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HomeMy WebLinkAboutRES 2002-68Resolution No. 2002 - 68 A Resolution of the City Council of the City of Diamond Bar to Support Los Angeles County's Request to Renew the 1115 Waiver (Medicaid). WHEREAS, the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services provides critically important medical services to the residents of this city and county; and WHEREAS, the Department of Health Services delivers care to more than 800,000 people annually, of which 600,000 are uninsured and would be otherwise unable to access quality health care without great difficulty; and WHEREAS, the Department of Health Services has been pursuing the necessary reforms to enable it to more effectively and efficiently serve the general public, cope with rising health care costs, and find ways to provide treatment with a declining budget; and WHEREAS, the 1115 Waiver extended by the federal government provides crucial relief from outdated reimbursement mandates, is essential to the ongoing restructuring effort and its expiration will seriously impair the public's access to health services; and WHEREAS, the prompt renewal of the 1115 Waiver would help limit the deep reductions in health services in Los Angeles County and would enable the Department of Health Services to develop a model of reform for the many other counties facing similar constraints. NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT the City of Diamond Bar City Council calls upon the State of California and the United States Department of Health and Human Services to immediately act to renew the 1115 Waiver and to acknowledge that Los Angeles County's unique situation requires the adoption of a long-term reimbursement formula that will protect the health and safety of all Los Angeles County residents. PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 1 7#-h day of se,]Dtpmhpr _ , 2002. Wen P. Chang, N I, LYNDA BURGESS, City Clerk of the city of Diamond Bar do her by certify that the foregoing Resolution was passed, approved and adopted at the regWar meeting of the City Council of the City of Diamond Bar held on 17th day of September , 2002, by the following vote: AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: Herrera, Huff, zirbes, MPT/O'Connor, M/Chang NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: None ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: None ABSTAINED: COUNCILMEMBERS: None ATTEST: L nda Burgess, City Clerk 2002-68