Bill Text: TX HCR58 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Urging Congress to provide Texas with Medicaid block grants.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-30 - Left pending in committee [HCR58 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HCR58-Introduced.html
| 85R8700 RMA-D | ||
| By: Lozano | H.C.R. No. 58 | |
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| WHEREAS, The State of Texas could produce greater health | ||
| outcomes for enrollees and better protect taxpayers through | ||
| Medicaid block grants; and | ||
| WHEREAS, States are often constrained in delivering adequate | ||
| health care to residents in need because of onerous federal | ||
| regulations; block grants, however, would enable states to design | ||
| health care programs that best serve their citizens and to better | ||
| handle fluctuations in the economy, population growth, and health | ||
| care costs; and | ||
| WHEREAS, According to the Texas Health and Human Services | ||
| Commission, the state would have saved $4 billion on health care in | ||
| 2015 by using block grants instead of the present Medicaid model; | ||
| moreover, annual cost savings under a block grant program could | ||
| exceed $6 billion by 2023; and | ||
| WHEREAS, The current Medicaid program is not only | ||
| unsustainable but also less effective than a state-based system; as | ||
| the cost of the entitlement continues to rise and to strain state | ||
| budgets across the nation, the federal government should instead | ||
| empower states to address health care needs at the local level; now, | ||
| therefore, be it | ||
| RESOLVED, That the 85th Legislature of the State of Texas | ||
| hereby urge the United States Congress to provide the Lone Star | ||
| State with Medicaid block grants and allow Texas to create its own | ||
| health care program for the poor; and, be it further | ||
| RESOLVED, That the Texas secretary of state forward official | ||
| copies of this resolution to the president of the United States, to | ||
| the president of the Senate and the speaker of the House of | ||
| Representatives of the United States Congress, and to all the | ||
| members of the Texas delegation to Congress with the request that | ||
| this resolution be entered in the Congressional Record as a | ||
| memorial to the Congress of the United States of America. | ||
