Universal Health Care Choice and Access Act

Bill: 110-s-1019
Sponsor: Sen. Coburn, Tom [R-OK]
Introduced: 2007-03-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agriculture and Food
Ambulatory care
Armed Forces and National Security
Capital
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Conflict of interests
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer education
Continuum of care
Corporate finance
Crime and Law Enforcement
Data banks
Department of Health and Human Services
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Employee health benefits
Executive reorganization
Families
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal preemption
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Food stamps
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Government trust funds
Governmental investigations
Health education
Health facilities
Health information systems
Health insurance
Health planning
Higher education
Income tax
Indian medical care
Individual retirement accounts
Insurance agents
Insurance companies
Insurance premiums
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Interstate relations
Kidney diseases
Labor and Employment
Law
Licenses
Managed care
Medicaid
Medical economics
Medical education
Medical fees
Medical malpractice
Medical records
Medical savings accounts
Medicare
Military dependents
Minorities
Nutrition
Physicians
Preventive medicine
Public service advertising
Rehabilitation of the disabled
Right of privacy
Science, Technology, Communications
Self-employed
Social Security Administration
Social Welfare
State laws
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Taxation
Terminal care
Trade regulation
Vaccines
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-28
text: 
Universal Health Care Choice and Access Act - Provides for health promotion and disease prevention activities, including requiring the Secretary of Health and Human Services to convene an interagency coordinating committee to develop a national strategic plan for prevention.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow participants in high deductible health care insurance plans an increased tax deduction for contributions to a health savings account; and (2) allow individual taxpayers a refundable tax credit for health insurance costs paid.

Requires states to establish and operate a qualified high risk pool or a state-designated alternative that ensures access to private health insurance for medically uninsurable individuals.

Health Care Choice Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to apply the laws of the primary state (as designated by the health insurance issuer) to individual health insurance coverage offered by that issuer in the primary state and in any secondary state if certain requirements are met.

 Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to authorize the Secretary to adjust the amount of the Medicare Part B premium for participation in certain healthy behaviors.

Establishes in the Treasury a Medical Retirement Account Fund to distribute retirement benefits to individuals who renounce eligibility for Medicare.

Amends SSA title XIX (Medicaid) to establish a Medicaid Advantage program to provide individuals a medical home where they receive a seamless continuum of medical care and care management that meets certain requirements.

Allows the Secretary to award grants to states for administrative health care tribunals for the resolution of disputes concerning injuries allegedly caused by health care providers.

Amends SSA title XI to create safe harbors from civil and criminal penalties in current anti-kickback laws for providing certain health information technology and training services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-03-28
text: Introduced in Senate