| Associated Builders and Contractors |
| H.R. 3590 Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act. |
The Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act and the manager’s amendment included in this bill would be highly detrimental to the construction industry. The manager’s amendment in this bill singles out the construction industry by altering the small business exemption so that is applies only to those firms with 5 employees or less an extraordinary difference from the 50 employee threshold that every other American small business will enjoy. This legislation seeks to impose health care coverage mandates that would directly result in premium increases making insurance more expensive for employers and employees. It would also, impose $28 billion in new taxes on employers that do not provide government approved health plans. These new taxes would be paid by American workers in the form of reduced wages and job loss.
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| Friends Committee on National Legislation |
| Health Insurance Reform. |
This historic bill will significantly improve the lives of millions of people in the United States. * No one can be excluded or charged a higher premium due to a pre-existing condition, genetic code, or high usage of health services. * No one can be ejected from a plan for using its services. * Women cannot be charged higher premiums than men. * Medicaid expands substantially to cover many more low income individuals and families. * Low to moderate income families can qualify for tax credits to help with premium costs.
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| National Taxpayers Union |
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| Family Research Council |
| Final Vote on Health Care Bill and Abortion Funding. |
The House voted on the Senate health care bill, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590), that contained provisions creating several new health care programs that by-pass the Hyde amendment restrictions on directly funding elective abortion and provided federal tax credits for health plans that cover elective abortion. The abortion funding restrictions (Stupak-Pitts amendment) and conscience protections (Stupak amendment) originally passed in the House were replaced with provisions to fund health plans that cover abortion, require individuals to pay an abortion surcharge, and allow direct funding for abortion in multiple new health care plans. The bill also contained a provision undermining conscience protections, and included provisions that could be used to ration health care services. The bill eventually became law (P.L. 111-148).
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| NAACP |
| Health Care Reform. |
Final passage of a bill to provide health insurance to more than 32 million Americans, and to provide protections to those with health insurance. Specifically, among other things, the bill takes an aggressive approach to address the health care disparities that continue to plague so many racial and ethnic minority communities; outlaws discrimination against Americans with pre-existing conditions; create more that 300,000 new jobs by reducing the growth of health care costs and therefore allowing businesses to invest in jobs and growth rather than non-wage compensation; provide our seniors with the freedom to get the care they need, including free preventative care, lower prescription drug costs and Medicare that they can count on; not allow insurance companies to deny coverage to a person because he or she has gotten sick; and expand dependant care so that older children can be covered by their parents' policies. The Affordable Care Act passed.
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| AFL-CIO |
| Health Care Reform (H.R. 3590). |
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act expands coverage to more than 30 million Americans, puts new rules on insurance companies, benefits seniors with improved and strengthened Medicare and provides subsidies to help middle- and low-income families and small business to purchase coverage through market exchanges. It also imposed a new tax on working families’ benefits. The House took up this Senate-passed bill along with a corrections bill, H.R. 4872, which amends the most egregious provisions in the Senate-passed bill. The House passed the bill.
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| Americans for Democratic Action |
| H.R. 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. |
Passage of the Senate health care reform bill as written. It facilitates coverage for 30 million uninsured Americans, curbs the worst insurance
company abuses, and expands Medicare drug coverage, among other provisions.
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| U.S. Chamber of Commerce |
| H.R. 3590 – Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. |
H.R. 3590 – Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010.
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| National Education Association |
| HEALTH CARE. |
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590) to provide millions of uninsured children and adults with access to health coverage and make other sweeping health care reforms to improve health care coverage. The legislation passed.
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| National Right to Life Committee |
| Obama health care bill: abortion and rationing. |
The House of Representatives approved a massive health care restructuring bill. The bill would require certain federal agencies to subsidize and administer health plans that cover abortion on demand, and opened the door to future direct federal funding of abortion in multiple federal programs. In addition, the bill contains multiple provisions that will result in the rationing of lifesaving medical treatment, including provisions that will impede people from spending their own resources for lifesaving medical care.
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| Christian Coalition |
| Passage of the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” (concur with the Senate bill). |
Passage of the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” (concur with the Senate bill).
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| National Federation of Independent Business |
| THE PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT. |
Sponsored by Rep. Charles Rangel (NY-15). The bill mandates that all individuals purchase health insurance by 2014, that all construction firms with five or more employees provide health
insurance, levies a new tax on small business insurance plans and imposes a massive new IRS Form 1099 compliance requirement on small businesses. The bill passed.
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| National Catholic Social Justice Lobby |
| Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. |
The House concurred in the Senate amendments to H.R. 3590, the healthcare reform bill passed by the Senate.
