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S 1729 113th Congress Senate Health Administrative law and regulatory procedures Comprehensive health care Department of Health and Human Services Health care costs and insurance Health care coverage and access

Expanded Consumer Choice Act

Introduced: November 19, 2013 See on congress.gov
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Nov 19, 2013
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Nov 19, 2013
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Expanded Consumer Choice Act - Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to provide a new "copper" level of coverage under qualified health plans, designed to provide benefits that are actuarially equivalent to 50% of the full actuarial value of the benefits provided under the plan. Requires cost-sharing under such a plan to exceed the amount applicable to a plan at the bronze level.

Requires the Secretary of Health Human Services (HHS) to promulgate regulations providing for annual limits on deductibles and cost-sharing for copper-level plans to ensure that the limits are reasonable for every marketplace and to consider the feasibility of the relative plan design in each local insurance marketplace.

Allows qualification of copper-level plans as multi-state plans.

What's happening now November 19, 2013

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

 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 3
All 3 Democratic 2 Independent 1