Senator Warner’s Progress:

• Senator Warner introduced targeted improvements to the Affordable Care Act to provide Virginia families with additional health coverage choices to best meet their financial and medical needs.

• The Expanded Consumer Choice Act would create a new coverage option called the Copper Plan, which would provide a lower-cost, higher-deductible option for consumers, while also including essential health benefits and consumer protections.

• Senator Warner has also proposed legislation to direct state insurance commissioners to work together to allow insurers to offer coverage across state boundaries, increasing competition and choice for both consumers and employers.

• Senator Warner knows that the reporting requirements have created an unnecessary burden for Virginia small businesses. He has a proposal to ease reporting requirements to make it easier for employers to report the hours worked by their employees.

• Senator Warner has introduced a  series of bipartisan bills to improve access and quality of medical care for some of our country’s most vulnerable patients.

• Senator Warner introduced legislation designed to give people with serious illness the freedom to make more informed choices about their care, and the power to have those choices honored.  The Care Planning Act of 2015 would create a Medicare benefit for patient-centered care planning for people with serious illness.

• Senator Warner introduced the Medicare Home Infusion Site of Care Act of 2015, to allow beneficiaries who need intravenous medications to receive their infusion treatments in the comfort and convenience of their homes and at a lower cost to Medicare.

• The Senate Finance Committee voted to approve two of Senator Warner’s bipartisan health care bills aimed at improving the quality of care for seniors on Medicare.