Josephine Butler United States Health Service Act

Bill: 108-hr-3000
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2003-09-04 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Access to health care
Administrative procedure
Ambulances
Ambulatory care
Auditing
Breast cancer
Capital budgets
Capitation (Medical care)
Case management
Charitable contributions
Child health
Childbirth
Chronically ill
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Civil service retirement
Clinical trials
Collection of accounts
Collective bargaining
Commerce
Communication in medicine
Community health services
Comprehensive health care
Conflict of interests
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer complaints
Continuing education
Corporation taxes
Curricula
Day care
Dental care
Department of Health and Human Services
Disabled
Disasters
Discrimination in medical care
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Eminent domain
Employee health benefits
Employee rights
Employee selection
Employee training
Employment tests
Environmental Protection
Environmental health
Environmental monitoring
Environmentally induced diseases
Epidemics
Epidemiology
Executive reorganization
Eye care
Eyeglasses
Families
Family planning and birth control
Federal aid to education
Federal employees
Federal preemption
Financial statements
Generic drugs
Geriatrics
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publications
Government publicity
Government trust funds
Grievance procedures
Health counseling
Health education
Health facilities
Health planning
Hearing aids
Higher education
Home care services
Hospital care
Hospitals
Housing and Community Development
Human experimentation in medicine
Income tax
Industrial relations
Informed consent (Medical law)
Inspectors general
Investment of public funds
Job hunting
Labor and Employment
Labor disputes
Law
Legal services
Licenses
Mastectomy
Maternal health services
Medical economics
Medical education
Medical ethics
Medical malpractice
Medical personnel
Medical records
Medical research
Medical screening
Medical statistics
Medical supplies
Medical tests
Medicare
Mental care facilities
Mental health services
Mental illness
Minorities
Minority health
National health insurance
Nursing homes
Occupational health and safety
Pain
Parent and child
Patient satisfaction
Patients' rights
Personnel management
Pregnant women
Prescription pricing
Presidential appointments
Preventive medicine
Promotions
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public meetings
Quality of care
Regional medical programs
Reproduction
Right of privacy
Rural health
Salaries
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Sick leave
Social Welfare
Social security taxes
Sterilization (Birth control)
Student employment
Student loan funds
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Tax rates
Tax-exempt securities
Taxation
Terminal care
Terminally ill
Transfer of employees
Translating and interpreting
Transportation and Public Works
Whistle blowing
Women
Women's health
Workers' compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Josephine Butler United States Health Service Act - Establishes the United States Health Service (Service) as an independent executive branch entity. Provides that the authority of the Service shall be exercised by a National Health Board of the Service (Board) and by local and regional authorities affiliated with the Board. Requires the Board to establish health care delivery regions.
Affords every user of the Service the right to receive high quality care and supplemental services from any facility within the Service capable of providing such services without charge and without discrimination. Sets forth a list of other basic health rights.
Declares all individuals in the United States eligible to receive health care and supplemental services under this Act. Requires the Service to provide specified services. Provides for the reimbursement of emergency health services costs.
Requires the establishment of health care facilities as necessary to provide services.
Sets forth provisions concerning job categories, certification standards, qualifications, and the education of health workers.
Requires the establishment of a health advocacy program to ensure patients rights. 
Imposes on individuals, estates and trusts, and on corporations additional taxes of specified percentages of the total taxes otherwise imposed, creates the Health Service Trust Fund, and appropriates to such Fund such additional taxes, the Federal Hospital Insurance employment taxes, and a Government contribution equal to 40 percent of the amount so appropriated. Transfers to the Fund all assets and liabilities of the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-09-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2003-09-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
action_date: 2003-09-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, and 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: 2003-09-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, and 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: 2003-09-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, and 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: 2003-09-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and the Workforce, and 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: 2003-09-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-09-04
text: Introduced in House