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S. 2021 115th Congress Senate

Health Care Choice Act of 2017

Official title: A bill to repeal title I of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for cooperative governing of i… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: A bill to repeal title I of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for cooperative governing of individual health insurance coverage offered in interstate commerce.

Introduced: October 26, 2017 Introduced by: Ted Cruz Republican · Texas See on congress.gov
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It never became law before the 115th Congress (2017–2018) adjourned, and bills don't carry over to the next Congress. It would have to be reintroduced. You can still save it for reference, but it won't receive updates.
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Oct 26, 2017
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Health Care Choice Act of 2017

This bill repeals the health insurance and health coverage expansion requirements of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and related provisions of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. Provisions of law amended or repealed by those provisions are restored.

This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to provide that the laws of a state designated by a health insurer (primary state) apply to individual health insurance coverage offered by that insurer in any state (secondary state) if the coverage, states, and insurer comply with the conditions of this bill. Insurers are exempted from any secondary state's laws that would prohibit or regulate the operation of the insurer in that state. The primary state is given sole jurisdiction to enforce its covered laws in any secondary state.

The Government Accountability Office must study the effect of this bill on specified health insurance issues.

 Related & companion bills 3
  • S 1516 A bill to expand health care choices by allowing Americans to buy health care coverage across State lines.
  • HR 3278 To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for cooperative governing of individual health insurance coverage.
  • HR 314 Health Care Choice Act of 2017
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 2021: Health Care Choice Act of 2017. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-2021/
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"S. 2021: Health Care Choice Act of 2017." 115th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-2021/.
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