Congress 116 - HR 4671 - Helping Seniors Afford Health Care Act

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Disability and paralysis Disability assistance Government trust funds Health Health care costs and insurance Health care coverage and access Health programs administration and funding Health promotion and preventive care Medicaid Medicare Poverty and welfare assistance State and local finance State and local government operations Wages and earnings

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Helping Seniors Afford Health Care Act

This bill alters eligibility standards and related processes for several programs that provide premium and cost-sharing assistance to low-income Medicare beneficiaries.

Among other things, the bill expands income eligibility for the Qualified Medicare Beneficiary Program and the Specified Low-Income Medicare Beneficiary Program to up to 135% and 200% of the federal poverty level (FPL), respectively, and provides an enhanced Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (i.e., federal matching rate) to state Medicaid programs for expenditures related to the expansion. The bill also repeals the Qualifying Individual Program (which currently provides premium assistance to beneficiaries with incomes between 120% and 135% of the FPL).

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Jan 24, 2020

Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 305.
Jan 24, 2020

Committee on Ways and Means discharged.
Jan 24, 2020

Reported by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 116-381, Part I.
Oct 17, 2019

Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
Oct 17, 2019

Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Oct 17, 2019

Subcommittee on Health Discharged.
Oct 16, 2019

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Oct 15, 2019

Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Oct 15, 2019

Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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.
Oct 15, 2019

Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H8141)
Oct 15, 2019

Introduced in House
Sep 25, 2019

Hearings Held by the Subcommittee on Health Prior to Introduction and Referral.

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