No Carve Out for Congress Act of 2017

No Carve Out for Congress Act of 2017

This bill amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to modify health insurance plan options for Members of Congress elected from a state that receives a federal waiver of essential health benefits under the American Health Care Act of 2017, if that bill is enacted. Such Members shall not be eligible for government health plans and shall be eligible only for health insurance coverage with the lowest actuarial value (which is the plan that has the enrollee pay the highest percentage of cost sharing) in the individual market of that state.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2985 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2985

  To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to restrict 
  Members of Congress who represent a State with an essential health 
   benefits (EHB) waiver, approved under the amendments made by the 
American Health Care Act of 2017, to the lowest actuarial value health 
         insurance coverage that is available under the waiver.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 21, 2017

  Mr. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York introduced the following bill; 
  which was referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in 
 addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to restrict 
  Members of Congress who represent a State with an essential health 
   benefits (EHB) waiver, approved under the amendments made by the 
American Health Care Act of 2017, to the lowest actuarial value health 
         insurance coverage that is available under the waiver.

    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 ``No Carve Out for Congress Act of 
2017''.

SEC. 2. RESTRICTING ACCESS OF CERTAIN MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, WHO 
              REPRESENT A STATE WITH AN AHCA EHB APPROVED WAIVER, TO 
              THE LOWEST ACTUARIAL VALUE HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE 
              AVAILABLE UNDER THE WAIVER.

    Section 1312(d)(3) of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care 
Act (42 U.S.C. 18032(d)(3)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (D)(i), by inserting ``except as 
        provided in subparagraph (E),'' after ``Notwithstanding any 
        other provision of law,''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
                    ``(E) Limiting coverage of members of congress in 
                states with ahca ehb waivers.--In the case of a State 
                that has a waiver approved and in effect under section 
                2701(b) of the Public Health Service Act, as added by 
                section 136(a) of the American Health Care Act of 2017, 
                for the purpose described in paragraph (1)(B) of such 
                section 2701(b) (relating to a waiver of essential 
                health benefits), a Member of Congress who represents 
                such State (or a district in the State)--
                            ``(i) is not eligible, with respect to the 
                        Member's services as a Member of Congress, to 
                        receive coverage under any health benefits plan 
                        under chapter 89 of title 5, United States 
                        Code, and is not eligible for any Government 
                        contribution under such chapter with respect to 
                        any health benefits plan (including health 
                        insurance coverage described in clause (ii)); 
                        and
                            ``(ii) is eligible to enroll in health 
                        insurance coverage in the individual market in 
                        the State under this Act and under such waiver, 
                        but only in such coverage (offered in the area 
                        in which the Member resides) with the lowest 
                        actuarial value of all such coverage in such 
                        area at the time of enrollment (or 
                        reenrollment).''.
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