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S 1617 113th Congress Senate

If You Like Your Health Plan, You Can Keep it Act

Official title: A bill to amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to ensure that individuals can keep their health insurance coverage.

Introduced: November 4, 2013 Introduced by: Johnson, Ron Republican · Wisconsin See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Oct 30, 2013
Introduced in Senate
Oct 30, 2013
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7675-7677)
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 Latest action October 30, 2013

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

If You Like Your Health Plan, You Can Keep it Act - Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) to prohibit anything in the Act from being construed to require an individual to terminate coverage under a group health plan or health insurance coverage in which the individual was enrolled during any part of the period beginning on the date of enactment of PPACA (March 23, 2010) and ending on December 31, 2013.

Allows: (1) continuation of coverage under a group health plan or health insurance in which an individual was enrolled during any part of such period, regardless of whether the individual renews such coverage; (2) family members of the individual to join coverage under such a plan that is renewed; (3) new employees to join a group health plan that provides coverage during any part of such period; and (4) continuation of coverage maintained pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement that was ratified before the end of such period.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1617: If You Like Your Health Plan, You Can Keep it Act. 113th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/113-S-1617/
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