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S 1729 113th Congress Senate

Expanded Consumer Choice Act

Official title: A bill to amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to provide further options with respect to levels of coverage under qualified health plans.

Introduced: March 26, 2014 See on congress.gov
Health Administrative law and regulatory proceduresComprehensive health careDepartment of Health and Human ServicesHealth care costs and insuranceHealth care coverage and access
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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
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 Latest action November 19, 2013

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

 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.

 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 3
All 3 Democratic 2 Independent 1
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King, Angus S., Jr.
Maine · Mar 26, 2014
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Kaine, Tim
Virginia · Mar 13, 2014
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Warner, Mark R.
Virginia · Jan 8, 2014
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1729: Expanded Consumer Choice Act. 113th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/113-S-1729/
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