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COUNTY OF HAWAII STATE OF HAWAII
RESOLUTION NO. 491 08
A RESOLUTION SUPPORTING H.B. 1598 WHICH WOULD ESTABLISH AN
AGENCY TO OPERATE ASINGLE-PAYER UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE
INSURANCE SYSTEM.
WHEREAS, the Hawaii County Council finds that it is in the best interest of the
State of Hawaii for each and every permanent resident to have high quality and affordable
healthcaze insurance coverage; and
WHEREAS, healthcare is more than just medical insurance payouts, it includes cost-
saving and early intervention measures to prevent conditions from becoming chronic,
permanently disabling or fatal; and
WHEREAS, Hawai`i's current healthcare insurance complex is a disjointed, costly,
inefficient, and unnecessarily complicated multi-payer private medical insurance model that is
mostly profit-driven, adversarial, beset with constant cost-shifting and reluctant healthcare
delivery, onerously bureaucratic, and generally economically irrational; and
WHEREAS, healthcaze rates are skyrocketing at or near double-digit annual rates
and are creating an affordability and accessibility crisis for Hawai`i's residents; and
WHEREAS, the Council of the County of Hawaii supports the passage of H.B. 1598,
as evidenced by the passage of Resolution 442-07 in its meeting on January 9, 2008,
introduced by Council Member Yoshimoto, urging the United States Congress to pass H.R.
676 that would establish the United States National Health Insurance Act; and
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII, that
the Council of the County of Hawaii urges the Hawaii State Legislature to pass H.B. 1598
establishing an agency to operate asingle-payer universal healthcare insurance system.
BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that the County Clerk shall forward a copy of this
resolution to the members of the Hawaii State House of Representatives and the Hawaii State
Senate.
Dated at Hilo , Hawaii, this 6th day of Februarv , 2007.
INTRODUCED BY:
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COUNCIL MBER, COUNTY OF HAWAII
COUNTY COUNCIL ROLL CALL VOTE
County of Hawaii AYES NOES ABS EX
Hilo, Hawaii FORD x
HIGA X
I hereby certify that the foregoing RESOLUTION was by HOFFMANN X
the vote indicated to the right hereof adopted by the COUNCIL of the IKEDA g
County ofHawai`ion February 6, 2008
JACOBSON g
NAEOLE
ATTEST: PILAGO X
YAGONG X
YOSHIMOTO X
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Reference: C-932/PWIRC-51
COUNTY CLERK CHAIRMAN P SI ING FFICER RESOLUTION NO. ~91 ~8
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