[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 270 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. J. RES. 270

To ensure all residents equal access to quality health care services if 
 a managed competition health plan is enacted by requiring Members of 
  Congress to enroll in the lowest cost health care plan offered in a 
    Health Alliance area, and to impose an excise tax on Members of 
Congress equal to three times any amount the Member pays in health care 
 premiums above the amount paid by enrollees in the lowest cost health 
                 care plan in the Health Alliance area.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 29, 1993

Mr. Stark introduced the following joint resolution; which was referred 
  jointly to the Committees on Ways and Means and House Administration

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                            JOINT RESOLUTION


 
To ensure all residents equal access to quality health care services if 
 a managed competition health plan is enacted by requiring Members of 
  Congress to enroll in the lowest cost health care plan offered in a 
    Health Alliance area, and to impose an excise tax on Members of 
Congress equal to three times any amount the Member pays in health care 
 premiums above the amount paid by enrollees in the lowest cost health 
                 care plan in the Health Alliance area.

Whereas under the Administration health reform proposal all citizens will be 
        able to enroll in one of a number of health insurance plans in the 
        region in which they live (known as an Alliance area);
Whereas the premium rates and quality of these various plans will vary 
        significantly;
Whereas it is essential that lower income families and individuals be assured 
        that plans with the lower premiums offer quality service;
Whereas an easy and automatic way for Members of Congress to determine whether 
        quality of care is being provided to the tens of millions of Americans 
        who enroll in the lower cost plans is for Members of Congress to enroll 
        themselves and their families (spouse and children) in such plans: Now, 
        therefore be it
    Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled,
    Section 1. That all Members of Congress and their families enroll 
in the lowest price health plan in the Alliance area from which they 
are elected.
    Sec. 2. A Member of Congress shall pay an annual excise tax equal 
to three times the annual difference between the health premium which 
the Member of Congress pays and the premium paid by enrollees in the 
lowest cost health plan in the Alliance area from which the Member of 
Congress is elected.

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