America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009

Parts of this article (those related to or superseded by the current consideration of the Affordable Health Care for America Act, H.R. 3962) need to be updated. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (February 2010)

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The proposed America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 (H.R. 3200) was an unsuccessful bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on July 14, 2009. The bill was introduced during the first session of the 111th Congress as part of an effort of the Democratic Party leadership to enact health care reform. The bill was not approved by the House, but was superseded by a similar bill, the proposed Affordable Health Care for America Act (HR 3962), which was passed by the House in November 2009, by a margin of 220-215 votes but later abandoned.

A similar bill to HR 3200, called the "Affordable Health Choices Act" (HR 1679),^[1] was introduced in the Senate on September 17, 2009. It too was unsuccessful as the Senate approved instead another proposal called the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act".

According to the Congressional Budget Office, HR 3200 included tax increases and spending cuts that reduce the net increase in the federal deficit to 1% of 2008 tax revenues. The CBO director subsequently noted that, in terms of total National Health Expenditure, non-governmental spending will increase as coverage expands.^[2][3]

The bill was originally sponsored by Representatives John Dingell, Charles Rangel, Henry Waxman, George Miller, Pete Stark, Frank Pallone, and Robert Andrews. The 1017 page PDF version of the bill^[4] is the first of three health care reform-related legislative proposals expected from the Democratic congressional leadership.^[5] Votes in the U.S. House of Representatives on this bill and on the Medicare for All Act, an alternative that would establish a national, universal single-payer health insurance, were previously expected in September 2009^[6] and again in October 2009, before the actual November 2009 vote took place.