Restoring Access to Medication Act

Bill: 113-s-1647
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Roberts, Pat [R-KS]
Introduced: 2013-11-05
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Digestive and metabolic diseases

Health care costs and insurance

Prescription drugs
Latest action: action_date: 2013-11-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-11-05
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>Restoring Access to Medication Act - Repeals provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that restrict payments from health savings accounts, medical savings accounts, and health flexible spending arrangements for medications to prescription drugs and insulin only (thus allowing payments for over-the-counter medications). </p>

tv_txt: II 113th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 1647 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES November 5, 2013 Mr. Roberts (for himself, Ms. Landrieu , Mr. Isakson , Mr. Johanns , Mr. Inhofe , Mr. Heller , Mr. Hatch , Mr. Enzi , and Mr. Flake ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance A BILL To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to repeal distributions for medicine qualified only if for prescribed drug or insulin.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Restoring Access to Medication Act . 2. Repeal of distributions for medicine qualified only if for prescribed drug or insulin Section 9003 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ( Public Law 111–148 ) and the amendments made by such section are repealed, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 shall be applied as if such section, and amendments, had never been enacted.