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Boustany (LA)
| Would amend title XXI of the Social Security Act (SCHIP) to require states to report HEDIS (Health Plan Employer Data Information Set) primary care access measures in annual report as well as efforts to avoid displacement of private health coverage. It also expresses the sense of Congress that (1) each state having a child health plan under title XXI should use consumer satisfaction surveys developed by the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems to measure the extent to which eligible children have access to physicians and (2) the results of such surveys should be included in annual reports submitted to the Secretary. | Submitted | |
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Gingrey (GA)
| Would add an additional section to the bill to institute a gross income cap of 250% for SCHIP or Medicaid eligibility. | Rejected | Defeated by voice vote |
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Fortenberry (NE)
| Would require that all state SCHIP programs make available to families of eligible children the option to use SCHIP funds for the purchase of family health insurance obtained in the individual (non-employer) market. It also aims to ease administrative barriers and require the offering of premium assistance for employer-sponsored insurance coverage for eligible children. | Rejected | Defeated by voice vote |
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Price (GA)
| Would authorize SCHIP for five years and provide a health care tax credit for children. Would require outreach and coverage of low-income children, alter citizenship documentation requirements, limit eligibility on net assets, and expand health care coverage through premium assistance and encourage state health care initiatives. | Rejected | Defeated by voice vote |
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Boren (OK)
| Would change the effective date of the Medicare restriction on physician-owned and specialty hospitals from January 1, 2009, to July 1, 2010. It also would reduce the end year authorization of the bill by sixty days. | Rejected | Defeated 2y - 9n |
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Biggert (IL)
| Would require states to collect data to measure coverage of eligible children at various income levels. It also would require states to draft and implement a plan approved by the Health and Human Services Secretary intended to ensure coverage of eligible children. Finally, it provides that states achieve coverage of at least 90% of those children in families under 200% of the poverty level before states can use SCHIP funds to extend coverage to those with higher incomes. | Rejected | Defeated by voice vote |
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Blackburn (TN)
| Would phase-out coverage of non-pregnant adults under CHIP. | Submitted | |
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Deal (GA)
| Would require the state plans to specify how they will achieve 90 percent coverage of the low-income children. | Rejected | Defeated by voice vote |
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Deal (GA)
| Strikes the section relating to legal immigrants. | Submitted | |
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Deal (GA)
| Imposes citizenship documentation requirements upon benefit recipients. | Rejected | Defeated by voice vote |
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Jackson-Lee (TX)
| Would exempt from the physician-owned hospital provision (section 623) any hospitals that are (1) under development on the date of enactment and (2) owned in whole or part by a unit of government or is a full service hospital. | Submitted | |
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Shadegg (AZ)
| Would prohibit CHIP or Medicaid coverage to an individual with gross family income above 200 percent of the poverty line unless the state provides the individual with premium assistance through a group health plan. | Submitted | |
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Barton (TX)
| Strikes section 623 of the bill (regarding physician referrals to hospitals). | Rejected | Defeated by voice vote |
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Scalise (LA)
| Restores the current verification process that is already in place for both identity and citizenship.
| Rejected | Defeated by voice vote |
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Kissell (NC)
| Would phase in cigarette tax increases over 4 years. | Rejected | Defeated by voice vote |