Question

Research and select a current health policy legislation of interest: Type “Health Policy” under search engine (provide bill number and title). Example: S.330 – 113^th Congress (2013-2014) HIV Organ Policy Equity Act. Provide information on the stage of the bill and some background information and whether as a constituent, you agree or disagree with the health policy bill.

Answer 1

Ans) The 1895: Lower Health Care Costs Act, was reintroduced in the legislation, in June 06/19, with an aim of providing; protection to the patients from huge medical bills and also helping them in reducing payments in cases where there is a possibility of an arisal of surprise bill from some health care providers. Also the bill is extremely important, since it is allowing the entrance of several generic or biosimilar drugs in the market under the current law.

It is designing new set of rules for insurance contracts with pharmacy benefit managers and health care providers. It shall provide investments for community health centers and several other federal health care programs. Apart from the above information, Increasing access to health, cost, and quality information among patients, providers, and insurers, shall create a new administrative responsibility that may incur costs for insurers and pharmacy benefit managers.

Also, one cannot deny or disagree with the importance of this bill, since the legislation is also striving hard in Imposing a combination of a public and private sector mandates with an aim of prohibiting several irregular medical billing practices, and limiting many commercial activities, along with a prohibition on the sale of tobacco products to anyone under the age of 21.