Bill Text: TX HCR29 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Urging Congress to establish a Medicaid block grant program for Texas.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-25 - Referred to Appropriations [HCR29 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HCR29-Introduced.html
  86R3549 SME-D
 
  By: Landgraf H.C.R. No. 29
 
 
 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
         WHEREAS, The State of Texas could produce better health
  outcomes for enrollees and could better protect taxpayers through
  Medicaid block grants; and
         WHEREAS, States are often constrained in delivering adequate
  health care to residents in need because of onerous federal
  regulations; block grants, however, would enable states to design
  health care programs that best serve their citizens and to better
  handle fluctuations in the economy, population growth, and health
  care costs; and
         WHEREAS, According to the Texas Health and Human Services
  Commission, the state would have saved $4 billion on health care in
  2015 by using block grants instead of the present Medicaid model;
  moreover, annual cost savings under a block grant program could
  exceed $6 billion by 2023; and
         WHEREAS, Such savings could allow the state to increase
  public education funding and relieve a notable burden from school
  districts and property tax payers; currently, Texas provides less
  than 40 percent of funding for school districts, with property
  taxes making up the difference; without additional funding by the
  state, the obligation will continue to fall to homeowners; and
         WHEREAS, The current Medicaid program constrains the state's
  ability to address health care needs at the local level and places
  unnecessary financial strain on taxpayers; savings from block
  grants would allow Texas to better address the needs of its citizens
  at the local level; now, therefore, be it
         RESOLVED, That the 86th Legislature of the State of Texas
  hereby urge the United States Congress to provide the Lone Star
  State with Medicaid block grants and allow Texas to administer its
  own health care for the poor; and, be it further
         RESOLVED, That the Texas secretary of state forward official
  copies of this resolution to the president of the United States, to
  the president of the Senate and the speaker of the House of
  Representatives of the United States Congress, and to all members
  of the Texas delegation to Congress with the request that this
  resolution be entered in the Congressional Record as a memorial to
  the Congress of the United States of America.
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