Title: Seniors Have Eyes, Ears, and Teeth Act
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Seniors Have Eyes, Ears, and Teeth Act
This bill expands Medicare coverage to include eyeglasses, hearing aids, and dental care.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 576 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 576

 To expand Medicare coverage to include eyeglasses, hearing aids, and 
                              dental care.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 15, 2019

Ms. Roybal-Allard (for herself, Mr. Aguilar, Mrs. Beatty, Mr. Bishop of 
    Georgia, Mr. Blumenauer, Ms. Bonamici, Mr. Brendan F. Boyle of 
 Pennsylvania, Ms. Brownley of California, Mrs. Bustos, Mr. Carson of 
 Indiana, Ms. Judy Chu of California, Mr. Cicilline, Ms. Clarke of New 
 York, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Connolly, Mr. Correa, Mr. DeFazio, Ms. DeLauro, 
 Ms. DelBene, Mr. DeSaulnier, Mr. Deutch, Mrs. Dingell, Mr. Espaillat, 
  Mr. Foster, Mr. Gallego, Mr. Garamendi, Mr. Gonzalez of Texas, Mr. 
Grijalva, Mr. Heck, Mr. Higgins of New York, Ms. Jackson Lee, Ms. Kelly 
 of Illinois, Mr. Kilmer, Mr. Langevin, Mr. Larsen of Washington, Mr. 
    Larson of Connecticut, Ms. Lee of California, Mr. Loebsack, Mr. 
   Lowenthal, Mr. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York, Ms. Matsui, Ms. 
    McCollum, Mr. McEachin, Ms. Meng, Ms. Moore, Mr. Moulton, Mrs. 
  Napolitano, Ms. Norton, Mr. O'Halleran, Mr. Pocan, Miss Rice of New 
   York, Mr. Ruiz, Mr. Rush, Mr. Ryan, Mr. Sablan, Mr. Sarbanes, Ms. 
Schakowsky, Mr. Schiff, Mr. Scott of Virginia, Mr. Serrano, Ms. Sewell 
    of Alabama, Mr. Sherman, Mr. Soto, Mr. Suozzi, Mr. Swalwell of 
  California, Mr. Takano, Mr. Thompson of Mississippi, Ms. Titus, Mr. 
Tonko, Mrs. Torres of California, Mr. Veasey, Mr. Vela, Ms. Velazquez, 
 Ms. Wasserman Schultz, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Mr. Welch, Ms. Wilson of 
  Florida, Mr. Peters, and Mr. Ted Lieu of California) introduced the 
   following bill; which was 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

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                                 A BILL


 
 To expand Medicare coverage to include eyeglasses, hearing aids, and 
                              dental care.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Seniors Have Eyes, Ears, and Teeth 
Act''.

SEC. 2. EXPANSION OF MEDICARE COVERAGE.

    Section 1862(a) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395y(a)) is 
amended--
            (1) in paragraph (7) by striking ``, eyeglasses'' through 
        ``hearing aids or examinations therefor,''; and
            (2) in paragraph (12) by striking ``where such expenses are 
        for services in connection with the care, treatment, filling, 
        removal, or replacement of teeth or structures directly 
        supporting teeth, except that''.
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