Bill Text: HI SCR208 | 2022 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Urging The United States Congress And Hawaii's Congressional Delegation To Support Legislation Establishing Medicare For All.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-04-19 - Report adopted; referred to the committee(s) on CPC with none voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Matsumoto, McDermott, Okimoto voting no (3) and Representative(s) Hashimoto, McKelvey, Ward excused (3). [SCR208 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2022-SCR208-Amended.html
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THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2022 |
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SENATE CONCURRENT
RESOLUTION
URGING THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS AND HAWAII'S CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION TO SUPPORT LEGISLATION ESTABLISHING MEDICARE FOR ALL.
WHEREAS, Hawaii's residents deserve high quality health care; and
WHEREAS, the economic vitality of Hawaii is closely linked to the physical well-being of its residents; and
WHEREAS, the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic led to record levels of unemployment and the loss of employer-sponsored health insurance for hundreds of thousands of Hawaii's workers; and
WHEREAS, according to a University of Michigan study published in 2010, Native Hawaiians are far more likely to suffer an early death in comparison to Caucasians; and
WHEREAS, people often delay needed medical treatments due to an inability to pay for health care costs, which further jeopardizes the health of those individuals; and
WHEREAS, these individuals are significantly more likely to develop serious illness if they contract COVID-19; and
WHEREAS, managed care and other market-based reforms have failed to contain health care costs, resulting in medical problems and cost burdens for working families; and
WHEREAS, under a single-payer health care system, non-medical expenses nationwide could be reduced to approximately six to eight percent of total health care costs, saving more than one trillion dollars; and
WHEREAS, Medicare for All would provide national health insurance without copayments and deductibles for every person in the United States for all necessary medical care, including prescription drugs, hospital visits, surgical and outpatient services, primary and preventive care, emergency services, reproductive care, dental and vision services, and long-term care; now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the Thirty-first Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2022, the House of Representatives concurring, that the United States Congress and Hawaii's congressional delegation are urged to support legislation establishing Medicare for All; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, President of the United States Senate, and members of the Hawaii congressional delegation.
Medicare For All; Legislation; Health Care
