https://cook-county.legistar.com/Gateway.aspx?M=LD&From=RSS&ID=3967407&GUID=9F478FC7-F30D-4F6D-A39D-052B46095992Legistar15https://cook-county.legistar.com/Gateway.aspx?M=LD&From=RSS&ID=3967407&GUID=9F478FC7-F30D-4F6D-A39D-052B460959929F478FC7-F30D-4F6D-A39D-052B46095992-2019-07-05-21-02-48Title: PROPOSED RESOLUTION RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF H.R. 1384 - THE MEDICARE FOR ALL ACT WHEREAS, the United States spends nearly twice as much per capita on health care as all other comparable countries and yet ranks only 35th in the world by global health standards, including on such critical barometers as average life expectancy, infant mortality, maternal mortality, and death from preventable diseases; and WHEREAS, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) enacted important improvements, primarily through the expansion of Medicaid in states that have agreed to do so, and limits on some insurance industry abuses, that reform left tens of millions with a continuing crisis in access, cost, and quality of care; and WHEREAS, the uninsured rate for U.S. adults has risen for four straight years up to nearly 30 million, even after implementation of the ACA, with the greatest increase among women, young adults, and lower-income people; and WHEREAS, tens of millions more who pay for insurance remain underinsured due to the still largely unregulated high cost of medical care that has led to oneFri, 05 Jul 2019 21:02:48 GMT