Bill Text: WV HR18 | 2019 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Supporting federal law protections for the health care of West Virginians
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 26-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-06 - To House Health and Human Resources [HR18 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2019-HR18-Introduced.html
HOUSE RESOLUTION 18
(By Delegates Rowe, Estep-Burton, Hansen, Pushkin, Walker, Robinson, Longstreth, Byrd, Williams, Zukoff, Pyles, Lavender-Bowe, Skaff, Bates, Canestraro, Fleischauer, Diserio, Pethtel, Angelucci, Boggs, C. Thompson, Sponaugle, S. Brown, Hornbuckle, Evans and Fluharty)
[Introduced March 6, 2019]
Supporting federal law protections for the health care of thousands of West Virginians and objecting to a federal court order to end those protections.
Whereas, On December 14, 2018, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, in the case of Texas, et al, v. United States of America, entered a ruling to end many current federal law protections for affordable healthcare; and
Whereas, That federal court ruling would end federal law protections among others relied on by (1) West Virginians with preexisting conditions such as diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and other conditions; (2) West Virginians who are enrolled in the expansion of Medicaid; (3) young West Virginians who need health coverage through their parent’s policies until the of age 26; and (4) West Virginians on Medicare who need protection against out of control prescription drug costs; and
Whereas, This court ruling would end health care protections and threaten the well-being of most all West Virginians, including 740,000 people with preexisting conditions, 90,600 of whom are children; 540,000 West Virginians enrolled in expanded Medicaid; 410,000 West Virginians on Medicare; and thousands of other young West Virginians who have been insured through their parent’s policies; and
Whereas, An appeal from this court ruling is now in process; and
Whereas, The House of Delegates, on behalf of the health and welfare of all West Virginians, should take a stand against that federal court ruling in order to protect federal law protections on health care for most all West Virginians; therefore, be it
Resolved by the House of Delegates:
That, On behalf of the health and well-being of all West Virginians, the House of Delegates supports the duly-enacted federal law protections for preexisting condition coverage; expanded Medicaid coverage; adult children coverage through age 26; and Medicare prescription drug coverage; and, be it
Further Resolved, That the House of Delegates objects to the federal district court’s ruling to end those and other current federal law protections as contrary to the best interests of the people of West Virginia; and, be it
Further Resolved, That the House of Delegates supports reversal of the ruling of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas through the appeal now pending.
