City of Baltimore - File #: 07-0287R

• File #: 07-0287R
• Version: 0
• Name: Martin Luther King National Healthcare Month
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 4/23/2007
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 4/23/2007
• Title: Martin Luther King National Healthcare Month FOR the purpose of expressing support for Representative John Conyers, Jr.'s legislation that seeks to ensure that guaranteed by law, all Americans, will have access to the highest quality, cost effective health care from birth to death regardless of an individual's employment, income, or health care status; and urging the Maryland State Delegation to the 112th Congress to secure final passage of the legislation.
• Sponsors: Mary Pat Clarke, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, James B. Kraft, Robert Curran, Helen L. Holton, Sharon Green Middleton, Vernon E. Crider, Stephanie President Rawlings-Blake, Kenneth Harris, President Young, Rochelle Spector, Edward Reisinger, Agnes Welch, Keiffer Mitchell
• Indexes: Health Care, Martin Luther King, Jr., Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
4/23/2007	0	City Council	Introduced
4/23/2007	0	City Council	Adopted

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: Councilmember Clarke


A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
Title
Martin Luther King National Healthcare Month

FOR the purpose of expressing support for Representative John Conyers, Jr.'s legislation that seeks to ensure that guaranteed by law, all Americans, will have access to the highest quality, cost effective health care from birth to death regardless of an individual's employment, income, or health care status; and urging the Maryland State Delegation to the 112th Congress to secure final passage of the legislation.
Body
Recitals

April is Martin Luther King National Health Care Month. The United States' health care system is currently in a state of crisis. The cost of private health insurance premiums is rising by more than 10% each year, which is much greater than the yearly increase in wages. Each year, more employers either drop health insurance benefits or shift more of the burden to the employees by requiring higher contributions or higher deductibles. Each year, more workers find they are unable to afford health insurance. When employees are required to pay more for health care, they forego needed preventive care and timely treatment of medical conditions.

The United States is the only industrialized country in the world without a national health care system. The United States ranks 37th in the world, at the bottom of all industrialized nations, in health outcomes. ...