Ensuring Quality Health Care for All Americans Act of 2012
Latest action · Sep 26, 2012 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.
- IntroducedMar 22, 2012
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Ensuring Quality Health Care for All Americans Act of 2012 - Repeals the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and restores provisions of law amended by such Act or provisions.
Repeals the health care provisions of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 and restores provisions of law amended by such Act's health care provisions.
Revises Public Health Service Act provisions concerning health insurance coverage to require each health insurance issuer offering health insurance coverage in the group market (currently, individual or group market) in a state to accept every employer and every individual in a group (currently, every employer and every individual) in the state applying for such coverage.
Prohibits a group health plan or a health insurance issuer offering group health insurance coverage from imposing: (1) any preexisting condition exclusion with respect to such plan or coverage, or (2) lifetime or annual limits.
Requires dependent coverage beyond age 18 until the first of either a dependent turning 26, marrying, or no longer residing at home.
Requires plans to offer catastrophic coverage and sets forth coverage requirements.
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to make grants to States for planning for the establishment and implementation of health insurance risk adjustment mechanisms.
Sets forth provisions limiting the liability of health care providers.
Cosponsors 1
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Jul 12, 2012.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-PA | Michael G. Fitzpatrick | Jul 12, 2012 |
Committees 8
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 Mar 22, 2012 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Apr 23, 2012 | |
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred Mar 22, 2012 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Mar 28, 2012 | |
| House | Education and Workforce Committee | Referred Mar 22, 2012 |
| Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee | Referred Sep 26, 2012 | |
| House | Judiciary Committee | Referred Mar 22, 2012 |
| Constitution and Limited Government Subcommittee | Referred Mar 26, 2012 | |
| House | Natural Resources Committee | Referred Mar 22, 2012 |
| Indian and Insular Affairs Subcommittee | Referred Apr 2, 2012 | |
| House | Rules Committee | Referred Mar 22, 2012 |
| House | Committee on House Administration | Referred Mar 22, 2012 |
| House | Appropriations Committee | Referred Mar 22, 2012 |
Actions 7
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 26, 2012Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
- Apr 23, 2012Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Apr 2, 2012Referred to the Subcommittee Indian and Alaska Native Affairs.
- Mar 28, 2012Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Mar 26, 2012Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
- Mar 22, 2012Introduced in House
- Mar 22, 2012Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and the Workforce, the Judiciary, Natural Resources, Rules, House Administration, and Appropriations, 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.
In the Congressional Record 2
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| House | Debate and remarks H4749 | Joseph J. Heck R-NV | Jul 10, 2012 |
| House | Debate and remarks H3799 | Joseph J. Heck R-NV | Jun 19, 2012 |
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 H1542.
Printed hearings 1
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| S. Hrg. 112-515 | THE CHOICE NEIGHBORHOODS INITIATIVE: A NEW COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT MODEL60 pages | Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee | Mar 27, 2012 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide individual and group market reforms to protect health insurance consumers, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Ensuring Quality Health Care for All Americans Act of 2012
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Child health
- Civil actions and liability
- Comprehensive health care
- Disability and health-based discrimination
- Employee benefits and pensions
- Family relationships
- Federal preemption
- General health and health care finance matters
- Health
- Health care costs and insurance
- Health care coverage and access
- Health care quality
- Health programs administration and funding
- Higher education
- Legal fees and court costs
- Medicaid
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 22, 2012Introduced 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.
