Access to Insurance for All Americans Act
Latest action · Apr 29, 2015 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 6, 2015
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Access to Insurance for All Americans Act
Repeals the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the health care provisions of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, effective as of the enactment of such Act and provisions. Restores provisions of law amended by such Act and provisions.
Directs the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to administer a health insurance program for non-federal employees and to apply to such program the provisions governing the federal employee health insurance program to the greatest extent practicable.
Requires OPM, for each calendar year, to enter into a contract with one or more carriers to make health benefits plans available to eligible individuals. Allows any individual to enroll in such a plan unless the individual: (1) is enrolled or eligible to enroll for coverage under a public health insurance program (including Medicaid or Medicare) or under the federal employee health insurance program, or (2) is a member of the uniformed services.
Allows rates and premiums for such a plan to differ among geographic regions. Makes such premiums tax deductible.
Provides that no government contribution shall be made for any individual enrolled in such a plan. Directs OPM to ensure that covered individuals are in a risk pool separate from that maintained for federal employees.
Requires the Director of OPM to submit a comprehensive plan to Congress that provides for the orderly implementation of the amendments made by this Act, including a schedule of actions to be taken to provide for that implementation.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Committees 9
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 6, 2015 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Jan 9, 2015 | |
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred Jan 6, 2015 |
| Health Subcommittee | Referred Feb 27, 2015 | |
| House | Oversight and Government Reform Committee | Referred Jan 6, 2015 |
| House | Education and Workforce Committee | Referred Jan 6, 2015 |
| Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee | Referred Apr 29, 2015 | |
| Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee | Referred Apr 29, 2015 | |
| House | Natural Resources Committee | Referred Jan 6, 2015 |
| Indian and Insular Affairs Subcommittee | Referred Mar 2, 2015 | |
| House | Judiciary Committee | Referred Jan 6, 2015 |
| House | Rules Committee | Referred Jan 6, 2015 |
| House | Appropriations Committee | Referred Jan 6, 2015 |
| House | Committee on House Administration | Referred Jan 6, 2015 |
Actions 7
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Apr 29, 2015Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
- Apr 29, 2015Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
- Mar 2, 2015Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.
- Feb 27, 2015Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Jan 9, 2015Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Jan 6, 2015Introduced in House
- Jan 6, 2015Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Oversight and Government Reform, Education and the Workforce, Natural Resources, the Judiciary, Rules, Appropriations, and House Administration, 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 Congressional Record, vol. 161, no. 1, January 6, 2015, page H47.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 132 | ObamaCare Repeal Act | Related bill | Apr 29, 2015 |
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 and the health care-related provisions in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 and to amend title 5, United States Code, to establish a national health program administered by the Office of Personnel Management to offer Federal employee health benefits plans to individuals who are not Federal employees, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Access to Insurance for All Americans Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 6, 2015Introduced 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.
