Sec. 1. Short title; purposes; table of contents
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This Act may be cited as the . World’s Greatest Healthcare Plan Act of 2016 The purposes of this Act are as follows: To eliminate mandates on individuals and employers, and other tax requirements, imposed under Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. To provide greater flexibility in providing States with options in making affordable health insurance coverage available by eliminating certain mandates under PPACA, while retaining essential consumer protections, by promoting health savings accounts to pay for such coverage and long-term care coverage, while permitting States to continue coverage as provided under PPACA.
The table of contents of this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; purposes; table of contents. Sec. 2. Definitions. TITLE I—Revisions of PPACA Subtitle A—Elimination of Individual and Employer Mandates Sec. 101. Repeal of individual health insurance mandate. Sec. 102. Repeal of employer health insurance mandate. Sec. 103. Clarifying employer’s ability to reimburse employee premiums for purchase of individual health insurance coverage. Subtitle B—Limitation on Application of PPACA Plan Requirements Sec. 121.
Limiting application of requirements to consumer protections. Sec. 122. Offering of basic health insurance; protection of assets from liability or attachment or seizure. Subtitle C—Universal Health Insurance Tax Benefit Sec. 131. Universal health insurance tax benefit. Sec. 132. Application of portion of unused tax credits by States for indigent health care. Sec. 133. Medicaid option of enrollment under private plan and contribution to an HSA. TITLE II—Improving Health Savings Accounts to Promote Accountability Sec. 201.
Transition to non-deductible HSAs. Sec. 202. Elimination of medical expense deduction. Sec. 203. Treatment of HSA after death of account beneficiary. Sec. 204. Treatment of direct primary care. TITLE III—State flexibility in regulation of health insurance coverage Sec. 301. State flexibility in regulation of health insurance coverage. TITLE IV—Medicaid Payment Reform Sec. 401. Medicaid payment reform. TITLE V—Increasing Price Transparency and Freedom of Practice Sec. 501. Ensuring access to emergency services without excessive charges for out-of-network services.
Sec. 502. Publishing of cash price for care paid through health savings accounts. Sec. 503. Liberating the local practice of health care.