HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 14
(By Delegates Staggers, Amores, Argento, Barker, Beach, Boggs,
Brown, Burdiss, Canterbury, Caputo, Craig, Crosier, DeLong,
Doyle, Eldridge, Ellis, Ennis, Fleischauer, Guthrie, Hartman,
Hatfield, Hrutkay, Hutchins, Kominar, Manchin, Marshall, Martin,
Moore, Morgan, Moye, Palumbo, Perdue, Perry, Pino, D. Poling, M.
Poling, Porter, Proudfoot, Reynolds, Rodighiero, Shaver, Shook,
Spencer, Stephens, Swartzmiller, Tabb, Webster, Wells, White,
Williams and Wysong)
Requesting the Joint Committee on Government and Finance study the
state of the delivery of health care in West Virginia to
address: (1) Access to care; (2) insurance coverage; and (3)
a single payor plan.
Whereas, There is a crucial need for access to health care in
this state, which is currently not being met by the state and
federal government, health care providers and insurance programs;
and
Whereas, The coordination of a single payor, state operated
insurance system for health care for every person may be achievable
with the coordination of services through the fifty-five county
health departments, providing insurance coverage through the PEIA
to volunteer health care providers working out of the county health departments and consolidation of funding sources and economies of
scale in providing health care services; and
Whereas, The health care crisis in West Virginia and the United
States continues as more and more people lose their health care
insurance and rely on the provision of health care in emergency
rooms which results in high costs of professional liability
insurance for physicians, impeding access of other patients to care
by emergency physicians and other specialists such as surgeons,
obstetricians, and neurosurgeons and results in attrition and an
inability to recruit new physicians to West Virginia; which is
compounded by federal law that requires emergency departments to
care for everyone but does not provide for payment of these
mandated services; therefore, be it
Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Joint Committee on Government and Finance is hereby
requested to study the state of the delivery of health care in West
Virginia to address: (1) Access to care; (2) insurance coverage;
and (3) a single payor plan; and, be it
Further Resolved, That the Joint Committee on Government and
Finance report to the regular session of the Legislature, 2008, on
its findings, conclusions and recommendations, together with drafts
of any legislation necessary to effectuate its recommendations;
and, be it
Further Resolved, That the expenses necessary to conduct this study, to prepare a report and to draft necessary legislation be
paid from legislative appropriations to the Joint Committee on
Government and Finance.
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