Full Text of SJR0127 96th General Assembly
SJ0127 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The Tenth Amendment to the United States | 3 |
| Constitution states that, "The powers not delegated to the | 4 |
| United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the | 5 |
| States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the | 6 |
| people"; and
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| WHEREAS, The U.S. Congress has recently passed and the | 8 |
| President has signed into law federal legislation that imposes | 9 |
| mandates on all states with regards to healthcare and | 10 |
| insurance; and requires the expenditure of state funds to | 11 |
| sustain these mandates; and
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| WHEREAS, The federal healthcare mandates expand Medicaid | 13 |
| eligibility to include all adults under age 65 up to 133% of | 14 |
| the Federal Poverty Level (FPL) beginning in 2014; and
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| WHEREAS, The Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family | 16 |
| Services estimates 600,000 to 650,000 people will be newly | 17 |
| eligible under these federal mandates, requiring the | 18 |
| expenditure of State funds increasing yearly to an estimated | 19 |
| annual State expenditure of $195 million beginning in FY 2020; | 20 |
| and
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| WHEREAS, The Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family |
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| Services asserts that under the federal legislation Medicaid | 2 |
| rates paid to doctors will be increased to the level of payment | 3 |
| received for Medicare services, requiring after FY 2014, if the | 4 |
| increased rates are to be maintained by the states, the cost to | 5 |
| the State of Illinois to be an additional $500 to $600 million | 6 |
| annually; and
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| WHEREAS, The federal healthcare initiative recently signed | 8 |
| into law requires maintenance of effort from every state, | 9 |
| including, but not limited to, maintaining current eligibility | 10 |
| requirements for adults until the Health Care Exchange is fully | 11 |
| operational, and current income eligibility levels for | 12 |
| children in Medicaid and CHIP until 2019; and | 13 |
| WHEREAS, The creation of a new federal system of regulation | 14 |
| for health insurance will be inefficient, unnecessary, not | 15 |
| cost-effective, and an additional burden on the health care | 16 |
| delivery system in Illinois; and | 17 |
| WHEREAS, Free and open markets for healthcare can improve | 18 |
| quality, benefits, and customer service to a level that | 19 |
| government-sponsored health plans cannot match; and | 20 |
| WHEREAS, The mandatory insurance measures recently enacted | 21 |
| by Congress and signed into law by the President create a | 22 |
| federally mandated health insurance exchange to compel the |
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| purchase of health insurance by individuals and small | 2 |
| employers; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL | 4 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES | 5 |
| CONCURRING HEREIN, that we urge Congress to immediately | 6 |
| initiate and enact legislation authorizing individual states, | 7 |
| by positive action of their duly elected state legislatures and | 8 |
| assemblies, the right and ability to decidedly remove their | 9 |
| citizens and residents from any and all provisions instituting | 10 |
| new federal review, oversight, or preemption of state health | 11 |
| insurance laws; creation of any federally mandated health | 12 |
| insurance exchange or connector; or mandated expenditure of | 13 |
| state funds to maintain a federal healthcare initiative; and be | 14 |
| it further
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| RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | 16 |
| distributed to all Members of the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of | 17 |
| Representatives elected by the people of the State of Illinois.
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