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1 1 HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. ___
1 2 BY JOHNSON
1 3 A Concurrent Resolution relating to support of the
1 4 State of Minnesota's lawsuit against the federal
1 5 government and the United States Secretary of Health
1 6 and Human Services regarding disparate funding under
1 7 the federal Medicare program.
1 8 WHEREAS, the federal Medicare program was
1 9 established in 1965 to provide uniform health care
1 10 benefits and services to the elderly and certain
1 11 persons with disabilities; and
1 12 WHEREAS, beneficiaries of the federal Medicare
1 13 program contribute in equal percentages, based on
1 14 earnings, to the funding of the federal Medicare
1 15 program; and
1 16 WHEREAS, beginning in 1972, Congress amended the
1 17 federal Social Security Act to utilize managed care
1 18 principals in the federal Medicare program; and
1 19 WHEREAS, these changes have resulted in the use of
1 20 a reimbursement formula that has transformed a
1 21 nondiscriminatory, uniform national program into a
1 22 program in which the availability, cost, and scope of
1 23 additional health benefits available to participants
1 24 in a federal Medicare managed care health plan vary
1 25 drastically, depending upon the county and state in
1 26 which the beneficiary resides, despite the fact that
1 27 all beneficiaries still contribute in equal
1 28 percentages to the funding of the program; and
1 29 WHEREAS, congressional efforts to eliminate the
1 30 disparity in rates paid and in health care benefits
2 1 and services provided have failed to eliminate the
2 2 disparity in the federal Medicare program under
2 3 managed care; and
2 4 WHEREAS, the Attorney General of Minnesota has
2 5 filed a lawsuit on behalf of the State of Minnesota
2 6 claiming that the federal Medicare program is
2 7 violative of the Constitution of the United States on
2 8 the bases of constitutionally protected state
2 9 sovereignty, equal protection, and the right to
2 10 travel; NOW THEREFORE,
2 11 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, THE
2 12 SENATE CONCURRING, That the Iowa General Assembly
2 13 supports the efforts of the Attorney General of
2 14 Minnesota on behalf of the State of Minnesota and
2 15 supports the plaintiff's prayer for declaratory and
2 16 injunctive relief in declaring the federal Medicare
2 17 managed care payment scheme violative of
2 18 constitutionally protected state sovereignty, equal
2 19 protection, and the right to travel, and in enjoining
2 20 the portion of the federal Medicare managed care
2 21 funding scheme that results in discriminatory, unequal
2 22 funding disparities.
2 23 LSB 5618YH 78
2 24 pf/gg/8
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