Better Tools to Lower Costs Act of 2019

Better Tools to Lower Costs Act of 2019

This bill allows beneficiaries to qualify for low-income subsidies under the Medicare prescription drug benefit without having to meet certain resource requirements.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4628 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4628

   To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to eliminate the 
resource requirement with respect to subsidy-eligible individuals under 
                    part D of the Medicare program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 8, 2019

   Ms. Scanlon (for herself, Mr. Welch, and Mr. Brendan F. Boyle of 
Pennsylvania) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on 
   Ways and Means, 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 title XVIII of the Social Security Act to eliminate the 
resource requirement with respect to subsidy-eligible individuals under 
                    part D of the Medicare program.

    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 ``Better Tools to Lower Costs Act of 
2019''.

SEC. 2. ELIMINATING THE RESOURCE REQUIREMENT WITH RESPECT TO SUBSIDY-
              ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUALS UNDER PART D OF THE MEDICARE 
              PROGRAM.

    Section 1860D-14(a)(3)(A)(iii) of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 1395w-114(a)(3)(A)(iii)) is amended by inserting ``in the case 
of a plan year beginning before January 1, 2022,'' before ``meets''.
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