H.R. 5682 — Health Insurance Fairness Act

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Health Insurance Fairness Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to prohibit health insurance issuers that provide individual coverage or coverage through an association from: (1) reclassifying an individual from the class such individual was in at the time of the issuance of the contract for a health related factor; or (2) increasing the premiums assessed an individual for coverage for a health related reason.

Declares that nothing in this Act shall be construed to prohibit a health insurance issuer from terminating or discontinuing coverage or a class of coverage in line with specified provisions of the Act, or from raising premium rates for all policy holders based on clams experience.

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S. 3119Health Insurance Fairness Act
2002-10-16Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
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2002-10-16
Introduced in House
2002-10-16
Introduced in House
2002-10-16
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
2002-10-17
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1917)
2002-10-28
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

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