Medicare for America Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-2452
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2019-05-01 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Abortion
Accounting and auditing
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Appropriations
Child health
Civil actions and liability
Competition and antitrust
Comprehensive health care
Congressional officers and employees
Congressional oversight
Consumer affairs
Corporate finance and management
Dental care
Department of Health and Human Services
Digestive and metabolic diseases
Disability and paralysis
Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
Drug, alcohol, tobacco use
Emergency medical services and trauma care
Employee benefits and pensions
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Employment taxes
Evidence and witnesses
Executive agency funding and structure
Family planning and birth control
Federal preemption
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
Government studies and investigations
Government trust funds
HIV/AIDS
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health care quality
Health facilities and institutions
Health information and medical records
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Health promotion and preventive care
Health technology, devices, supplies
Hearing, speech, and vision care
Higher education
Home and outpatient care
Hospital care
Income tax deductions
Income tax rates
Indian social and development programs
Inflation and prices
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Judges
Labor-management relations
Lawyers and legal services
Licensing and registrations
Long-term, rehabilitative, and terminal care
Manufacturing
Marketing and advertising
Medicaid
Medical education
Medical research
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Medicare
Members of Congress
Mental health
Military medicine
Minority health
Nursing
Nutrition and diet
Performance measurement
Prescription drugs
Product safety and quality
Public contracts and procurement
Research and development
Sales and excise taxes
Sex and reproductive health
Sexually transmitted diseases
State and local government operations
Student aid and college costs
Telephone and wireless communication
Veterans' medical care
Women's health
Worker safety and health

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-01
text: 

Medicare for America Act of 

2019

 
This bill establishes several health insurance programs and otherwise modifies certain requirements relating to health care coverage, costs, and services.
 
In particular, the bill establishes a national health insurance program to be administered by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Among other requirements, the program must (1) cover all U.S. residents; (2) cover specified items and services, including hospital services, prescription drugs, dental services, and home- and community-based long-term care; and (3) be fully implemented in 2023. HHS must also offer a transitional public health option that provides certain minimum coverage through health insurance exchanges in 2021 and 2022.
 
The bill also makes a series of other changes to health care and tax provisions. For example, the bill (1) allows federal funds to be used for abortions; (2) sunsets a specified tax reform law that, among other things, repealed the penalty for failing to maintain minimum essential health coverage; and (3) prohibits excessive prices for prescription drugs and medical devices, as determined by a newly established federal regulatory board.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-05-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet.
action_date: 2019-05-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States.
action_date: 2019-05-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2019-05-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Education and Labor, the Judiciary, Natural Resources, and House Administration, 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: 2019-05-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Education and Labor, the Judiciary, Natural Resources, and House Administration, 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: 2019-05-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Education and Labor, the Judiciary, Natural Resources, and House Administration, 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: 2019-05-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Education and Labor, the Judiciary, Natural Resources, and House Administration, 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: 2019-05-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Education and Labor, the Judiciary, Natural Resources, and House Administration, 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: 2019-05-01
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Education and Labor, the Judiciary, Natural Resources, and House Administration, 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: 2019-05-01
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-05-01
text: Introduced in House