Senate Bill 2102

    Florida Senate - 1998        (NP)                      SR 2102

    By Senator Bankhead





    8-1700-98

  1                    Senate Resolution No.     

  2         A resolution commending the health maintenance

  3         organization industry and recognizing March 11,

  4         1998, as "Florida HMO Day."

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  6         WHEREAS, by fostering healthful behaviors and habits in

  7  members when they are young, health maintenance organizations

  8  influence and promote healthful behaviors that will remain

  9  with children throughout their lives, and

10         WHEREAS, health maintenance organizations have helped

11  reduce the infant mortality rate in this state by 22 percent

12  over the last 5 years, and

13         WHEREAS, health maintenance organizations have played a

14  major role in timely immunizing 83 percent of the 2-year-old

15  children in this state, and

16         WHEREAS, the nationally renowned Florida Healthy Kids

17  program relies on health maintenance organizations exclusively

18  to provide health care coverage, and

19         WHEREAS, the Institute for Child Health Policy reports

20  that 94 percent of Florida Healthy Kids enrollees say that

21  they are very satisfied with their access to care and their

22  relationship with their health care providers, and

23         WHEREAS, a preliminary report from the Institute for

24  Child Health Policy shows that between 83 percent and 90

25  percent of children enrolled in health maintenance

26  organizations have received immunizations in accordance with

27  the guidelines of the American Association of Pediatrics, and

28         WHEREAS, a study by the Institute for Child Health

29  Policy shows that children's health care utilization rates in

30  the Florida Healthy Kids program matched projected health care

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  1  utilization rates, based on diagnoses and health care needs,

  2  and

  3         WHEREAS, health maintenance organizations have saved

  4  state tax payers more than $100 million in health care costs

  5  over the last 3 years, and

  6         WHEREAS, health maintenance organizations help provide

  7  coverage to many of the state's 823,000 uninsured children,

  8  NOW, THEREFORE,

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10  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:

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12         That the health maintenance organization industry is

13  commended for its contributions to the health of the residents

14  of this state.

15         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that March 11, 1998, is

16  recognized as "Florida HMO Day" by the Florida Senate.

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