Individual Mandate - Minimum Essential Coverage
Today we will continue to address the requirement that individuals maintain health insurance, specifically the meaning of the term “minimum essential coverage.”
For purposes of the requirement that “applicable individuals” will have to maintain “minimum essential coverage” after 2013, the term “minimum essential coverage” will mean coverage under any of the following:
Medicare program under Part A of Title XVIII of the Social Security Act
Medicaid program under Title XIX of the Social Security Act
CHIP (Children's Health Insurance Program) program under Title XXI of the Social Security Act
TRICARE for Life program (TRICARE is the health care program serving active duty service members, National Guard and Reserve members, retirees, their families, survivors and certain former spouses; TRICARE for Life is TRICARE's Medicare-wraparound coverage available to all Medicare-eligible TRICARE beneficiaries)
Veteran's health care program under Chapter 17 of Title 38 of the United States Code
Health plan under Section 2504(e) of Title 22 of the United States Code (relating to Peace Corps volunteers)
Coverage under an eligible employer-sponsored plan
Coverage under a health plan offered in the individual market within a state
Coverage under a grandfathered health plan
Any other health benefits coverage, such as a state health benefits risk pool, which the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in coordination with IRS, recognizes for purposes of the definition of “minimum essential coverage”
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