MediKids Health Insurance Act of 2005

Bill: 109-hr-3055
Sponsor: Rep. Stark, Fortney Pete [D-CA-13]
Introduced: 2005-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Catastrophic health insurance
Child health
Comprehensive health care
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Government trust funds
Health insurance
Identification devices
Income tax
Insurance premiums
Managed care
Medicaid
Medical screening
Medical tests
Medically uninsured
Medicare
Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
National health insurance
Poor children
Preventive medicine
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Tax rates
Tax refunds
Taxation
Telephone

Summary:
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: 
MediKids Health Insurance Act of 2005 - Amends the Social Security Act to add a new title XXII (Medikids Program) to provide for health insurance coverage for all children born after December 31, 2006, in a program modeled after Medicare that also includes prescription drugs and reduced cost-sharing for low-income children. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, during September of each year, to establish a monthly Medikids premium for the following year.
 
Establishes in the Treasury the Medikids Trust Fund to contain the Medikids premiums collected under the Internal Revenue Code.
 
Amends title XVIII to increase Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MEDPAC) membership to 19.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a Medikids premium for the taxable year on a taxpayer with a dependent enrolled in the MediKids program, with exceptions for very low-income taxpaters.
 
Provides that in the case of a taxpayer who has a MediKid at any time during the taxable year, there shall be allowed as a refundable credit against income taxes an amount equal to the excess of: (1) the amount paid by the taxpayer during the taxable year as cost-sharing; over (2) 5% of the taxpayer's adjusted gross income for the taxable year.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to propose a gradual schedule of progressive tax changes to fund the MediKids program as the number of enrollees grows in the out-years. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-07-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2005-06-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1339-1340)
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2005-06-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2005-06-23
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2005-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-06-23
text: Introduced in House