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Retirement RET

Retiree health insurance (no bills yet)

Contacted: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Executive Office of the President (EOP); SENATE; Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

Health Issues HCR

HR 2 (repeal ACA); HR 2 (De-fund ACA); HR 1010 (directs SCOTUS to expedite appeal on Constitutionality of ACA); H. Res. 9 (Instructs Committees to develop proposals as alternatives to ACA); HR 4 (repeal 1099 provision of ACA); HR 21/S. 19 (repeal ACA's individual mandate); H. J. Res 19 (Expression of disapproval of HHS Regulation on MLR); HR 1206 (Exclude broker remuneration from MLR); S. 244 ( allows states to opt out of enumerated ACA provisions per state-passed legislation); S. 248 (accelerates from 2017 to 2014 the right of states to seek federal waiver from specified provisions of ACA); S. 312/HR 605 (repeals ACA provision barring use of FSA/HSA money for OTC medications); HR 1150 (amends McCarran-Ferguson); HR 979 (imposes new requirements on PBMs and insurers who participate in FEHBP); S. 27 (prohibits settlement of patent infringement cases which results in delay of generics coming to market); S. 493 (Small Business bill).

Contacted: Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); SENATE; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); Executive Office of the President (EOP)

Bills named: H.R. 1150 (112th), S. 493 (112th), H.J.Res. 19 (112th), H.Res. 9 (112th), H.R. 1206 (112th), H.R. 21 (112th), H.R. 1010 (112th), H.R. 979 (112th), S. 244 (112th), H.R. 4 (112th), H.R. 605 (112th), S. 27 (112th), S. 312 (112th), S. 19 (112th), S. 248 (112th), H.R. 2 (112th)

Torts TOR

HR 5 (Medical Malpractice Liability Reform)

Contacted: SENATE; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); Executive Office of the President (EOP); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Bills named: H.R. 5 (112th)

Taxation/Internal Revenue Code TAX

Capital loss carryback (No Bills yet) Interchange fee and application to debit card for FSA business

Contacted: Executive Office of the President (EOP); Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; SENATE

Medicare/Medicaid MMM

S. 31 and S. 44 (Allow HHS to directly negotiate drug prices); S. 560 and HR 999 (Establishes Medicare-run Part D PDP nationwide); Proposals to extend the "Doc Fix" beyond 12/31/ 2011. Medicaid Maintenance of Effort repeal (No Bill Number); Medicare Advantage Open Enrollment period (No Bill Number);

Contacted: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS); Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); Executive Office of the President (EOP); SENATE

Bills named: H.R. 999 (112th), S. 31 (112th), S. 44 (112th), S. 560 (112th)

Insurance INS

HR 1050 (allows for Association Health Plans free from state mandated benefits); HR 346 (allows for national insurance marketplace via cross-state purchsing of coverage); HR 416/S. 137 (mechanism for HHS/states to covvect excessive insurance rates);

Contacted: Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS); SENATE; Executive Office of the President (EOP); HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

Bills named: S. 137 (112th), H.R. 1050 (112th), H.R. 416 (112th), H.R. 346 (112th)