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		<ns:title>H.R. 1558: Preexisting Condition Patient Protection Act of 2009</ns:title>
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		<ns:subject>Health</ns:subject>
		<ns:subject>Health care costs and insurance</ns:subject>
		<ns:subject>Health care coverage and access</ns:subject>
		<ns:subject>Disability and health-based discrimination</ns:subject>
		<ns:subject>Employee benefits and pensions</ns:subject>
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		<usbill:title>H.R. 1558: To amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prohibit preexisting condition exclusions in group health plans and health insurance coverage in the group and individual markets.</usbill:title>
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				<ns:description>Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Education and Labor, 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.</ns:description>
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				<ns:description>Referred to House Energy and Commerce</ns:description>
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				<ns:description>Referred to House Ways and Means</ns:description>
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				<ns:description>Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.</ns:description>
				<time:at rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#date">2009-05-14</time:at>
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				<rdf:value>To amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prohibit preexisting condition exclusions in group health plans and health insurance coverage in the group and individual markets.</rdf:value>
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