S. 2500 · 114th Congress
Health Care Premium Reduction Act
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This bill amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to require the Department of Health and Human Services to award grants to states to support the purchase of private health insurance by consumers and to stabilize health insurance premiums.
What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in Senate · Feb 4, 2016
Health Care Premium Reduction Act
This bill amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to require the Department of Health and Human Services to award grants to states to support the purchase of private health insurance by consumers and to stabilize health insurance premiums. Priority is given to states with the highest health insurance premiums and such states may be provided bonus payments.
States must use grants to:
- reduce health insurance premiums through activities such as cost-sharing programs to reduce deductibles and out-of-pocket expenses;
- increase the number of individuals with health insurance;
- review premium rates to determine unreasonable premium increases and facilitate reduction of such rates; and
- address health insurance affordability, quality, and accessibility through a waiver of health coverage requirements.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov
About this bill and sources
Official title: Health Care Premium Reduction Act
Latest action (Feb 4, 2016): Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Policy area: Health · Origin: Senate · Introduced: Feb 4, 2016
Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)
No recorded floor vote found.