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HJ 158 Health care coverage; JLARC to study extension thereof to those currently uninsured.

Introduced by: John M. O'Bannon, III | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)

Study; Health care coverage for Virginians; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study options for extending health insurance coverage to Virginians who are currently uninsured. In conducting the study, the Commission shall (i) analyze the number of uninsured Virginians, the reasons they do not have health insurance, the duration of periods without insurance, and their eligibility for employer-based and private health insurance coverage or government health care programs; (ii) assess the costs incurred by the Commonwealth, its insured citizens, and health care providers for the provision of emergency room or other health care to treat the uninsured population in Virginia; (iii) evaluate programs or plans implemented in other states as well as proposals that have been made by national organizations to expand health insurance coverage to the uninsured; and (iv) develop policy options to extend health insurance coverage to Virginia's uninsured that balance facilitating access to health insurance with requiring Virginians to assume greater personal responsibility for obtaining a minimum level of health insurance coverage.


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