Bill > S423

This bill, the Easy Enrollment in Health Care Act, aims to streamline enrollment in health insurance affordability programs and minimum essential coverage. The key provisions include: 1. Allowing taxpayers who are not covered under minimum essential coverage to elect, when filing their tax return, to have a determination made on their household members' eligibility for insurance affordability programs and to enroll them in a zero-net-premium plan if eligible. 2. Enabling Exchanges to use relevant tax return information and other reliable data sources to minimize additional information required from taxpayers and facilitate enrollment in insurance affordability programs. 3. Modernizing Medicaid and CHIP eligibility criteria to use recent annual income and findings from other benefit programs like SNAP and TANF to determine eligibility. 4. Improving the stability and predictability of Exchange coverage by aligning the applicable taxable year used for premium tax credits with the plan year. 5. Providing Exchanges access to data sources like the National Directory of New Hires to better determine eligibility for insurance affordability programs. The bill also establishes an advisory committee, requires a study on potential improvements, and appropriates funds to implement the provisions.

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https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/423/all-info