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Health Care Choice Act of 2017

This bill repeals the health insurance and health coverage expansion requirements of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and related provisions of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. Provisions of law amended or repealed by those provisions are restored.

This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to provide that the laws of a state designated by a health insurer (primary state) apply to individual health insurance coverage offered by that insurer in any state (secondary state) if the coverage, states, and insurer comply with the conditions of this bill. Insurers are exempted from any secondary state's laws that would prohibit or regulate the operation of the insurer in that state. The primary state is given sole jurisdiction to enforce its covered laws in any secondary state.

The Government Accountability Office must study the effect of this bill on specified health insurance issues.

Action Timeline

Action DateTypeTextSource
2017-10-26IntroReferralRead twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.Senate
2017-10-26IntroReferralIntroduced in SenateLibrary of Congress

Sponsor :

Ted Cruz [R] (TX)
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Policy Area :

Health
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  • Accounting and auditing
  • Comprehensive health care
  • Congressional oversight
  • Government information and archives
  • Health care costs and insurance
  • Health care coverage and access
  • Insurance industry and regulation
  • Intergovernmental relations
  • State and local government operations

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