S 3386
Blocked in the Senate
Deposits $1,000 to $1,500 a year into health savings accounts for eligible enrollees in bronze or catastrophic marketplace plans, and limits federal funding for gender transition procedures, most abortion coverage, and Medicaid payments for some people without verified citizenship.
Official title: Health Care Freedom for Patients Act of 2025
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Senate
Introduced
08-DEC-2025
On the calendar
08-DEC-2025
Blocked
11-DEC-2025
- Pays eligible enrollees one-twelfth of $1,000 each month if they are 18 to 49, or $1,500 if they are 50 to 64, while they hold a bronze or catastrophic marketplace plan in 2026 or 2027.
- Limits eligibility to enrollees with household income up to 700 percent of the poverty line, and bars HSA funds from paying for most abortions.
- Bars marketplace essential health benefits from covering gender transition procedures starting with plan years beginning January 1, 2027, and bars federal Medicaid and CHIP funds for those procedures.
- Appropriates funds for cost-sharing reduction payments for plan years beginning on or after January 1, 2027, but not for plans that cover most abortions, and lets catastrophic plans be sold to all individual-market buyers.
Current. The Congressional Research Service's summary covers the bill's latest wording (Introduced in Senate, 08-DEC-2025).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.govNo committee referrals on file.
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