Health Security for All Americans Act

Bill: 109-hr-2133
Sponsor: Rep. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI-2]
Introduced: 2005-05-05 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Access to health care
Accreditation (Medical care)
Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Alaska
Bankruptcy
Breast cancer
Budget surpluses
Case management
Child health
Childbirth
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Class actions (Civil procedure)
Clinical trials
Collective bargaining
Commerce
Communication in medicine
Competitive bidding
Comprehensive health care
Confidential communications
Conflict of interests
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer complaints
Consumer education
Consumer protection
Contracts
Corporate mergers
Cost control
Crime and Law Enforcement
Customs administration
Damages
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Labor
Department of the Treasury
Disciplining of employees
Discrimination in employment
Discrimination in insurance
Discrimination in medical care
Dismissal of employees
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Drug approvals
Drug utilization
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Employee health benefits
Employee rights
Employee training
Employers' liability
Evidence (Law)
Executive reorganization
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to child health services
Federal budgets
Federal employees
Federal preemption
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Freedom of speech
Genetic counseling
Genetics
Government Operations and Politics
Government employees' health insurance
Government paperwork
Government trust funds
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Grievance procedures
Gynecology
Hawaiians
Health care industry
Health insurance
Health insurance continuation
Health maintenance organizations
Health surveys
Higher education
Home care services
Hospital care
Hospital personnel
Hours of labor
Housing and Community Development
Human engineering
Humans
Income tax
Indigenous peoples
Infants
Information services
Injunctions
Insurance premiums
Labeling
Labor and Employment
Labor contracts
Law
Legal fees
Legislation
Liability (Law)
Licenses
Liens
Long-term care
Long-term care insurance
Losses
Managed care
Married people
Mastectomy
Maternal health services
Medicaid
Medical economics
Medical education
Medical ethics
Medical fees
Medical malpractice
Medical personnel
Medical records
Medical research
Medical screening
Medical statistics
Medical supplies
Medical tests
Medically uninsured
Medicare
Mental health services
Minorities
Native Americans
Obstetrics
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Parents
Patient satisfaction
Patients' rights
Peer review organizations (Medicine)
Persons
Pharmacists
Physician-patient privilege
Physicians
Poor children
Pregnancy
Pregnant women
Preventive medicine
Punitive damages
Quality of care
Rating of employees
Right of privacy
Rural health
Salaries
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Social security finance
Standards
State laws
Surgery
Tax expenditures
Taxation
Terminal care
Terminally ill
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.
User charges
Wage restitution
Whistle blowing
Women
Women's health
Wrongful death

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: 
Health Security for All Americans Act - Amends the Social Security Act to provide participating States with funding to provide health insurance coverage through State-administered plans targeted at low-income residents.
 
Requires States to implement systems to ensure universal health insurance coverage for their residents by 2010, including by requiring employers to contribute to health insurance premiums for their employees.
 
Requires health plans to: (1) create entities to serve as employers for their home care providers; (2) ensure that enrollees will continue to receive health services if the plan's services are terminated; and (3) supply the State with information on their health care workers.
 
Incorporates the Bipartisan Patient Protection Act, as passed by the Senate on June 29, 2001, and the Patient Safety and Health Care Whistleblower Protection Act of 2001, as introduced on June 27, 2001.
 
Establishes the Health Care Quality, Patient Safety, and Workforce Standards Institute (and a related advisory committee) within the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) with a mission to demonstrate how patient safety issues and workplace conditions are linked to quality patient care, reduce medical errors, and improve patient safety and care.
 
Requires that individuals entitled to Medicare benefits be provided full mental health and substance abuse treatment parity.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct research to identify model programs for the provision of long-term and home health care services.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that funds to implement this Act should be offset by: (1) general revenues available as a result of an on-budget surplus for a fiscal year; (2) direct saving in health care expenditures; and (3) reductions in unnecessary Federal tax benefits available to individuals and large corporations in the maximum tax brackets.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-09-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1908)
action_date: 2005-05-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-05-05
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: 2005-05-05
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: 2005-05-05
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: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House