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Title
American Future Healthcare Act of 2017
Official Title
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand health savings accounts, and for other purposes.
Summary
American Future Healthcare Act of 2017
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to health savings accounts (HSAs), to:
repeal the requirement that an individual making a tax deductible contribution to an HSA be covered by a high deductible health care plan; increase the maximum HSA contribution level; allow Medicare eligible individuals to contribute to an HSA; allow HSAs to be used to purchase health insurance; provide a cost-of-living adjustment for the limits on additional contributions for individuals 55 or older (catch-up contributions); require the cost-of-living adjustments to be indexed to the CPI medical care component (the medical care component for the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers published by the Department of Labor); and allow a rollover of HSA amounts to a Medicare Advantage Medical Savings Account (MSA).
bill Progress
- Not enactedThe President has not signed this bill
- The senate has not voted
- The house has not voted
- house Committees
Committee on Ways and MeansIntroducedJanuary 10th, 2017