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Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962)

America’s Affordable Health Choices Act

Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Act of 2009

Affordable Health Choices Act

 

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Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962)
Sponsor: Representative John Dingell (D-MI)

The Affordable Health Care for America Act expands coverage to the uninsured and includes a public health insurance option. The legislation also establishes a Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research, which would be established with AHRQ to conduct, support, and synthesize comparative effectiveness related research.

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  • Status: Passed the House of Representatives, November 7, 2009. Placed on Senate legislative calendar.

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America's Affordable Health Choices Act
Sponsors: House Tri-Committee: Education and Labor Committee; Ways & Means Committee; Energy & Commerce Committee

This legislation would establish a Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research within AHRQ to conduct, support, and synthesize research with respect to the outcomes, effectiveness, and appropriateness of health care services and procedures in order to identify the manner in which diseases, disorders, and other health conditions can most effectively and appropriately be prevented, treated, and managed clinically.

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  • Status: Education and Labor Committee passed the bill on July 17, 2009; Ways & Means Committee passed the bill on July 17, 2009; the Energy & Commerce Committee is currently marking up the bill.

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Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Act of 2009
Sponsors: Senators Max Baucus (D-MT) and Kent Conrad (D-ND)

This bill would establish a private, non-profit institution, called the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, to generate scientific evidence and data on how to achieve the best clinical outcomes for patients.

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Affordable Health Choices Act
Sponsors:  Senator Edward Kennedy (MA)

This legislation would establish a Center for Health Outcomes Research and Evaluation within AHRQ to collect, conduct, support, and synthesize research comparing health outcomes, effectiveness, and appropriateness of health care services and procedures.  

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