Bill Text: OH SCR19 | 2009-2010 | 128th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: As Introduced 128th General AssemblyRegular Session2009-2010S. C. R. No. 19 Senator Grendell
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-09-22 - To Health, Human Services, & Aging [SCR19 Detail]
Download: Ohio-2009-SCR19-Introduced.html
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Senator Grendell
Cosponsors:
Senators Gibbs, Hughes, Schaffer
To urge the President and the Congress of the United | 1 |
States to protect the rights of seniors when | 2 |
considering proposals for health care reform. | 3 |
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE STATE OF OHIO
(THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CONCURRING):
WHEREAS, The President and the Congress of the United States | 4 |
are engaged in a critical debate about health care reform; and | 5 |
WHEREAS, Seniors have earned the right to be treated with | 6 |
dignity and respect; and | 7 |
WHEREAS, The Medicare program created in 1965 provided health | 8 |
insurance to an estimated 44.8 million beneficiaries in 2008, | 9 |
including 37.6 million seniors; and | 10 |
WHEREAS, Medicare benefits are critically important to | 11 |
seniors and must not be reduced to fund health care reform; and | 12 |
WHEREAS, Medicare beneficiaries should not be forced to | 13 |
accept changes to their Medicare coverage to fund a new health | 14 |
care program; and | 15 |
WHEREAS, There is concern that health care reform proposals | 16 |
under consideration could reduce patients' power to control their | 17 |
own medical decisions and create government boards to decide | 18 |
whether treatments are funded; and | 19 |
WHEREAS, There are further concerns that health care reform | 20 |
could include programs leading to rationing of medical treatment | 21 |
based on age; and | 22 |
WHEREAS, The government should not interfere with end-of-life | 23 |
discussions between a doctor and patient; and | 24 |
WHEREAS, The government should honor its promises to our | 25 |
seniors who are veterans by preserving Tricare and other military | 26 |
retiree benefit programs; now therefore be it | 27 |
RESOLVED, That we, the members of the 128th General Assembly | 28 |
of the State of Ohio, urge the President and Congress to protect | 29 |
the rights of seniors when debating health care reform; and be it | 30 |
further | 31 |
RESOLVED, That we, the members of the 128th General Assembly | 32 |
of the State of Ohio, urge the President and Congress of the | 33 |
United States to reject any health care reform proposal that would | 34 |
jeopardize those rights by reducing Medicare benefits, forcing | 35 |
seniors to accept changes to their Medicare coverage, interfering | 36 |
with the doctor-patient relationship, rationing health care based | 37 |
on age, injecting the government into end-of-life care | 38 |
discussions, or raising health care costs for military veterans; | 39 |
and be it further | 40 |
RESOLVED, That the Clerk of the Senate transmit authenticated | 41 |
copies of this resolution to the President of the United States, | 42 |
the President Pro Tempore of the United States Senate, the Speaker | 43 |
of the United States House of Representatives, each member of the | 44 |
Ohio Congressional delegation, and the news media of Ohio. | 45 |