HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1976.09.16 - 143827690 Miscellaneous Resolution September 16, 1976
Befty Foifino, Chairman
BY: HUMAN RESOURCES COMMITTEE - Betty J. Fortino, Chairman
IN RE: OPPOSITION TO MEDICAID CUTBACK
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS the recent Medicaid limitations required by the Governor's
Executive Order 1975-12 impose extreme hardship on elderly, handicapped
and poor people; and
WHEREAS these limitations cut the payment for certain needed services
and curtail physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy and
psychiatric care, and reduce the protected income level of Medicaid only
recipients from 110% to 100% of the public assistance standard; and
WHEREAS agencies providing rehabilitation services for people
may need to reduce those services because of the Medicaid limitations.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED the Board'of Commissioners of the
County of Oakland urges Governor Milliken and the State Legislature to restore
cuts required under Executive Order 1975-12 and to maintain adequate levels
of funding in 1976-77.
The Human Resources Committee by Betty J. Fortino, Chairman moves
the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
HUMAN RESOURCES COMMITTEE
By. V' s ...Deputy Clerk
#7690
Moved by Fortino supported by Simmons the resolution be adopted. .
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution was adopted.
Mr. Gabler voted 'no'.
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
1, Lynn D. Allen, Clerk of the County of Oakland and
'having a seal, do hereby certify that I have copared the annexed copy of
Miscellaneous Resolution #7690 adopted by the Oakland COunty Board of
Commissioners at their meeting held on September 16, 1976
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with the original record thereof now remaining in my
office, and that it is a true and correct transcript
therefrom, and of the whole thereof.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the seal of said County at Pontiac, Michigan
this day 0f...5qPWIPAC.a..19-7,6
Lynn D.