National Health Insurance Act

Bill: 108-hr-15
Sponsor: Rep. Dingell, John D. [D-MI-15]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Advice and consent of the Senate
Agriculture and Food
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer complaints
Cost control
Crime and Law Enforcement
Dental care
Dentists
Department of Health and Human Services
Discrimination in insurance
Discrimination in medical care
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Executive reorganization
Exports
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Gifts
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Health insurance
Higher education
Hospital care
Hospitals
Housing and Community Development
Interest
Judicial review
Law
Medical economics
Medical education
Medical records
Medically uninsured
Medicare
National health insurance
Nurses
Patient satisfaction
Patients' rights
Physicians
Presidential appointments
Right of privacy
Scholarships
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Tax rates
Tax returns
Tax-exempt organizations
Taxation
Value-added tax

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: National Health Insurance Act - Makes medical services available to eligible individuals. Authorizes the National Health Insurance Board (established by this Act) to limit services when personnel, facilities, or funds are inadequate. Allows patient choice of physicians and hospitals.
Allows providers to choose their practice locality and, consistent with State law and professional ethics, reject patients.
Establishes: (1) in the Department of Health and Human Services the National Health Insurance Board; and (2) the National Advisory Medical Policy Council.
Limits, for individuals entitled to benefits under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, benefits under this Act to services for which the individual is not eligible under Medicare.
Authorizes grants to: (1) educational institutions regarding the training of personnel providing or administering benefits; and (2) individuals in courses regarding the provision or administration of benefits. Requires that funds be made available.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a tax on each taxable transaction (the sale of property, performance of services, and importing of property by a taxable person in a commercial-type transaction). Sets the tax rate at zero for specified transactions.
Establishes the National Health Care Trust Fund. Appropriates to the Fund amounts received from the value added tax. Allows the Fund to be used only to carry out the program under this Act.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-02-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-01-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: 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.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: 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.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: 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.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House