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Code · BILL · 114th Congress · S. 2985 (Introduced in Senate) — To eliminate the individual and employer health coverage mandates under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Ac... · Sec. 122

Sec. 122. Offering of basic health insurance; protection of assets from liability or attachment or seizure

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No tax credit shall be allowable under section 36B or 36C of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 for residents of a State unless any Exchange established in the State provides for the offering of basic health insurance in all areas of the State. In this subsection, the term basic health insurance means, with respect to a State, such health insurance coverage as the State may specify and includes limited benefit insurance (as defined in subsection (b)). In this section, the term limited benefit insurance means individual health insurance coverage that, with respect to a plan year, imposes (consistent with paragraph (2)) an annual limit on the amounts that may be payable under the coverage with respect to expenses incurred for items and services furnished in that plan year.
The Secretary shall specify, from year to year, the annual limit (or range of annual limits) that may be applied under paragraph (1). Such a limit may distinguish between coverage that is only provided for an individual and coverage that is provided also for family members of the individual. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if an individual is covered under limited benefit insurance for a plan year and benefits under such insurance have reached the annual limit under such insurance for items and services furnished in the plan year, the individual is not liable for debt incurred and arising from the provision of subsequently furnished items and services during the plan year, regardless of whether benefits are otherwise covered for such items and services under such policy, insofar as the liability attributable to such items and services exceeds— the bankruptcy valuation of the individual’s property at the time the debt is incurred; reduced by such annual limit of benefits under the limited benefit insurance for the plan year.
Property in the amount so protected from liability shall be exempt and immune from attachment or seizure with respect to any judgment related to such debt. In this subsection, the term bankruptcy valuation means, with respect to property of an individual as of a date, the value of the property as of such date as determined as if the individual were a debtor in a bankruptcy case that could have been filed under title 11 of the United States Code and the property could not be exempt under section 522 of such title.
Except as may be explicitly provided in other law (such as under section 1867 of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1395dd ), popularly known as EMTALA), a health care provider is not required to furnish any items or services to an individual who has exhausted benefits under limited benefit insurance for a plan year without the individual (or another person on the individual’s behalf) providing for such advance or guarantee of payment for such items and services as may be arranged between the health care provider and the individual.
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