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Health Care Fairness for All Act

H.R. 3129 · 118th Congress · May 9, 2023 · Lineage

A BILL

To ensure health care fairness and affordability for all Americans through universal access to equitable health insurance tax credits, reformed health savings accounts, and strengthened consumer protections, and for other purposes.

Section 1 Short title; purposes; table of contents

(a)
Short title— This Act may be cited as the “Health Care Fairness for All Act”.
(b)
Purposes— The purposes of this Act are as follows:
(1)
Elimination of individual and employer mandates— To eliminate mandates on individuals and employers, and other tax requirements, imposed under Public Law 111–148.
(2)
Providing States with alternative, affordable coverage options— To provide greater flexibility in providing States with options in making affordable health insurance coverage available by eliminating certain mandates under Public Law 111–148, while retaining essential consumer protections, by promoting health savings accounts to pay for such coverage and long-term care coverage, while permitting States to continue coverage as provided under such public law.
(c)
Table of contents— The table of contents of this Act is as follows:

Sec. 2 Definitions

Except as otherwise provided, in this Act:
(1)
Basic health insurance— The term basic health insurance is defined in section 122(a).
(2)
Default health insurance coverage— The term default health insurance coverage is defined in section 121(b)(4)(B).
(3)
Exchange— The term Exchange means an Exchange established under title I of Public Law 111–148.
(4)
Health insurance coverage; group health plan, etc— The terms defined in section 2791 of the Public Health Service Act, including “health insurance coverage”, “group health plan”“individual market”, shall apply.
(5)
Limited benefit insurance— The term limited benefit insurance is defined in section 122(b).
(6)
Secretary— The term Secretary means the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
(7)
State— The term State includes the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands.