National Health Insurance Act

Bill: 109-hr-15
Sponsor: Rep. Dingell, John D. [D-MI-15]
Introduced: 2005-01-04 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
Governmental investigations
Health insurance
Higher education
Hospital care
Hospitals
Housing and Community Development
Interest
Judicial review
Law
Liability insurance
Managed care
Medical economics
Medical education
Medical malpractice
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: 2005-01-04
text: 
National Health Insurance Act - Requires that medical services, hospital services, and other personal health services be made available to eligible individuals in all U.S. health-service areas as rapidly as possible. Sets forth minimum income requirements for eligibility. 
 
 Allows health care professionals and hospitals to enter into agreements to furnish services to eligible individuals. 
 
Gives responsibility for administration of the benefits provided under this Act to local administrative committees or officers.
 
Allows a State to assume responsibility for administration of the personal health benefits provided under this Act.
 
Establishes: (1) the National Health Insurance Board in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); and (2) the National Advisory Medical Policy Council.
 
Requires the Secretary of HHS to determine the eligibility of any individual for benefits under this Act.
 
Limits benefits under this Act for an individual to only those services for which the individual is not eligible under Medicare.
 
Requires the Board to: (1) determine the sums to be made available for the provision of personal health-service benefits; and (2) allot amounts to each State based on population, available professional services and facilities, and the cost of compensation.
 
Allows the Board to make grants for the training of professionals providing benefits under this Act.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a value added tax of five percent on each sale of property, performance of services, and importation of property in the United States by a taxable person in a commercial-type transaction. Sets forth exceptions, including for food, housing, medical care, exports, interest, governmental entities, and certain tax-exempt organizations.
 
Establishes the National Health Care Trust Fund and appropriates to it amounts equal to the revenue received by the Treasury from such tax.
 
Requires the Secretary to study and report on the various methods to control the costs of providing personal health benefits under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-01-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-01-04
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: 2005-01-04
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: 2005-01-04
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: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-01-04
text: Introduced in House