The Health Care Choice Act is a bill that proposes allowing health insurance companies to sell health insurance across U.S. state lines.
On May 12, 2005, The Health Care Choice Act of 2005, was introduced as in the U.S. House of Representatives by Rep. John Shadegg (R-AZ) and as in the U.S. Senate by Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC).
H.R.2355 gained 71 Republican co-sponsors in the House (Rep. Ed Towns (D-NY) signed on as a co-sponsor a day before and withdrew as a co-sponsor two days after the hearing on the bill) and S.1015 gained 3 Republican co-sponsors in the Senate.
On June 28, 2005, a hearing on H.R 2335 was held by the House Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Energy and Commerce with five invited witnesses.
Three witnesses testified in favor of H.R.2355:
Two witnesses testified against H.R.2355:
On July 20, 2005, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce by a vote of 24 to 23 (24 Republicans in favor, 21 Democrats and 2 Republicans opposed) ordered H.R.2355 reported favorably out of committee, which it was on February 16, 2006, and subsequently died with no further action in the full House. S.1015 died in committee.
On December 12, 2007, The Health Care Choice Act of 2007, was introduced as in the U.S. House of Representatives by Rep. John Shadegg (R-AZ), and as of January 17, 2008, had 43 Republican co-sponsors. This plan was analyzed by Sven R Larson in a white paper for Center for Freedom and Prosperity. Larson finds considerable cost savings from interstate health-insurance market competition.
On July 14, 2009, The Health Care Choice Act of 2009, was introduced as in the U.S. House of Representatives by Rep. John Shadegg (R-AZ), and as of September 7, 2009, had 5 Republican co-sponsors.
| Congress | Short title | Bill number(s) | Date introduced | Sponsor(s) |
| Latest status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 108th Congress | Health Care Choice Act | June 23, 2004 | John Shadegg(R-AZ) | 40 | Died in committee | |
| 109th Congress | Health Care Choice Act of 2005 | May 12, 2005 | John Shadegg(R-AZ) | 71 | Died in committee | |
| May 12, 2005 | Jim DeMint(R-SC) | 3 | Died in committee | |||
| 110th Congress | Health Care Choice Act of 2007 | December 12, 2007 | John Shadegg(R-AZ) | 63 | Died in committee | |
| December 13, 2007 | Jim DeMint(R-SC) | 8 | Died in committee | |||
| 111th Congress | Health Care Choice Act of 2009 | July 14, 2009 | John Shadegg(R-AZ) | 28 | Died in committee | |
| July 16, 2009 | Jim DeMint(R-SC) | 1 | Died in committee | |||
| 112th Congress | Health Care Choice Act of 2011 | January 19, 2011 | Steve Pearce(R-NM) | 7 | Died in committee | |
| January 20, 2011 | Marsha Blackburn(R-TN) | 154 | Died in committee | |||
| 113th Congress | Health Care Choice Act of 2013 | February 15, 2013 | Marsha Blackburn(R-TN) | 23 | Died in committee | |
| 114th Congress | Health Care Choice Act of 2015 | January 27, 2015 | Marsha Blackburn(R-TN) | 18 | Died in committee | |
| March 3, 2015 | Ted Cruz(R-TX) | 5 | Died in committee | |||
| 115th Congress | Health Care Choice Act of 2017 | January 5, 2017 | Marsha Blackburn(R-TN) | 51 | Died in committee | |
| October 26, 2017 | Ted Cruz(R-TX) | 1 | Died in committee |