Bill: HR 2563 To amend the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to protect consumers in managed care plans and other health coverage.
(Rep Ganske, Greg )
Vote Date: 8/2/2001 10:42:00 PM
Bipartisan Patient Protection Act - On Motion to Recommit with Instructions
Bill: HR 2563 To amend the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to protect consumers in managed care plans and other health coverage.
(Rep Ganske, Greg )
Vote Date: 8/2/2001 10:18:00 PM
Thomas of California Amendment - On Agreeing to the Amendment
Bill: HR 2563 To amend the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to protect consumers in managed care plans and other health coverage.
(Rep Ganske, Greg ) H.AMDT.304: An amendment numbered 3 printed in House Report 107-184 to reform the medical malpractice laws for health care providers to place time limits on lawsuits, cap damages, establish the collateral source rule, provide for several liability, and protect against lawsuits for products that meet FDA standards; and to grandfather existing laws and allow future state laws to supercede federal standards.
(Rep Thomas, William M. (Bill))
Vote Date: 8/2/2001 9:46:00 PM
Norwood of Georgia Amendment - On Agreeing to the Amendment
Bill: HR 2563 To amend the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to protect consumers in managed care plans and other health coverage.
(Rep Ganske, Greg ) H.AMDT.303: An amendment numbered 2 printed in House Report 107-184 to provide patient protections and the right to independent medical review for denials of medical care by the health plan; to guarantee patients new federal remedies to hold their health plans accountable when they have been injured by wrongful denial or delay of medical care; to allow cases against employers to be removed to federal court by the defendant; to allow cases against health insurers to be heard in state court; to allow employers to designate decision makers who will have sole liability for benefit determinations; to ensure that patients must exhaust the independent medical review process befor seeking expanded damages in court; to allow patients to seek injunctive relief at any time for irreparable harm; to allow unlimited economic damages in both federal and state court; to limit non-economic damages at $1.5 million and will be available only where the designated decision maker fails to comply with the independent me (Rep Norwood, Charlie)
Vote Date: 8/2/2001 8:23:00 PM
Thomas of California Amendment - On Agreeing to the Amendment
Bill: HR 2563 To amend the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to protect consumers in managed care plans and other health coverage.
(Rep Ganske, Greg ) H.AMDT.302: An amendment numbered 1 printed in House Report 107-184 to add Association Health Plans to the bill and strikes section 511 (Limitations on Number of Medical Savings Accounts(MSA's)), replacing it with fully expanded MSA's.
(Rep Thomas, William M. (Bill))
Vote Date: 8/2/2001 6:40:00 PM
Providing for consideration of H.R. 2563; Bipartisan Patient Protection Act - On Agreeing to the Resolution
Bill: HRES 219 Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2563) to to amend the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to protect consumers in managed care plans and other health coverage.
(Rep Goss, Porter J. )
Vote Date: 8/2/2001 2:33:00 PM
Providing for consideration of H.R. 2563; Bipartisan Patient Protection Act - On Ordering the Previous Question
Bill: HRES 219 Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2563) to to amend the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to protect consumers in managed care plans and other health coverage.
(Rep Goss, Porter J. )
Vote Date: 8/2/2001 2:24:00 PM
