Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act

Bill: 109-hr-676
Sponsor: Rep. Conyers, John, Jr. [D-MI-14]
Introduced: 2005-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Accreditation (Medical care)
Advice and consent of the Senate
Ambulatory care
Appropriations
Armed Forces and National Security
Building construction
Capital budgets
Capital investments
Capitation (Medical care)
Chiropractic and chiropractors
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Clinics
Coinsurance
Commerce
Community health services
Compensation (Law)
Comprehensive health care
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Dental care
Dentists
Department of Health and Human Services
Dislocated workers
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electronic data interchange
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Executive reorganization
Eye care
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Federal aid to education
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Generic drugs
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Group medical practice
Health counseling
Health education
Health facilities
Health insurance
Health insurance portability
Health maintenance organizations
Health planning
Higher education
Home care services
Hospital care
Hospital rates
Hospitals
Identification devices
Income tax
Indian medical care
Insurance premiums
Investments
Investors
Job hunting
Labor and Employment
Law
Licenses
Long-term care
Long-term care insurance
Managed care
Medicaid
Medical economics
Medical education
Medical fees
Medical personnel
Medical records
Medical residents
Medical supplies
Medically uninsured
Medicare
Mental health services
Mental illness
Midwives
Minorities
Minority health
National health insurance
Nonprofit organizations
Nurse practitioners
Nursing homes
Occupational retraining
Occupational therapy
Optometry
Osteopathy and osteopaths
Patients' rights
Payroll deductions
Physicians
Physicians' assistants
Poor children
Prescription pricing
Presidential appointments
Preventive medicine
Prosthesis
Psychologists
Public health
Quality of care
Right of privacy
Salaries
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
State laws
Tax rates
Tax-exempt securities
Taxation
Veterans' medical care
Withholding tax

Summary:
action_date: 2005-02-08
text: 
United States National Health Insurance Act (or the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act) - Establishes the United States National Health Insurance Program (the Program) to provide all individuals residing in the United States and in U.S. territories with free health care that includes all medically necessary care, such as primary care and prevention, prescription drugs, emergency care, and mental health services.
 
Prohibits an institution from participating in the Program unless it is a public or nonprofit institution. Allows nonprofit health maintenance organizations (HMOs) that actually deliver care in their own facilities to participate in the Program. 
Gives patients the freedom to choose from participating physicians and institutions. 
Prohibits a private health insurer from selling health insurance coverage that duplicates the benefits provided under this Act. Allows such insurers to sell benefits that are not medically necessary, such as cosmetic surgery benefits. 
Sets forth methods to pay hospitals and health professionals for services. Prohibits financial incentives between HMOs and physicians based on utilization. 
 
Authorizes appropriations and provides for appropriated sums to be paid for: (1) by vastly reducing paperwork; (2) by requiring a rational bulk procurement of medications; (3) from existing sources of Government revenues for health care; (4) by increasing personal income taxes on the top five percent income earners; (5) by instituting a modest payroll tax; and (6) by instituting a small tax on stock and bond transactions. 
 
Requires the Program to give first priority in retraining and job placement to individuals whose jobs are eliminated due to reduced administration. 
 
Establishes a National Board of Universal Quality and Access to advise the Secretary and the Director to ensure quality, access, and affordability. 
Provides for the eventual integration of the health programs of the Department of Veterans' Affairs and the Indian Health Service into the Program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-05-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E685-686)
action_date: 2005-04-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-02-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-02-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2005-02-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Resources, and Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2005-02-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Resources, and Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2005-02-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Resources, and Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2005-02-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Resources, and Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2005-02-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Resources, and Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2005-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-02-08
text: Introduced in House