H.R.3489: To amend section 1341 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to repeal the funding mechanism for the transitional reinsurance program in the individual market, and for other purposes.

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Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to eliminate the funding mechanism for the three-year transitional reinsurance program, under which group health plans are required to pay a fee to reinsurance entities for plan years beginning January 1, 2014. (The fees are distributed to individual health plans that cover high-risk individuals.) Authorizes appropriations for such reinsurance program instead.

(Source: Library of Congress)

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Date Description
Nov. 15, 2013
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Nov. 14, 2013
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Nov. 14, 2013

Introduced in the House by Pat Tiberi (R-Ohio)

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