Full Text of HR0253 99th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, Medicaid improves health, access to health | 3 | | services, and financial security; coverage lowers infant, | 4 | | child, and adult mortality rates and increases the use of
| 5 | | critical preventive services, such as prenatal care; coverage | 6 | | also virtually eliminates
catastrophic out-of-pocket medical | 7 | | expenditures, providing much-needed financial security and
| 8 | | peace of mind; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, Medicaid is a considerable economic boost to the | 10 | | Illinois economy; the State
stands to lose 9,280 jobs for every | 11 | | 5% reduction to the Medicaid program; and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, The expansion of Medicaid increased economic | 13 | | activity by $2.6 billion in
Illinois; and
| 14 | | WHEREAS, Illinois is in a unique transitional phase in its | 15 | | health care delivery system; the
State is in the first year of | 16 | | a massive implementation of statewide Medicaid managed care for
| 17 | | more than 50% of the Medicaid population; in addition, Illinois | 18 | | has elected to experiment with
different models of coordinated | 19 | | care intended to evaluate the effectiveness of traditional
| 20 | | Managed Care Organizations and less traditional Accountable | 21 | | Care Entities (hospital-led ACO
models) and Coordinated Care | 22 | | Entities (home health models led by community-based providers
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| 1 | | targeted to special needs populations); reductions in Medicaid | 2 | | can result in disruption of these
systemic changes; and | 3 | | WHEREAS, Comprehensive health care provided through | 4 | | Medicaid reduces the
incidence of depression, ensures that more | 5 | | women are able to receive important preventive
services, such | 6 | | as cancer screenings, and decreases mortality rates; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, Illinois has already undertaken significant | 8 | | reductions to the Medicaid
program; through the "Save Medicaid | 9 | | Access and Resources Together Act" (SMART Act), we made nearly
| 10 | | $1 billion in 62 spending reductions, utilization controls, and | 11 | | provider cuts; and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, Numerous organizations, public health entities, | 13 | | and impacted citizens are
dependent on the Illinois Medicaid | 14 | | program; therefore, be it
| 15 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 16 | | NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 17 | | do not support
changes to Medicaid eligibility groups that | 18 | | leave currently covered people without access to
| 19 | | comprehensive, affordable health coverage and health care; and | 20 | | be it further | 21 | | RESOLVED, That we do not support reductions in Medicaid |
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| 1 | | covered services that leave beneficiaries without access to | 2 | | medically necessary health care; and be it further | 3 | | RESOLVED, That we do not support
reductions to plan or | 4 | | provider rates that reduce the access that eligible Medicaid | 5 | | beneficiaries
have to medically necessary services; and be it | 6 | | further | 7 | | RESOLVED, That we do not support
implementation of | 8 | | procedures that would result in the erroneous denial or | 9 | | termination of eligibility
or services to eligible Medicaid | 10 | | beneficiaries.
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