Full Text of HR0702 98th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, Health care and health insurance are among the | 3 | | highest necessities of life for more than 12,000,000 residents | 4 | | of Illinois; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Health insurance policies previously offered for | 6 | | sale to American citizens, and enjoyed by them as the result of | 7 | | transactions in a voluntary marketplace, are being withdrawn | 8 | | and banned from sale, partly as a result of their partial | 9 | | compliance or non-compliance with a long and complex set of | 10 | | mandates that will be imposed upon American private-sector | 11 | | health insurance plans starting on January 1, 2014; and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, Many of the men, women, and children who are | 13 | | currently learning that their health insurance policies will be | 14 | | much more expensive, or will not be renewed, live and work in | 15 | | Illinois; and
| 16 | | WHEREAS, It is the duty of the Illinois House of | 17 | | Representatives to listen to the concerns of these individuals, | 18 | | who are faced with the imminent threat of not having insurance | 19 | | to provide for the random chances of health and life; and
| 20 | | WHEREAS, These individuals had been told that if they | 21 | | wanted to keep their existing insurance policies, they would be |
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| 1 | | able to do so, but current events are placing this pledge in | 2 | | serious doubt, and adding to a wave of apprehension and even | 3 | | fear among many thousands of Illinoisans as they search for | 4 | | health-care options for themselves and their loved ones; and | 5 | | WHEREAS, Those Illinoisans who are searching for potential | 6 | | coverage in 2014 and following years on the federal website | 7 | | "HealthCare.gov" are finding a poorly designed website that, in | 8 | | many cases, is unable to offer customers a choice of insurance | 9 | | policies comparable to the policy choices that they previously | 10 | | enjoyed, or to the policy that they had previously purchased | 11 | | and wanted to continue to keep; and | 12 | | WHEREAS, In some cases, customers find "HealthCare.gov" | 13 | | becomes unhelpful for them after they have submitted extremely | 14 | | confidential personal financial information about themselves, | 15 | | thereby potentially compromising their deepest privacy without | 16 | | giving them even the opportunity to purchase health care | 17 | | insurance in return; and | 18 | | WHEREAS, Current United States' press coverage is | 19 | | providing background information to explain the poor | 20 | | performance of "HealthCare.gov", including the revelation that | 21 | | even after a series of emergency fixes is applied to the | 22 | | website over the next few weeks, the site is not expected to | 23 | | have the capacity to handle more than a fraction of the |
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| 1 | | inquiries and transactions that will be imposed upon it if all | 2 | | of the millions of Americans who have been mandated to purchase | 3 | | private-sector health care insurance under the Affordable Care | 4 | | Act attempt to do so using the key website; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Responding to this crisis, bipartisan members of | 6 | | the U.S. Congress have expressed their support for the | 7 | | principle that "if you have a health insurance policy and you | 8 | | like it, you ought to be able to keep it"; therefore, be it
| 9 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 10 | | NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 11 | | we support legislation currently up for passage in the United | 12 | | States House of Representatives, the Keep Your Health Plan Act | 13 | | (H.R. 3350), that will re-open the legal right of American | 14 | | citizens, including Illinoisans, to continue to buy and enjoy, | 15 | | in 2014, the health insurance policies that they voluntarily | 16 | | chose to buy to protect themselves in 2013; and be it further
| 17 | | RESOLVED, That we congratulate the lawmakers of both | 18 | | parties that are working together to fix this problem in a | 19 | | spirit of problem-solving and bipartisanship; and be it further | 20 | | RESOLVED, That we affirm the right of Illinois citizens and | 21 | | residents to select their own health insurance policies on the | 22 | | basis of their own knowledge of what is appropriate for them, |
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| 1 | | and congratulate all of those who have spoken out, as citizens | 2 | | and as Americans, in defense of this right; and be it further | 3 | | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | 4 | | provided to all 18 members of the Illinois Congressional | 5 | | Delegation and to U.S. Senators Richard J. Durbin and Mark | 6 | | Kirk.
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