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| Citizens Against Government Waste |
| HR 3590: Health Care Overhaul - Motion to Concur. |
Spratt D-S.C. motion to concur in the Senate amendment to the bill that would overhaul the nation's health insurance system and require most individuals to buy health insurance by 2014. It would create a system of national private insurance plans supervised by the Office of Personnel Management and create state-run marketplaces for purchasing health insurance. Those who do not obtain coverage would be subject to an excise tax. Excluded from the mandate would be those exempt from filing income tax and others with a hardship waiver religious objection or those who cannot afford coverage. Employers with more than 50 workers would have to provide coverage or pay a fine if any employee gets a subsidized plan on the exchange. Certain small businesses would get tax credits for providing coverage and those with low incomes excluding illegal immigrants could get subsidies. It would bar the use of federal funds to pay for abortions in the new programs except in the cases of rape or incest or if the woman's life is in danger. Insurance companies could not deny coverage based on pre-existing medical conditions beginning in 2014 and could not drop coverage of people who become ill. It would expand eligibility for Medicaid shrink the coverage gap under the Medicare Part D prescription drug program and create an advisory board to reduce the per capita growth rate in Medicare spending.
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| Gunowners Of America |
| Anti-gun ObamaCare Health Bill (Final Passage). |
Representatives passed anti-gun health care legislation that was identical to what the Senate had passed last year. HR 3590 will allow the BATFE and FBI to troll through the ObamaCare database for gun owners who would be disqualified because of their medical information. This could result in millions of Americans -- who are suffering from PTSD and other similar conditions -- being put into the NICS system and being denied the right to buy firearms. The House passed the socialized health care bill.
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| International Union, UAW |
| House Passes Historic Health Care Reform Bill. |
The House took up a sweeping health care reform bill that had previously been passed by the Senate. This historic bill will: extend health insurance coverage to 32 million Americans; ensure that coverage will be affordable by providing substantial tax credits for middle-income families and by expanding Medicaid to cover more low-income families; provide assistance to Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Associations (VEBAs) and employers to encourage them to continue coverage for pre-Medicare retirees; implement insurance market reforms to outlaw discriminatory practices by insurance carriers; and reduce costs for individuals and businesses by eliminating most uncompensated care, reforming the delivery and provider payment systems, and by creating exchanges to facilitate coverage in a cost-effective manner. House Democrats finally passed these long-sought reforms.
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| Children's Defense Fund Action Council |
| Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. |
HR 3590. This landmark health care reform legislation guarantees access to health coverage for 32 million people in America, including more than 95 percent of all children. With the passage of this bill and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, Congress and the president took a major step toward ensuring comprehensive and affordable health coverage for all children and families in America.
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| Service Employees International Union |
| Health care reform: House vote to pass bill ensuring quality health care for all Americans. |
The Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act (HR 4872) takes historic steps to ensure that everyone has access to quality, affordable healthcare. Because of Senate rules, in order to get the necessary votes to pass quality, affordable healthcare reform, Congress had to divide healthcare reform into two bills: one underlying bill to improve the quality of our healthcare and health insurance systems and one to make sure that reform was affordable for working families. This is the House vote on the bill which addresses quality. The House needed to pass this underlying bill before it moved onto the bill on affordability (referred to as the Healthcare and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010). This was a big vote because it would be the first time the House took up a Senate-passed healthcare bill. The bill passed.
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| The John Birch Society |
| ObamaCare. |
This historic bill (H.R. 3590), officially titled the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care
Act,” went on to be signed into law by President Obama. Popularly known as “ObamaCare,” this bill essentially completed the government takeover of the American healthcare system that was begun with Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. The ObamaCare law creates 159 new government agencies, which will inevitably drive private healthcare insurers
out of the market, just as its pilot program,
RomneyCare, is already beginning to do in Massachusetts. Although its official cost estimate was $1 trillion for the first 10 years, ObamaCare will soon join Medicare and Medicaid in the list of unfunded healthcare liabilities of the federal government, which together add up to tens of trillions of dollars.
The House agreed to a motion to concur
with the Senate version of H.R. 3590.
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| The National Association of Social Workers |
| Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. |
The House concurred in the Senate amendments to H.R. 3590, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the first-time homebuyers credit in the case of members of the Armed Forces and certain other Federal employees, and for other purposes.
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| Eagle Forum |
| On final passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009 (H.R. 3590) to provide for the government take over of the U.S. health care industry. |
The House concurred in the Senate amendments to H.R. 3590, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the first-time homebuyers credit in the case of members of the Armed Forces and certain other Federal employees, and for other purposes.
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| Alliance for Retired Americans |
| Health Care Reform I. |
The House passed health care reform legislation, which contained several pro-retiree provisions. Included among them were the elimination of co-pays and deductibles for preventive care screens and an annual wellness checkup beginning in 2011. The bill also included the closing of the Part D doughnut hole coverage gap, the phasing out of overpayments to Medicare Advantage insurance companies, and incentives for employers to maintain early retiree health care coverage. The bill passed.
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| The Club for Growth |
| Pass ObamaCare. |
Pass ObamaCare.
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| The National Association of Manufacturers |
| H.R.3590, On motion to concur in Senate amendments. |
The Senate-passed health care bill that was eventually signed into law (P.L. 111-148). This group opposed provisions in the bill that will drive up manufacturers' health care costs (excise taxes on health plans, Flexible Spending Account limits, repeal of the income exclusion for prescription drug subsidies, new industry-specific fees to pay for health care, etc.).
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