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<item congress="113" measure-type="hr" measure-number="4735" measure-id="id113hr4735" originChamber="HOUSE" orig-publish-date="2014-05-22" update-date="2014-08-28">
<title>Health Care Fairness and Stability Act</title>
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<action-date>2014-05-22</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p>Health Care Fairness and Stability Act - Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) to provide a temporary shift in the scheduled collection of payments for the transitional reinsurance program intended to help stabilize premiums for coverage in the individual health insurance markets from 2014 through 2016.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Amends PPACA to delay the collection of reinsurance payments from health insurance issuers and third party administrators of certain self-insured group health plans until January 1, 2018.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Amends PPACA to change the formula for determining the amount of contributions collected for payments to health insurance issuers that cover high risk individuals in the individual market. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;</p> </p>]]></summary-text>
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