HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2009.09.02 - 9959MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION 109206
BY: Robert M. Gosselin, District #13
IN RE: BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS - OPPOSE PASSAGE OF U.S. CONGRESS COMPREHENSIVE
FEDERAL HEALTH REFORM LEGISLATION HB 3200
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairman, Ladies, and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS the Unite° States is struggling through a severe, economic recession that is negatively
affecting families of all income levels, causing a decrease in those income levels; and
WHEREAS Congressman Gary Peters had a Town Hall meeting Sept. 1 where full disclosure of the
contents of HB 3200 were not answered, leaving issues of the bill in question; and
WHEREAS Oakland County Officials are 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 HO 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 HB 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 HB 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 (NACo) 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 #09206 September 2, 2009
Moved by Gosselin supported by Potts to suspend the rules and vote on MISCELLANEOUS
RESOLUTION #09206 - BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS - OPPOSE PASSAGE OF U.S. CONGRESS
COMPREHENSIVE FEDERAL HEALTH REFORM LEGISLATION HB 3200.
Discussion followed.
Vote on motion to suspend the rules:
AYES: Runestad, Scott, Taub, Douglas, Gingell, Gosselin, Jacobsen, Long, Middleton. (9)
NAYS: Nash, Potter, Potts, Schwartz. Woodward, Zack, Bullard, Burns, Capella, Coleman,
Coulter, Gershenson, Greimel. Hatchett, Jackson, McGillivray. (16)
A sufficient majority not having voted in favor, the motion to suspend the rules and vote on
MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #09206 - BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS - OPPOSE PASSAGE OF
U.S. CONGRESS COMPREHENSIVE FEDERAL HEALTH REFORM LEGISLATION HB 3200 failed.
The Chairperson referred the resolution to the General Government Committee. There were no
objections.