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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The Department of Central Management Services |
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| recently decided to replace Vision Service
Plan (VSP) with |
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| Spectera as the administrator of the vision care benefit plan |
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| for State employees, dependents, and retirees beginning in |
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| Fiscal Year 2005; and
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| WHEREAS, Developing a long-term relationship with a |
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| trusted family ophthalmologist or optometrist and a trusted |
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| family optician can greatly improve the quality of vision care; |
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| however, a move from VSP to Spectera would require some State |
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| employees to seek new providers in order to continue to receive |
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| in-network services since Spectera would be the only vision |
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| care benefit plan choice; and
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| WHEREAS, Job preservation is a high priority for the State |
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| of Illinois; however, a move from VSP to Spectera would |
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| adversely affect Illinois jobs and businesses and our State's |
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| economy because Spectera would require some providers to use |
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| Spectera's dispensing laboratory in Maryland rather than the |
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| dispensing laboratories throughout Illinois that are now used |
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| by VSP providers; and
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| WHEREAS, The Illinois Economic and Fiscal Commission |
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| reportedly voted on May 18, 2004 to extend the State's contract |
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| with VSP for Fiscal Year 2005, and it the Department of Central |
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| Management Services has reportedly agreed to reverse its |
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| earlier decision and negotiate with VSP for a contract for |
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| Fiscal Year 2005; however, this is a matter of continuing |
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| concern; and
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| WHEREAS, All of the consequences of any action taken should |
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| be fully considered in determining whether that action is in |
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| the best interests of the State of Illinois; therefore, be it
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