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1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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2 | WHEREAS, The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was | ||||||
3 | signed into law on March 23, 2010, signifying a historic change | ||||||
4 | in access to health care in the United States; and
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5 | WHEREAS, The Affordable Care Act expands health coverage | ||||||
6 | options through health insurance marketplaces and Medicaid, | ||||||
7 | allowing consumers more affordable and comprehensive coverage | ||||||
8 | options; and
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9 | WHEREAS, Governor Pat Quinn issued Executive Order | ||||||
10 | #2010-12 establishing the Health Care Reform Implementation | ||||||
11 | Council, which was charged with making recommendations to | ||||||
12 | assist the State in establishing a State Based Marketplace, | ||||||
13 | establish consumer protections reforms, reform Medicaid, | ||||||
14 | assure high quality care, and adopt the use of electronic | ||||||
15 | medical records; and
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16 | WHEREAS, A State Based Marketplace was the unanimous | ||||||
17 | recommendation of the Health Care Reform Implementation | ||||||
18 | Council; after holding hearings throughout Illinois, | ||||||
19 | businesses, labor, consumers, and insurers agreed that a State | ||||||
20 | exchange was preferable to a Federally Facilitated | ||||||
21 | Marketplace; and
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1 | WHEREAS, The General Assembly passed and Governor Quinn | ||||||
2 | signed Public Act 97-0412 in 2011, the Illinois Health Benefits | ||||||
3 | Exchange Law, establishing the intent for Illinois to operate a | ||||||
4 | State Based Marketplace for individuals and small businesses | ||||||
5 | and creating a Legislative Study Committee on the subject; and | ||||||
6 | WHEREAS, Based on Public Act 97-0312 and the recommendation | ||||||
7 | of the Health Care Reform Implementation Council, Governor | ||||||
8 | Quinn submitted his intent to the Department of Health and | ||||||
9 | Human Services for Illinois to function in a partnership | ||||||
10 | capacity with the Federally Facilitated Marketplace until the | ||||||
11 | State marketplace became operational; and
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12 | WHEREAS, Illinois has functioned as a State Partnership | ||||||
13 | Marketplace since October 1, 2013, branding the campaign as Get | ||||||
14 | Covered Illinois, and enrolling more than 217,000 people in the | ||||||
15 | Federal Health Insurance Marketplace by working with many | ||||||
16 | partners across the State; and | ||||||
17 | WHEREAS, Some state-based marketplaces have functioned | ||||||
18 | well (generally accepted as including Connecticut, Kentucky, | ||||||
19 | New York, and California) and others have functioned poorly | ||||||
20 | (commonly considered as including Oregon and Maryland); and
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21 | WHEREAS, States with poorly functioning marketplaces are | ||||||
22 | exploring the utilization of the IT platform from states with |
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1 | smoothly operating marketplaces; and | ||||||
2 | WHEREAS, The state of Maryland has concluded that costs of | ||||||
3 | adopting the IT platform from Kentucky and Connecticut are | ||||||
4 | greatly reduced compared to the costs of constructing a new | ||||||
5 | state marketplace and would provide a well-functioning state | ||||||
6 | marketplace with much less risk in a shorter period of time; | ||||||
7 | therefore, be it
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8 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
9 | NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | ||||||
10 | the Governor's Office of Health Innovation and Transformation, | ||||||
11 | in collaboration with the Illinois Health Insurance | ||||||
12 | Marketplace, is requested to assess the experiences of State | ||||||
13 | Based Marketplaces during their first year of operation and | ||||||
14 | identify those states whose marketplaces worked as intended and | ||||||
15 | whose IT platforms would be compatible with the State's | ||||||
16 | Medicaid Integrated Eligibility System and could serve as the | ||||||
17 | technological base for an Illinois state-based marketplace; | ||||||
18 | and be it further
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19 | RESOLVED, That we urge the Governor's Office of Health | ||||||
20 | Innovation and Transformation to submit the results of the | ||||||
21 | assessment to the House of Representatives by November 10, | ||||||
22 | 2014, for its consideration of options for maintaining the | ||||||
23 | federally-facilitated marketplace or developing a State Based |
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1 | Marketplace that meets the needs of Illinois while federal | ||||||
2 | funding for state-based marketplaces is still available.
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