American Health Security Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1200
Sponsor: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2003-03-11 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Access to health care
Administrative remedies
Admission of nonimmigrants
Advice and consent of the Senate
Agriculture and Food
Alcoholism
Aliens
Ambulances
Ambulatory care
Anesthetics
Armed Forces and National Security
Block grants
Capital budgets
Capitation (Medical care)
Case management
Case mix (Medical care)
Chemotherapy
Child health
Chronically ill
Cigarettes
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Communicable diseases
Communication in medicine
Community health services
Community organization
Competitive bidding
Comprehensive health care
Computer software
Computers
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer complaints
Consumer organizations
Consumer price indexes
Cost control
Cost effectiveness
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal investigation
Data banks
Dental care
Dentistry
Department of Health and Human Services
Disability insurance
Disabled
Discrimination in insurance
Discrimination in medical care
Dislocated workers
Drug abuse
Drug abuse prevention
Drug abuse treatment
Drug approvals
Drug industry
Drug therapy
Drug utilization
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electronic data interchange
Electronic government information
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Employee health benefits
Environmental Protection
Environmental health
Excise tax
Executive reorganization
Families
Family medicine
Family planning and birth control
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to child health services
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to research
Federal employees
Federal preemption
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Food safety
Foodborne diseases
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Free ports and zones
Government Operations and Politics
Government employees' health insurance
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Government trust funds
Grievance procedures
Gynecology
Health care fraud
Health education
Health facilities
Health insurance
Health insurance continuation
Health insurance portability
Health planning
Health services administration
Higher education
Home care services
Hospital care
Hospital personnel
Hospitals
Housing and Community Development
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Identification devices
Immigration
Income tax
Inspectors general
Insurance premiums
Interstate relations
Labor and Employment
Labor unions
Law
Licenses
Long-term care insurance
Maternal health services
Medicaid
Medical economics
Medical education
Medical ethics
Medical fees
Medical laboratories
Medical malpractice
Medical research
Medical residents
Medical screening
Medical statistics
Medical supplies
Medical technology
Medical tests
Medically uninsured
Medicare
Mental health services
Midwives
Military dependents
Military medicine
Nonprofit organizations
Nurse practitioners
Nurses
Nursing education
Nursing homes
Nutrition
Obstetrics
Occupational health and safety
Ombudsman
Patients' rights
Pharmacies
Pharmacists
Physicians
Physicians' assistants
Potable water
Prescription pricing
Presidential appointments
Preventive medicine
Product safety
Prosecution
Public health
Public health personnel
Quality of care
Railroad employees
Regional medical programs
Research centers
Rural health
School health programs
Science, Technology, Communications
Sexually transmitted diseases
Smokeless tobacco
Social Welfare
Standards
State budgets
Tax credits
Tax rates
Taxation
Tobacco tax
Transportation and Public Works
Tuberculosis
Urban affairs
Vending machines
Violence
Vital statistics
Vocational rehabilitation
Water Resources Development
Water quality
Welfare fraud
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2003-03-11
text: American Health Security Act of 2003 - Establishes the American Health Security Program to be administered by the States. Requires a State to establish a State health security program (program) to receive Federal health care funding.
Entitles every individual who is a U.S. resident and is a U.S. citizen or national or a lawful resident alien to benefits under a program. Makes benefits portable.
Supersedes titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act, the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, and the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS).
Prohibits: (1) deductibles, coinsurance, or copayments for acute care and preventive benefits, subject to exception; (2) providers from charging a patient for covered services; and (3) duplicative private insurance.
Considers a health care provider to be qualified if the provider is licensed or certified and meets State law requirements, Federal requirements, and additional standards specified by the Board.
Establishes the American Health Security Standards Board (the Board) to develop policies and procedures for enrollment, benefits, provider participation, national and State funding levels, assisting programs with planning for capital expenditures and service delivery, and other functions. Mandates uniform reporting standards.
Establishes the American Health Security Quality Council to review and evaluate: (1) practice guidelines; (2) standards of quality, performance measures, and medical review criteria; and (3) develop minimum competence criteria.
Directs the Board to establish a national health security budget specifying the total expenditures to be made by the Federal Government and the States for covered health care services.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to create the American Health Security Trust Fund and appropriates to the Fund specified tax liabilities and current health program receipts.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-03-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H853-854)
action_date: 2003-04-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-04-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Civil Service and Agency Organization.
action_date: 2003-03-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2003-03-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Government Reform, and Armed Services, 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: 2003-03-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Government Reform, and Armed Services, 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: 2003-03-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Government Reform, and Armed Services, 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: 2003-03-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Government Reform, and Armed Services, 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: 2003-03-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Government Reform, and Armed Services, 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: 2003-03-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-03-11
text: Introduced in House