Unaffordable Care Act

Unaffordable Care Act

This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from the requirement to maintain minimum essential health coverage an individual who: (1) resides in a location with fewer than two qualified health plans offered through an exchange established under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or (2) was covered under minimum essential coverage for the last month of the preceding year and the premium is at least 125% percent of the premium for that month.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 563 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 563

     To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt certain 
       individuals from the individual health insurance mandate.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 13, 2017

  Mr. Messer introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
     To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt certain 
       individuals from the individual health insurance mandate.

    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 ``Unaffordable Care Act''.

SEC. 2. EXEMPTION FROM THE INDIVIDUAL HEALTH INSURANCE MANDATE FOR 
              CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS.

    (a) In General.--Section 5000A(e) of the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986 is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraphs:
            ``(6) Individuals residing in locations with less than two 
        exchange plans.--Any applicable individual who for any month 
        resides in a location with respect to which there are less than 
        two qualified health plans offered to such individual through 
        an Exchange established under title I of the Patient Protection 
        and Affordable Care Act.
            ``(7) Individuals subject to certain premium increases.--
        Any applicable individual for any month beginning in a calendar 
        year (hereafter in this paragraph referred to as the `exemption 
        month') if--
                    ``(A) such individual was covered under minimum 
                essential coverage for the last month of the preceding 
                calendar year, and
                    ``(B) the premium for such minimum essential 
                coverage for the exemption month is at least 125 
                percent of the premium for such coverage for the month 
                described in subparagraph (A).''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by this section shall apply 
to months beginning after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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