Offering Patients True Individualized Options Now Act of 2013

H.R. 2900 · 113th Congress · Aug 1, 2013 · Lineage

A BILL

To repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010; to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the percentage floor on medical expense deductions, expand the use of tax-preferred health care accounts, and establish a charity care credit; to amend the Social Security Act to create a Medicare Premium Assistance Program, reform EMTALA requirements, and to replace the Medicaid program and the Children’s Health Insurance program with a block grant to the States; to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for cooperative governing of individual and group health insurance coverage offered in interstate commerce; and for other purposes.

Section 1 Short title; table of contents; construction

(a)

Short title— This Act may be cited as the “Offering Patients True Individualized Options Now Act of 2013” or the “OPTION Act of 2013”.

(b)

Table of contents— The table of contents of this Act is as follows:

(c)

Construction— Nothing in this Act shall be construed to preclude or prohibit a health care provider or health insurance issuer from publicly disclosing any pricing of services provided or covered.

Lineage

Aug 1, 2013viewing Introduced in House Mr. Broun of Georgia introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and the Workforce, Natural Resources, the Judiciary, House Administration, Appropriations, and Rules, 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

Offering Patients True Individualized Options Now Act of 2013

Section 1 Short title; table of contents; construction

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