Sec. 1. Short title; purposes; table of contents
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This Act may be cited as the . Health Care Equality and Modernization Act of 2022 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 Employer Mandate Sec. 101. Repeal of employer health insurance mandate. Sec. 102. 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—Health Insurance Tax Benefit Sec. 131. 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. Sec. 134. Repeal of reporting requirements relating to employee health insurance premiums and health plan benefits.
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 concierge medicine. 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. Publishing of cash price for care paid through health savings accounts. Sec. 502. Liberating the local practice of health care.