To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to ensure appropriate treatment of Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense health programs.

Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to declare that nothing in such Act or amendments made by such Act shall be construed to affect: (1) any authority under title 38 of the United States Code (veterans' benefits); (2) any authority under chapter 55 of title 10 of the United States Code (medical and dental care for members of the uniformed services); or (3) any health care or health care benefits program provided under the TRICARE program or by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

Declares that the term "minimum essential coverage" includes coverage provided to members of the uniformed services and eligibility for health care provided by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4894 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4894

   To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to ensure 
appropriate treatment of Department of Veterans Affairs and Department 
                      of Defense health programs.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 20, 2010

Mr. Buyer (for himself, Mr. McKeon, Mr. Stearns, Mr. Miller of Florida, 
 Mr. Boozman, Mr. Conaway, Mr. Forbes, Mr. Buchanan, Mr. Lamborn, Mr. 
Moran of Kansas, Mr. Brown of South Carolina, Mr. Roe of Tennessee, Mr. 
   Crenshaw, Mr. Barrett of South Carolina, Mr. Wolf, Mr. Burton of 
   Indiana, Mr. Pence, Mr. Sessions, Mr. Hensarling, Mr. Flake, Mr. 
Culberson, Mrs. Blackburn, Mr. Coble, Mr. Hunter, Mr. Young of Florida, 
 Mr. Bilirakis, and Mr. Bilbray) introduced the following bill; which 
          was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to ensure 
appropriate treatment of Department of Veterans Affairs and Department 
                      of Defense health programs.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. TREATMENT OF DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS AND DEPARTMENT 
              OF DEFENSE HEALTH PROGRAMS.

    Subtitle G of title I of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care 
Act is amended by inserting the following new section:

``SEC. 1564. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS AND DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 
              HEALTH PROGRAMS.

    ``(a) Clarifications With Respect to Certain Programs and 
Authorities.--Nothing in this Act or in the amendments made by this Act 
shall be construed as affecting any of the following:
            ``(1) Any authority under title 38, United States Code.
            ``(2) Any authority under chapter 55 of title 10, United 
        States Code.
            ``(3) Any health care or health care benefit provided under 
        the TRICARE program under chapter 55 of title 10, United States 
        Code, or by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs under the laws 
        administered by such Secretary.
    ``(b) Clarification With Respect to Minimum Essential Coverage.--
For purposes of this Act and the amendments made by this Act, the term 
`minimum essential coverage' includes the following:
            ``(1) Coverage provided under chapter 55 of title 10, 
        United States Code.
            ``(2) Eligibility for health care provided by the Secretary 
        of Veterans Affairs under title 38, United States Code.''.
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