11/2/13: The Affordable Care Act website, healthcare.gov, which enables Americans in 36 states to comparison shop and purchase private insurance, launched on Oct. 1 with major problems. This week, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius testified before Congress about the website. While some Members of Congress are calling for her resignation, others have introduced bills that would delay or exempt individuals from deadlines.
Bills Related to the Affordable Care Act Rollout and Healthcare.gov Problems
Weigh in on these bills that have been recently introduced after the Affordable Care Act's Oct. 1st rollout and the launch of healthcare.gov.
- HR 3425 A bill: To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to delay the individual health insurance mandate and any penalties for violating the individual mandate until after there is a certification that the healthcare.gov website is fully operational.
- HR 3420 A bill: To require any communication using Federal funds to advertise or educate the public on certain provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Healthcare and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 to state that such communication was produced at taxpayer expense.
- HR 3419 A bill: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt certain small businesses from the employer health insurance mandate and to modify the definition of full-time employee for purposes of such mandate.
- HR 3406 If You Like Your Health Care Plan You Can Keep It Act: To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to ensure that individuals can keep their health insurance coverage.
- HR 3376 Fairness for Lost Coverage Act: To provide a 12-month exemption from the health insurance mandate for individuals whose employer-sponsored health plan coverage or individual health insurance coverage is terminated for a plan year beginning during 2014.
- S 1629 “Show Your Exemption” Act : to require the disclosure of determinations with respect to which Congressional staff will be required to obtain health insurance coverage through an Exchange.
- HR 3429 A bill: To protect personal and financial information by requiring certain certifications by entities awarded funds under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act for the operation of a Navigator program or certain other Exchange activities.
- HR 3373 Healthcare.gov Spending Accountability Act : To prohibit incurring further obligations with respect to the healthcare.gov website without offsetting savings.
- HR 3367 A bill: to delay the application of the health insurance provider annual fee until 2016 and to provide a process to return to consumers any amounts attributable to the expected application of the annual fee to 2014 or 2015.
- HR 3362 Exchange Information Disclosure Act: to require transparency in the operation of American Health Benefit Exchanges. (And in the Senate, S 1590.)
- HR 3359 Delay Until Fully Functional Act: To provide for a delay of the individual mandate under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act until the American Health Benefit Exchanges are functioning properly. (And in the Senate, S 1592.)
- HR 3358 Fairness for Individuals Using Exchange Websites Act: To provide for an exemption from the individual mandate under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act for individuals residing in States in which the Exchange Websites are not fully functional.
- HR 3350 Keep Your Health Plan Act: To authorize health insurance issuers to continue to offer for sale current individual health insurance coverage in satisfaction of the minimum essential health insurance coverage requirement.
- HR 3348 Obamacare Choice Act : to make the individual health insurance mandate voluntary in 2014.
- HR 3338 Fairness In Failed Federal Exchange Act: To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to provide, because of problems relating to the operation of Exchanges, for a hardship exemption from the individual mandate for months of noncoverage.
Please keep in mind that highlighting a bill doesn't imply a POPVOX endorsement in any way. Rather, we're simply trying to offer one more way to stay informed of an overwhelmingly complex legislative system.
