Health Care Options for All Act

Bill: 115-s-1201
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. McCaskill, Claire [D-MO]
Introduced: 2017-05-22
Policy area: Health
Subjects: District of Columbia

Health care costs and insurance

Health care coverage and access

Income tax credits
Latest action: action_date: 2017-05-22
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-05-22
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Health Care Options for All Act</b></p> This bill amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to require the Department of Health and Human Services to ensure that individuals eligible to purchase coverage through a health insurance exchange who reside where no exchange health plans are available may enroll in coverage offered in the small group market through the Washington, DC exchange.

tv_txt: II 115th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 1201 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES May 22, 2017 Mrs. McCaskill introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance A BILL To allow individuals living in areas without qualified health plans offered through an Exchange to have similar access to health insurance coverage as Members of Congress and congressional staff.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Health Care Options for All Act . 2. Access to coverage for individuals in areas without any available Exchange plans Part 2 of subtitle D of title I of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ( 42 U.S.C. 18031 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following: 1314. Access to coverage for individuals in areas without any available Exchange plans (a) In general (1) Coverage through DC SHOP Exchange Not later than 3 months after the date of enactment of this section, the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury and the Director of the Office of Personnel Management, shall establish a mechanism to ensure that, for any plan year beginning on or after the date described in subsection (c), any individual described in paragraph (2) may enroll in health insurance coverage in the small group market through the Exchange operating in the District of Columbia, including the health insurance coverage that is available to Members of Congress and congressional staff (as defined in section 1312(d)(3)(D)). (2) Individual described An individual described in this paragraph is any individual who— (A) is eligible to purchase health insurance coverage through the Exchange operating in the State of residence of the individual; and (B) resides in a rating area or county in which the Secretary certifies that no qualified health plan is offered through an Exchange established under this title. (b) Premium assistance tax credits and cost-Sharing Any individual described in subsection (a)(2) who enrolls in health insurance coverage through the Exchange operating in the District of Columbia pursuant to subsection (a)(1) shall be eligible for any premium tax credit under section 36B of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or reduced cost-sharing under section 1402, that the individual would otherwise be eligible for if enrolling in health insurance coverage in the individual market through the Exchange operating in the State of the individual. (c) Date described The date described in this subsection is the date on which the Secretary establishes the mechanism under subsection (a)(1). .