<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><BillSummaries>
<item congress="114" measure-type="hr" measure-number="5284" measure-id="id114hr5284" originChamber="HOUSE" orig-publish-date="2016-05-19" update-date="2017-03-21">
<title>World's Greatest Healthcare Plan Act of 2016</title>
<summary summary-id="id114hr5284v00" currentChamber="HOUSE" update-date="2017-03-21">
<action-date>2016-05-19</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p><b>World's Greatest Healthcare Plan Act of 2016</b></p> <p>This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the requirements for individuals to maintain minimum essential coverage and for large employers to offer affordable coverage to full time employees.</p> <p>Health insurance is no longer required to cover preventive care at no cost or include the essential health benefits.</p> <p>Individuals enrolling in health insurance who have not maintained continuous coverage over the previous 12 months are charged an extra 20% on premiums for each consecutive year without coverage, unless the individual is subject to similar state incentives to maintain coverage.</p> <p>States may enroll uninsured residents in high deductible health plans. Individuals must be permitted to opt-out of this coverage.</p> <p>The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) must develop a risk adjustment mechanism for health insurance in the individual market.</p> <p>For residents of a state to qualify for premium subsidies or the health insurance tax credit in this bill, the state must permit health insurance with an annual limit on benefits to be sold on its exchange.</p> <p>The bill establishes an advanceable, refundable health insurance tax credit for taxpayers enrolled in health coverage.</p> <p>States may: (1) apply to HHS to use unclaimed health insurance tax credits for indigent health care; and (2) enroll Medicaid-eligible individuals in health insurance that qualifies for the tax credit instead of in Medicaid, at the individual's option.</p> <p>The bill establishes Roth HSAs (health savings accounts) for paying certain medical expenses and health insurance premiums.</p> <p>The tax deduction for medical expenses is eliminated.</p> This bill amends title XIX (Medicaid) and title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, including to turn federal Medicaid payments into block grants.]]></summary-text>
</summary>
</item>
<dublinCore xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>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.</dc:rights>
<dc:contributor>Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress</dc:contributor>
<dc:description>This file contains bill summaries 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.</dc:description>
</dublinCore>
</BillSummaries>
