HB401 Alabama 2011 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Steve Clouse Representative

Republican

Co-Sponsors

Greg WrenApril WeaverBill Poole

Session

Regular Session 2011

Title

Health Department, Health Insurance Exchange established within, operated by a board, members, duties, repealed if federal health reform laws requiring exchange repealed or ruled unconstitutional, Health Insurance Exchange Act

Description

Under existing federal law, the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, requires each state to establish a health insurance exchange to provide a centralized location where persons may obtain comparative information on available health insurance plans and facilitate the purchase and sale of such health insurance plans.

This bill would create the Alabama Health Insurance Exchange within the Department of Public Health. This bill would provide that the exchange would operate as an independent instrumentality of the state and would be recognized as a not-for-profit corporation for tax purposes. This bill would provide that the exchange would be governed by a board and would provide for the membership terms and duties of the board.

This bill would require the exchange to make qualified health plans available to qualified individuals and qualified employers. This bill would authorize the exchange to charge fees to health insurance carriers in order to fund the exchange.

This bill would authorize the department to promulgate rules necessary to implement and operate the exchange.

This bill would provide that if provisions of the federal health care reform act authorizing the exchange are repealed or declared unconstitutional, this act would be repealed.

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Subjects

Health Insurance