Expanding Health Care Options for Early Retirees Act
- Last Action
- 6/24/2021
Actions
- 2021-06-24Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
- 2021-06-24Introduced in Senate
CRS Summary
As of 2021-06-24 (00)
Expanding Health Care Options for Early Retirees Act
This bill establishes a Medicare buy-in option for certain qualifying first responders.
Specifically, the bill allows first responders aged 50 to 64 to enroll in Medicare if they are retired or otherwise separated from service due to a disability. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) must determine enrollment periods and set premiums for the buy-in option established under the bill, in accordance with specified requirements. The CMS must also award grants to states and nonprofit organizations for outreach and enrollment activities relating to the buy-in option.
Cosponsors (1)
- Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)
Subjects
- Advisory bodies
- Disability and paralysis
- Fires
- First responders and emergency personnel
- Government trust funds
- Health care costs and insurance
- Health care coverage and access
- Health programs administration and funding
- Law enforcement officers
- Medicaid
- Medicare
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