[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 127 (Thursday, July 27, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4457-S4458]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 443. Ms. HIRONO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
her to the bill H.R. 1628, to provide for reconciliation pursuant to 
title II of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 
2017; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. __. REQUIRING MEDICAID COVERAGE FOR CERTAIN ADULTS WITH 
                   HIGH INSURANCE COSTS.

       Beginning with the date of enactment of this Act, each 
     State shall provide medical

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     assistance through the State Medicaid program to any 
     individual residing in the State who is between 50 and 64 
     years of age and who demonstrates that the least expensive 
     private health insurance coverage available to such 
     individual would require the individual to pay premiums that 
     would exceed 9.5 percent of such individual's income.
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