Full Text of HR0433 94th General Assembly
HR0433 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, There are nearly 30,000 Illinoisans living with | 3 |
| HIV/AIDS and most struggle to obtain adequate basic health | 4 |
| care, stable housing, and food; and
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| WHEREAS, The federal Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS | 6 |
| Resources Emergency (CARE) Act has been critical to meeting | 7 |
| these needs in Illinois; and | 8 |
| WHEREAS, The State, city of Chicago, and private providers | 9 |
| currently receive more than $35,000,000 annually to provide | 10 |
| counseling services, primary health care, dental care, mental | 11 |
| health services, substance abuse services, drug reimbursement, | 12 |
| legal services, nutrition counseling, and food; and | 13 |
| WHEREAS, Congress created the Ryan White CARE Act in 1990 | 14 |
| and it must be reauthorized every 5 years, this year Congress | 15 |
| must reauthorize the Ryan White CARE Act by September 30, 2005; | 16 |
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| WHEREAS, Some in Congress would refocus the Ryan White CARE | 18 |
| Act to allow only medically related services, eliminating | 19 |
| services such as legal assistance, housing support, and food; | 20 |
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| WHEREAS, Without legal assistance, housing support, | 22 |
| nutrition counseling, and food, Illinoisans living with | 23 |
| HIV/AIDS will be unable to adhere to their complex medical | 24 |
| regimens, unable to sustain their health, and die; and | 25 |
| WHEREAS, The sick will be forced into hospitals for complex | 26 |
| and expensive health care paid for by U.S. Medicaid and the | 27 |
| State, and the State will pay for more intensive and expensive | 28 |
| health interventions than the Ryan White CARE Act provides; and |
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| WHEREAS, Private and non-profit organizations throughout | 2 |
| the State have created effective and efficient services to help | 3 |
| people living with HIV/AIDS obtain health care, secure stable | 4 |
| housing, address mental health and substance abuse, and support | 5 |
| medical regimens through quality and nutritious food; and | 6 |
| WHEREAS, The organizations' efforts, funded primarily | 7 |
| through the Ryan White CARE Act, will be jeopardized; | 8 |
| therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 10 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 11 |
| we urge the Congress of the United States of America to | 12 |
| reauthorize the Ryan White CARE Act this year in its current | 13 |
| format, with its current language, and with its current funding | 14 |
| under local control for supportive services such as legal | 15 |
| assistance, housing support, and food; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | 17 |
| delivered to the President pro tempore of the U.S. Senate, the | 18 |
| Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Secretary of | 19 |
| the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Governor Rod | 20 |
| Blagojevich, and each member of the Illinois congressional | 21 |
| delegation.
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