Close the Medigap Act of 2025 has not moved since its introduction on Jan 22, 2025, with cosponsors, all Democrats
IntroducedJan 22, 2025
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What it changes · CRS summary
Written by the Congressional Research Service [2]. 62 words.
Close the Medigap Act of 2025 This bill (1) expands guaranteed issue rights with respect to Medigap policies (Medicare supplemental health insurance policies), (2) eliminates certain limitations on Medigap policies for newly eligible Medicare beneficiaries, and (3) modifies other provisions related to Medigap policies. (Guaranteed issue rights require that a policy be offered to any eligible applicant without regard to health status.)
Context
- Committees
- House Energy and Commerce Committee
House Ways and Means Committee - Policy area
- Health: 122 of 9,357 bills became law, 113th–118th (1.3%)
- Sponsor
- 4 of 144 bills enacted since 2013
- Text versions
- 1: introduced in house · 2,182 words
- Subjects
- Government information and archivesHealth care costs and insuranceHealth care coverage and accessInsurance industry and regulationMedicaidMedicare
- Latest action
- Jan 22, 2025: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
- Records
- Congress.gov · Bill text
Exhibit 1Passage odds band at each stage, rated when the bill reached it [4]
Related bills · 0
The bill status record lists no related bills.
Exhibit 2Articles naming the bill per day, last 90 days, US sources [3]