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Budget Amendments - HB30 (Member Request)

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Task Force to Provide Health Insurance to Low-income Virginians (language only)

Item 284 #1h

Item 284 #1h

Health and Human Resources
Secretary of Health and Human Resources

Language

Page 232, at the beginning of line 8, insert "A."

Page 232, after line 32, insert:

"B.1. The Secretary of Health and Human Resources shall convene a taskforce comprised of appropriate stakeholders to make recommendations utilizing Sections 1132 and 1115 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA)  to redesign Virginia's private health insurance market and Virginia's Medicaid program to opt-out of the ACA and create a new, redesigned private market plan to provide health insurance to low-income Virginians.

2. The task force shall be charged with, but not limited  to, making recommendations to modify the private insurance market's federal essential covered benefits; federal subsidies; the federal health insurance marketplace in Virginia; ways to ease regulatory burdens on Virginia citizens, employers and health care providers; and the individual and employer mandate. In addition, the task force shall make comprehensive recommendations to redesign Virginia's Medicaid program including, but not limited to premium assistance, waived cost sharing, healthy behavior initiatives, work requirements, and other reforms.

3. The task force, in consultation with the  Secretary of Health and Human Resources, shall report to the General Assembly with recommendations for Virginia to opt-out of the ACA with its own plan no later than November 1, 2016."



Explanation

(This amendment adds language directing the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to convene a task force to make recommendations for Virginia to opt-out of the federal Affordable Care Act and create a new, redesigned plan to provide health insurance to low-income Virginians.)