To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to permit insurers to offer catastrophic coverage plans to anyone, and for other purposes.

Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to consider catastrophic health plans to be providing essential health benefits by removing certain enrollment eligibility restrictions (concerning age, certification of exemption from the Internal Revenue Code requirement to maintain minimum essential coverage, and offering of the plan only in the individual market).

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3598 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3598

   To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to permit 
insurers to offer catastrophic coverage plans to anyone, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 21, 2013

 Mr. Fortenberry introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                  the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to permit 
insurers to offer catastrophic coverage plans to anyone, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. PERMITTING INSURERS TO OFFER CATASTROPHIC COVERAGE PLANS TO 
              ANYONE.

    (a) In General.--Section 1302(e) of the Patient Protection and 
Affordable Care Act (42 U.S.C. 18022(e)) is amended to read as follows:
    ``(e) Catastrophic Plan.--A health plan not providing a bronze, 
silver, gold, or platinum level of coverage shall be treated as meeting 
the requirements of subsection (d) with respect to any plan year if the 
plan provides--
            ``(1) except as provided in paragraph (2), the essential 
        health benefits determined under subsection (b), except that 
        the plan provides no benefits for any plan year until the 
        individual has incurred cost-sharing expenses in an amount 
        equal to the annual limitation in effect under subsection 
        (c)(1) for the plan year (except as provided for in section 
        2713); and
            ``(2) coverage for at least three primary care visits.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 1312(d)(3)(C) of the Patient 
Protection and Affordable Care Act (42 U.S.C. 18032(d)(3)(C)) is 
amended by striking ``, except that'' and all that follows through 
``section 1302(e)''.
    (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall be 
effective as if included in the enactment of the Patient Protection and 
Affordable Care Act.
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