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<item congress="113" measure-type="s" measure-number="1729" measure-id="id113s1729" originChamber="SENATE" orig-publish-date="2013-11-19" update-date="2014-04-21">
<title>Expanded Consumer Choice Act</title>
<summary summary-id="id113s1729v00" currentChamber="SENATE" update-date="2014-04-21">
<action-date>2013-11-19</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in Senate</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p>Expanded Consumer Choice Act - Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to provide a new &quot;copper&quot; 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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Allows qualification of copper-level plans as multi-state plans.</p>]]></summary-text>
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