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Beginning Jan. 1, 2022, a new law will take effect that ends surprise medical bills for insured people receiving emergency medical care and other health services in the United States.
American Hospital Association v. Becerra, No. 20-1114, 596 U.S. ___ (2022) The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, [1] also called the Medicare Modernization Act or MMA, is a federal law of the United States, enacted in 2003. [2] It produced the largest overhaul of Medicare in the public health program's 38-year history.
The Build Back Better Act, which passed the House on September 27, 2021, was used by the Senate as the legislative vehicle for this legislation. On August 6, 2022 Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer proposed an amendment which would replace the text of the previously passed bill with the text of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. This ...
The Medicare for All Act (abbreviated M4A ), also known as the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act or United States National Health Care Act, is a bill first introduced in the United States House of Representatives by Representative John Conyers (D-MI) in 2003, with 38 co-sponsors. [1] [2] In 2019, the original 16-year-old proposal was ...
As of April 2022, two states have passed bills banning gender-affirming care – health care related to a transgender person’s medical transition – for transgender youth, and 20 states are ...
Surprise medical bills are nothing new in the U.S., and they've become so commonplace in the 13 years since the landmark Affordable Care Act (ACA) became law that Congress recently passed ...
The bill, which includes provisions on tax, health care, and climate and energy spending, was introduced in the Senate as an amendment to the Build Back Better Act. On August 7, the Senate passed the bill on a 50–50 vote with Vice President Harris breaking the tie. On August 12, 2022, the House passed the bill on a 220–207 vote.
The House of Representatives passed the bill by 256–174 on March 3, 2022, and passed the Senate by 84–14 on June 16, 2022. [4] [5] [6] Due to a previously unnoticed technical constitutional issue with the bill, a revised version needed to pass the Senate again, but failed a cloture vote 55–42 on July 27, 2022, after 25 Republicans flipped ...