Healthcare Consumer Privacy Act of 2015

Healthcare Consumer Privacy Act of 2015

Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to require the Department of Health and Human Services to ensure that individuals who enter personal information on a health exchange website can remove their information from the website if they decide not to apply for health care coverage.

[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1446 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1446

  To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to provide 
  privacy protections that enable certain individuals to remove their 
   profiles from the healthcare.gov website, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 18, 2015

  Mr. Hurt of Virginia (for himself and Mr. Peterson) 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 provide 
  privacy protections that enable certain individuals to remove their 
   profiles from the healthcare.gov website, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Healthcare Consumer Privacy Act of 
2015''.

SEC. 2. ENABLING CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS TO REMOVE THEIR PROFILES FROM THE 
              HEALTHCARE.GOV WEBSITE.

    Section 1311(c)(5) of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care 
Act (42 U.S.C. 18031(c)(5)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A), by striking at the end ``and'';
            (2) by redesignating subparagraph (B) as subparagraph (C); 
        and
            (3) by inserting after subparagraph (A) the following new 
        subparagraph:
                    ``(B) ensure that such Internet portal, whether the 
                healthcare.gov website or a successor website, enables 
                an individual who enters personal information on such 
                website for purposes of enrolling for health care 
                coverage to remove such information from such website 
                if such individual decides not to apply for such 
                enrollment; and''.
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