HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2009.08.12 - 9707Miscellaneous Resolution # 09176
BY: Commissioner Robert M. Uosselin, District #13
IN RE: Board of Commissioners - Oppose Passage of U.S. Congress Comprehensive
Federal Health Reform Legislation BB 3200
TO: The Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairman, Ladies, and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS the United States is struggling through a severe, economic recession that is
negatively affecting families (Ilan income levels, causing a decrease in those income
levels: and
WHEREAS Oakland County Officials arc elected to protect the health and welfare of
their constituents; and
WHEREAS the health system in the United States is not perfect, but it is the best system
in the world that even draws people from all over the world to come and seek their health
solutions here; and
WHEREAS we in the United States are always seeking to improve our health system
here; and
WHEREAS enacting the HB 3200 legislation is not only in the wrong direction in an
attempt to make the world's best health care system even better, but it would essentially
destroy it; and
WHEREAS the additional astronomical cost of enacting FIB 3200 would likely be a
burden too big for this county to bear. possibly taking this county into or near
bankruptcy: and
WHEREAS under this new 11B 3200 system, fewer doctors, nurses and medical
personnel will be available for caring for the increased number of people of the United
States and the world because of governmental oversight as seen in other counties all over
the world.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners strongly urges the 111 th Congress of the United States NOT to enact
comprehensive health reform legislation HB 3200.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
respectfully requests the Oakland County Clerk, Ruth Johnson, to forward copies of this
adopted resolution to the National Association of Counties (NACo) Health System
Reform Group chaired by tNACo) President Valerie Brown. as well as our two Michigan
U.S. Senators and all U.S. Congressional Representatives that represent any part of
Oakland County in Washington D.C.
Chairperson, we move the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
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Resolution #09176 August 12, 2009
The Chairperson referred the resolution to the General Government Committee. There were no
objections.