Health Marketplace and Savings Accounts for All Act
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill broadly expands health savings account tax preferences and uses, treats HSAs more like flexible savings vehicles, and allows qualifying health marketplace pools to be treated as employers offering group health coverage.
Who Benefits and How
Individuals with or seeking HSAs could contribute more, qualify without high-deductible-plan restrictions, use funds for more health and wellness expenses, pass balances more flexibly within families, protect accounts in bankruptcy, and potentially access pooled group coverage.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Federal revenues would likely fall, and employers, insurers, and pool sponsors would need to adjust payroll, plan, and compliance structures to the expanded HSA and pooling rules.
Key Provisions
- Raises HSA contribution limits and removes prior eligible-individual and high-deductible-plan restrictions for deductions.
- Expands qualified HSA uses to include more insurance, direct primary care, certain adult children, pre-establishment expenses, wellness items, and corrected contribution errors.
- Lets HSA balances transfer more flexibly to certain family members and shields HSA assets in bankruptcy like IRAs.
- Treats qualifying health marketplace pools as employers for group-coverage purposes and makes related ERISA conforming amendments.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill broadly expands health savings account tax preferences and uses, treats HSAs more like flexible savings vehicles, and allows qualifying health marketplace pools to be treated as employers offering group health coverage.
Key Policy Areas
Healthcare, Tax Policy, Government Administration
Primary Purpose
This bill broadly expands health savings account tax preferences and uses, treats HSAs more like flexible savings vehicles, and allows qualifying health marketplace pools to be treated as employers offering group health coverage.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Individuals, families, and pool sponsors benefiting from broader HSA and group-coverage flexibility
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Federal revenue collections and entities that must adapt payroll, plan, and marketplace operations to the expanded HSA and pooling rules
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Paul introduced the following bill; which was read twice …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Families inheriting HSA balances who can preserve more favorable tax treatment, HSA account holders in bankruptcy whose balances gain stronger protection from creditors, HSA contributors and older account holders who can make larger tax-favored contributions
Federal revenues reduced by allowing more HSA-funded medical and insurance expenses, Federal revenues reduced by the broader definition of qualified HSA expenses, Federal revenues reduced by the expanded HSA deduction eligibility
Health marketplace pool members and sponsors that avoid fiduciary exposure based solely on pool membership, Health marketplace pools and insurers able to sponsor pooled group health coverage under ERISA
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
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