Expanded & Improved Medicare For All Act
Latest action · Mar 7, 2018 ASSUMING FIRST SPONSORSHIP - Mr. Ellison asked unanimous consent that he may hereafter be considered as the first sponsor of H.R. 676, a bill originally introduced by former Representative Conyers, for purposes of adding cosponsors and requesting reprintings pursuant to clause 7 of rule XII. Agreed to without objection.
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 24, 2017
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Expanded & Improved Medicare for All Act
This bill establishes the Medicare for All Program to provide all individuals residing in the United States and U.S. territories with free health care that includes all medically necessary care, such as primary care and prevention, dietary and nutritional therapies, prescription drugs, emergency care, long-term care, mental health services, dental services, and vision care.
Only public or nonprofit institutions may participate. Nonprofit health maintenance organizations (HMOs) that deliver care in their own facilities may participate.
Patients may choose from participating physicians and institutions.
Health insurers may not sell health insurance that duplicates the benefits provided under this bill. Insurers may sell benefits that are not medically necessary, such as cosmetic surgery benefits.
The bill sets forth methods to pay institutional providers and health professionals for services. Financial incentives between HMOs and physicians based on utilization are prohibited.
The program is funded: (1) from existing sources of government revenues for health care, (2) by increasing personal income taxes on the top 5% of income earners, (3) by instituting a progressive excise tax on payroll and self-employment income, (4) by instituting a tax on unearned income, and (5) by instituting a tax on stock and bond transactions. Amounts that would have been appropriated for federal public health care programs, including Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), are transferred and appropriated to carry out this bill.
The program must give employment transition benefits and first priority in retraining and job placement to individuals whose jobs are eliminated due to reduced clerical and administrative work under this bill.
The Department of Health and Human Services must create a confidential electronic patient record system.
The bill establishes a National Board of Universal Quality and Access to provide advice on quality, access, and affordability.
The Indian Health Service must be integrated into the program after five years. Congress must evaluate the continued independence of Department of Veterans Affairs health programs.
Cosponsors 124
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 24, 2017 to Dec 6, 2018, with 51 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-TX | Al Green | Original | Jan 24, 2017 |
| D-FL | Alcee L. Hastings | Original | Jan 24, 2017 |
| D-NC | Alma S. Adams | Original | Jan 24, 2017 |
| D-CA | Barbara Lee | Original | Jan 24, 2017 |
| D-MS | Bennie G. Thompson | Original | Jan 24, 2017 |
| D-NJ | Bonnie Watson Coleman | Original | Jan 24, 2017 |
| D-MI | Brenda L. Lawrence | Original | Jan 24, 2017 |
| D-ME | Chellie Pingree | Original | Jan 24, 2017 |
| D-OR | Earl Blumenauer | Original | Jan 24, 2017 |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Original | Jan 24, 2017 |
| D-MD | Elijah E. Cummings | Original | Jan 24, 2017 |
| D-NY | Eliot L. Engel | Original | Jan 24, 2017 |
| D-MO | Emanuel Cleaver | Original | Jan 24, 2017 |
| D-CA | Grace F. Napolitano | Original | Jan 24, 2017 |
| D-WI | Gwen Moore | Original | Jan 24, 2017 |
Actions 5
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 7, 2018ASSUMING FIRST SPONSORSHIP - Mr. Ellison asked unanimous consent that he may hereafter be considered as the first sponsor of H.R. 676, a bill originally introduced by former Representative Conyers, for purposes of adding cosponsors and requesting reprintings pursuant to clause 7 of rule XII. Agreed to without objection.
- Feb 10, 2017Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs.
- Feb 7, 2017Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Jan 24, 2017Introduced in House
- Jan 24, 2017Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Natural Resources, 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.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Advisory bodies
- Appropriations
- Child health
- Comprehensive health care
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Employment and training programs
- Employment taxes
- Executive agency funding and structure
- Government studies and investigations
- Government trust funds
- 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 rates
- Indian social and development programs
- Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
- Medical ethics
- Medicare
- Mental health
- Minority health
- Poverty and welfare assistance
- Prescription drugs
- Right of privacy
- Sales and excise taxes
- Securities
- State and local finance
- Veterans' medical care
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 24, 2017Introduced in House
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