovernmental relations
- Medicaid
- Medical education
- Medical research
- Medicare
- Poverty and welfare assistance
- Right of privacy
- Small business
- Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations
- State and local government operations
- Student aid and college costs
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 5, 2011Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
