3.0.0 100 2023-01-15T21:19:32Z 2023-01-15T21:19:32Z Senate S S 2003-01-07 108 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2003-01-07T23:10:17Z 2003-01-07 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2003-01-07 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S78-80) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2003-01-07 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress C001035 Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME] Susan Collins R ME M. N L000550 Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA] MARY LANDRIEU D LA 2003-01-07 True Health Access to health care Administrative procedure Agriculture and Food Aid to dependent children Block grants Caregivers Child nutrition Chronically ill Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues Commerce Community health services Conflict of interests Congress Congressional reporting requirements Consumer education Consumer protection Cooperative societies Crime and Law Enforcement Disabled Discrimination in insurance Discrimination in medical care Drug abuse Economics and Public Finance Education Elementary and secondary education Employee health benefits Excise tax Families Federal aid to education Federal aid to health facilities Finance and Financial Sector Fines (Penalties) Food stamps Government Operations and Politics Government contractors Government paperwork Government procurement Government trust funds Grants-in-aid Health care fraud Health education Health insurance Health planning Higher education Homeless Hospital care Hospitals Housing and Community Development Immigrant health Immigration Income tax Indexing (Economic policy) Insurance premiums Labor and Employment Law Legislation Lifestyle Long-term care Long-term care insurance Marketing Maternal health services Medicaid Medical economics Medical education Medical fees Medically uninsured Medicare Mental health services Nonprofit organizations Nursing Nutrition Obesity Parents Part-time employment Physical education and training Physicians Pregnant women Preventive medicine Public health personnel Quality of care Reinsurance Retiree health benefits Rural health Scholarships School health programs School lunch program Self-employed Signs and symbols Small business Smoking Social Welfare Sports and Recreation Student loan funds Subsidies Tax credits Tax deductions Tax exclusion Tax penalties Tax refunds Tax returns Taxation Urban affairs Urban areas Welfare eligibility Welfare work participation Withholding tax Women Health 00 2003-01-07 Introduced in Senate 2006-11-28T17:35:40Z Targets small businesses through tax credits for employee health insurance expenses and grants for health insurance purchasing groups, information dissemination, and access innovation.

Targets individuals and families through health insurance cost credits and full premium deductibility for the self-employed. Renames the State Children's Health Insurance program as the FamilyCare program and revises the program, providing coverage for certain parents and optional coverage of legal immigrants and children through age 20 under the program and Medicaid. Revises restrictions, procedures, and allotments. Amends the Public Health Service Act to award State grants for the creation of high risk pools.

Expresses the sense of the Senate that appropriations for consolidated health centers and the National Health Service Corps under the Public Health Service Act should be doubled over the next five fiscal years.

Targets rural and underserved areas through revisions to the loan repayment and scholarship programs of the National Health Service Corps.

Targets long-term care through Internal Revenue Code amendments concerning specified credits, deductions, and model provisions.

Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) make grants to States for community partnership healthy lifestyle activities and small business worksite wellness programs; (2) expand comprehensive school health education programs; and (3) establish Medicare demonstration projects providing bonus payments for high-quality, low-cost inpatient hospital or physician's services and clinical practitioners to hospitals serving beneficiaries in underserved areas.]]>

Access to Affordable Health Care Act Display Title Access to Affordable Health Care Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to expand access to affordable health care and to strengthen the health care safety net and make health care services more available in rural and underserved areas. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Access to Affordable Health Care Act Introduced in Senate 2003-01-07T05:00:00Z 2003-01-07 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.