Health Insurance Accountability Act of 2013 - Repeals the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and the health care provisions of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, effective on the date on which a study reported by the Comptroller General (GAO) determines that the number of individuals who are uninsured exceeds the number of individuals who were uninsured on the date of enactment of the PPACA. Requires subsequent studies and reports every 60 days until the Comptroller General makes such a determination.
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), if a determination is made on the basis of the last such report submitted during a fiscal year that the number of uninsured has decreased as compared to the number on the date of PPACA enactment, to reduce the unobligated funding for the following, according to a specified ratio:
Deems such amounts to rescinded and permanently cancelled for purposes of debt reduction.
[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1894 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
113th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 1894
To provide for the repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care
Act if it is determined that the Act has resulted in increasing the
number of uninsured individuals.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
December 20, 2013
Mr. Cochran (for himself, Mr. Barrasso, Mr. Burr, Mr. Chambliss, Mr.
Enzi, Mr. Inhofe, Mr. Roberts, and Mr. Wicker) introduced the following
bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance
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A BILL
To provide for the repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care
Act if it is determined that the Act has resulted in increasing the
number of uninsured individuals.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Health Insurance Accountability Act
of 2013''.
SEC. 2. REPEAL OF PPACA.
(a) In General.--The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
(Public Law 111-148) and title I and subtitle B of title II of the
Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2011 (Public Law 111-
152) shall be repealed effective on the date on which the Comptroller
General report under subsection (b) determines that, at any point in
time after the date of enactment of this Act, the number of individuals
in the United States who are uninsured exceeds the number of
individuals who were uninsured on the date of enactment of the Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act.
(b) Reports.--
(1) In general.--Not later than 30 days after the date of
enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United
States, in consultation with the Census Bureau, shall conduct a
study to determine the number of individuals in the United
States who are uninsured, and submit to the appropriate
committees of Congress a report concerning the results of such
study, including both the number of individuals in the United
States who are determined to be currently uninsured and the
number of individuals in the United States who were uninsured
on the date of enactment of the Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act.
(2) Subsequent studies and reports.--The Comptroller
General shall conduct one or more subsequent studies every 60
days (and submit reports based on the results of such studies)
until the Comptroller General makes a determination that the
number of individuals in the United States who are uninsured
exceeds the number of individuals who were uninsured on the
date of enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care
Act.
(3) Sunset.--No reports shall be submitted under this
section after the date that is 5 years after the date of
enactment of this Act.
(c) Transfer of Funding.--
(1) In general.--If, based on the last report submitted
during a fiscal year under subsection (b), the Comptroller
General of the United States determines that the number of
uninsured individuals for such fiscal year has decreased as
compared to the number of uninsured individuals on the date of
enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,
the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall reduce the
funding described in paragraph (3)(A) by an amount determined
in accordance with paragraph (2), and such amount shall be
rescinded and permanently cancelled for the purpose of debt
reduction.
(2) Amount.--The amount determined under this paragraph for
a fiscal year shall be equal to the amount which bears the same
ratio to the total amount of funding for such fiscal year as
described in paragraph (3)(A) as the total number of uninsured
individuals determined for such fiscal year bears to the total
number of uninsured individuals on the date of enactment of
such Act.
(3) Funding described.--
(A) In general.--The funding described in this
section includes--
(i) the amount provided for under section
2793 of the Public Health Service Act (42
U.S.C. 300gg-93) for the fiscal year involved
and which remains unobligated;
(ii) the amount provided for under section
1311 of the Patient Protection and Affordable
Care Act (42 U.S.C. 18031) for the fiscal year
involved and which remains unobligated; and
(iii) the amount provided for under section
1005 of the Health Care and Education
Reconciliation Act of 2010 (Public Law 111-152)
for the fiscal year involved and which remains
unobligated.
(B) Reductions.--With respect to any reductions
required to be made under this subsection for a fiscal
year, each amount in funding described in subparagraph
(A) shall be reduced by the pro rata percentage
required to reduce the total amount of such spending by
the amount required under this subsection for the
fiscal year involved.
(d) Definition.--In this section, the term ``uninsured'' with
respect to an individual, means an individual lawfully present in the
United States who is not covered by health insurance.
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Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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