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Clerk 07/20/2009
Title
A MOTION urging the 111th Congress of the United States to enact comprehensive health reform in 2009.
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WHEREAS, King County through its agencies including the Seattle-King County department of public health is charged with protecting and improving the well-being of one million eight hundred thousand residents of King County, and
WHEREAS, in 2007, 12.6 percent of King County adults under age sixty-five were uninsured and many more were underinsured, and
WHEREAS numerous studies show that every year our current health care system delivers poorer quality care to fewer people at increasingly higher cost, and
WHEREAS, these conditions are being faced everyday by more currently insured King County families in the form of higher premiums and deductibles, and
WHEREAS, these conditions increasingly threaten the both insured and the uninsured in the form of compromised health, mental illness and financial destitution, and
WHEREAS, a health safety net in King County provides health services to people who are uninsured or underinsured or who have difficultly accessing health care and is comprised of county-owned and operated public health centers, private not-for-profit community health centers, and many other private providers, and
WHEREAS, King County provided health services to over one hundred twenty thousand clients through its public health centers in 2007, and
WHEREAS, all parts of the health safety net are financially challenged, and
WHEREAS, the public health operational master plan ("PHOMP") establishes a four-year goal for King County of increasing access to affordable, quality health care through, in part, advocating for health care system reform, and
WHEREAS, the PHOMP establishes a four-year goal for King County to increase the financing stability for public health through, in part, advocating for health care financing reform, and
WHEREAS, in Resolution 08-10 the King County board of health found th...

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