America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 United States Congress
- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
To provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF DIVISIONS, TITLES, AND SUBTITLES. [edit]
- (a) Short Title.—
- This Act may be cited as the ``America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009´´.
- (b) Table of Divisions, Titles, and Subtitles.—
- This Act is divided into divisions, titles, and subtitles as follows:
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- TITLE I—PROTECTIONS AND STANDARDS FOR QUALIFIED HEALTH BENEFITS PLANS
- Subtitle A—General Standards
- Subtitle B—Standards Guaranteeing Access to Affordable Coverage
- Subtitle C—Standards Guaranteeing Access to Essential Benefits
- Subtitle D—Additional Consumer Protections
- Subtitle E—Governance
- Subtitle F—Relation to Other Requirements; Miscellaneous
- Subtitle G—Early Investments
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- TITLE II—HEALTH INSURANCE EXCHANGE AND RELATED PROVISIONS
- Subtitle A—Health Insurance Exchange
- Subtitle B—Public Health Insurance Option
- Subtitle C—Individual Affordability Credits
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- TITLE III—SHARED RESPONSIBILITY
- Subtitle A—Individual Responsibility
- Subtitle B—Employer Responsibility
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- TITLE IV—AMENDMENTS TO INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986
- Subtitle A—Shared Responsibility
- Subtitle B—Credit for Small Business Employee Health Coverage Expenses
- Subtitle C—Disclosures To carry out health insurance exchange subsidies
- Subtitle D—Other Revenue Provisions
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- TITLE I—IMPROVING HEALTH CARE VALUE
- Subtitle A—Provisions related to Medicare PART A
- Subtitle B—Provisions Related to PART B
- Subtitle C—Provisions Related to Medicare PARTS A and B
- Subtitle D—Medicare Advantage Reforms
- Subtitle E—Improvements to Medicare PART D
- Subtitle F—Medicare Rural Access Protections
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- TITLE II—MEDICARE BENEFICIARY IMPROVEMENTS
- Subtitle A—Improving and Simplifying Financial Assistance for Low Income Medicare Beneficiaries
- Subtitle B—Reducing Health Disparities
- Subtitle C—Miscellaneous Improvements
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- TITLE III—PROMOTING PRIMARY CARE, MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES, AND COORDINATED CARE
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- TITLE IV—QUALITY
- Subtitle A—Comparative Effectiveness Research
- Subtitle B—Nursing Home Transparency
- Subtitle C—Quality Measurements
- Subtitle D—Physician Payments Sunshine Provision
- Subtitle E—Public Reporting on Health Care-Associated Infections
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- TITLE V—MEDICARE GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION
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- TITLE VI—PROGRAM INTEGRITY
- Subtitle A—Increased Funding to Fight Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
- Subtitle B—Enhanced Penalties for Fraud and Abuse
- Subtitle C—Enhanced Program and Provider Protections
- Subtitle D—Access to Information Needed to Prevent Fraud, Waste, and Abuse
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- TITLE VII—MEDICAID AND CHIP
- Subtitle A—Medicaid and Health Reform
- Subtitle B—Prevention
- Subtitle C—Access
- Subtitle D—Coverage
- Subtitle E—Financing
- Subtitle F—Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
- Subtitle G—Puerto Rico and the Territories
- Subtitle H—Miscellaneous
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- TITLE VIII—REVENUE-RELATED PROVISIONS
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- TITLE IX—MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
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- TITLE I—COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS
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- TITLE II—WORKFORCE
- Subtitle A—Primary Care Workforce
- Subtitle B—Nursing Workforce
- Subtitle C—Public Health Workforce
- Subtitle D—Adapting Workforce to Evolving Health System Needs
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- TITLE III—PREVENTION AND WELLNESS
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- TITLE IV—QUALITY AND SURVEILLANCE
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- TITLE V—OTHER PROVISIONS
- Subtitle A—Drug Discount for Rural and Other Hospitals
- Subtitle B—School-Based Health Clinics
- Subtitle C—National Medical Device Registry
- Subtitle D—Grants for Comprehensive Programs to Provide Education to Nurses and Create a Pipeline to Nursing
- Subtitle E—States Failing to Adhere to Certain Employment Obligations
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External Links [edit]
- Additional Committee amendments made since the introduction of H.R. 3200 in Congress (July 14, 2009):
