President's proposed changes.
It includes a targeted set of changes to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the Senate-passed health insurance reform bill. The President’s Proposal reflects policies from the House-passed bill and the President’s priorities. Key changes include:
•Eliminating the Nebraska FMAP provision and providing significant additional Federal financing to all States for the expansion of Medicaid;
•Closing the Medicare prescription drug “donut hole” coverage gap;
•Strengthening the Senate bill’s provisions that make insurance affordable for individuals and families;
•Strengthening the provisions to fight fraud, waste, and abuse in Medicare and Medicaid;
•Increasing the threshold for the excise tax on the most expensive health plans from $23,000 for a family plan to $27,500 and starting it in 2018 for all plans;
•Improving insurance protections for consumers and creating a new Health Insurance Rate Authority to provide Federal assistance and oversight to States in conducting reviews of unreasonable rate increases and other unfair practices of insurance plans.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/health-care-meeting/proposal/whatsnew/overview
