Bill: HB0280 Insurance Premium Loss Data
Sponsor: Rep. Flowers (D-Chicago)
Status: Re-referred to Rules
Position: Oppose
Description: All insurers subject to the to-be created Premium and Loss Data Reporting Act shall report to the Director of the Division of Insurance accurate and complete information for each accident and health coverage type requested. Sets forth the specific types of accident and health coverage requested for reporting. Imposes conditions on any rulemaking authority.
Bill: HB0289 Health Insurance Rate Review
Sponsor: Rep. Flowers (D-Chicago)
Status: Failed in Committee
Position: Oppose
Description: Creates the Health Insurance Rate Review Act. Creates the independent quasi-judicial Health Insurance Rate Review Board to ensure insurance rates are reasonable and justified. Sets forth duties and prohibited activities concerning the Board. Creates the Health Insurance Rate Review Board Nomination Panel to provide a list of nominees to the Governor for appointment to the Health Insurance Rate Review Board. Sets forth the procedures for nomination. Provides requirements and procedures for health carriers to file current and proposed rates and rate schedules with the Health Insurance Rate Review Board. Provides that the Board shall review and approve or disapprove all rates and rate schedules filed or used by a health carrier. Sets forth provisions concerning rate standards, public notice, hearings, and the disapproval and approval of rates and rate schedules.
Bill: HB0311 Universal Health Care/Single-Payer
Sponsor: Rep. Flowers (D-Chicago)
Status: Re-referred to Rules
Position: Oppose
Description: Creates the Illinois Universal Health Care Act which all individuals residing in the state would be covered under the Illinois Health Services Program for health insurance.
Bill: HB2063 Insurance Guarantee
Sponsor: Rep. Flowers (D-Chicago)
Status: Re-referred to Rules
Position: Oppose
Description: No company, in any policy of accident or health insurance, shall make or permit any distinction or discrimination against individuals solely because of handicaps or disabilities in specified provisions of the contract it makes or permit any distinction or discrimination against individuals solely because of handicaps or disabilities in the specified provisions of the contract it makes (instead of including an exception for those who meet specified criteria). Provides that no company shall refuse to insure or refuse to continue to insure, limit the amount or extent or kind of coverage available to an individual, or charge an individual a different rate for the same coverage solely because of health status or disability (instead of only because of blindness or partial blindness).
Bill: HB2065 Insurance Assessments
Sponsor: Rep. Flowers (D-Chicago)
Status: Passed House, Senate 1st Reading
Position: Neutral with amendment
Description: Insurance must cover all services ordered by a physician and provided in a hospital.
Bill: HB2977 Medical Loss Ratio
Sponsor: Rep. Flowers (D-Chicago)
Status: Re-referred to Rules
Position: Oppose
Description: Companies that issue accident and health insurance policies must disclose to each policy holder whether and to what extent that company has complied during the previous year with the medical loss ratio provisions of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Provides that the disclosure shall be issued to each policy holder upon enrollment and annually thereafter and shall include information explaining the rights of the policy holder under the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Bill: HB3968 Insurance Premium Rates
Sponsor: Rep. M. Davis (D-Chicago)
Status: Re-referred to Rules
Position: Oppose
Description: A filing of premium rates with the Director of Insurance shall not be complete unless it contains all information necessary to justify the premium rate and such other information as the Director may require to determine the rate’s compliance with the provision concerning health insurance premium rates and prior approval. The filing shall clearly indicate the percentage change from certain prior rates.
Bill: HB4574 Healthcare Exchange
Sponsor: Rep. Osmond (R-Antioch)
Position: Support
Status: Re-referred to Rules
Description: Establishes the Illinois Health Benefits Exchange as an independent, non-profit entity formed and organized under the laws of the State. Provides that the Exchange shall be a public entity, but shall not be considered a department, institution, or agency of the State. Deletes references to the Illinois Health Benefits Exchange Legislative Study Committee and establishes instead the Illinois Health Benefits Exchange Legislative Oversight Committee within the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability. Provides that the governing and administrative powers of the Exchange shall be vested in a body known as the Illinois Health Benefits Exchange Board and sets forth provisions concerning appointments, terms, meetings, structure, recusal, budget, and purpose. Sets forth provisions concerning enrollment through brokers and agents and producer compensation. Provides that the Law shall be null and void if the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down the federal Affordable Care Act in whole or in part. This is a Chamber initiative.
Bill: HB5476 Healthcare Executive Orders
Sponsor: Rep. Osmond (R-Antioch)
Status: Re-referred to Rules
Position: Support
Description: Prohibits an Executive Order of the Governor from establishing or providing for the administration or operation of a State-based health benefit exchange in Illinois.
Bill: SB2892 Single-Payer Health Care Act
Sponsor: Sen. Noland (D-Elgin)
Status: Re-referred to Assignments committee
Position: Oppose
Description: Creates the Single-payer Health and Universal Care System Act in that the Departments of Insurance and Healthcare and Family Services shall examine the feasibility of creating and implementing a health care access plan that accomplishes certain goals.
Bill: SB2945 Smoke Free Privacy Exemption
Sponsor: Sen. Duffy (R-Barrington)
Status: Passed Senate, House 3rd Reading
Position: Support
Description: Amends the Smoke Free Illinois Act and the Right to Privacy in the Workplace Act to exempt from certain prohibitions against discrimination any employer that, as its primary purposes or objectives, provides medical or hospital treatment to patients who have a cancerous condition.
