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To provide affordable, guaranteed private health coverage that will make Americans healthier and can never be taken away. 7/9/2008--Introduced. Healthy Americans Act - Requires each adult to have the opportunity to purchase a Healthy Americans Private Insurance Plan (HAPI plan), which includes employer-sponsored health coverage. Makes individuals who are not enrolled in another specified health plan and who are not opposed to coverage for religious reasons responsible for enrolling themselves and their dependent children in a HAPI plan. Sets forth penalties for failure to enroll. Establishes standardized coverage and state options for HAPI plans. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to promulgate guidelines concerning the benefits, items, and services to be covered. Sets forth requirements for setting premiums. Requires the Secretary to establish the Healthy America Advisory Committee to provide annual recommendations concerning modifications to the benefits,[...] show full description
- 07/09/2008 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- 07/09/2008 - Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Labor, and Oversight and Government Reform, 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.
- 07/09/2008 - Referred to House Energy and Commerce
- 07/09/2008 - Referred to House Ways and Means
- 07/09/2008 - Referred to House Education and Labor
show all actions- 07/09/2008 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- 07/09/2008 - Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Labor, and Oversight and Government Reform, 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.
- 07/09/2008 - Referred to House Energy and Commerce
- 07/09/2008 - Referred to House Ways and Means
- 07/09/2008 - Referred to House Education and Labor
- 07/09/2008 - Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
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