Senate Bill sb2386

    Florida Senate - 2001        (NP)                      SR 2386

    By Senators Brown-Waite, Horne, Mitchell, Holzendorf, Clary,
    Lee, Constantine, Wasserman Schultz, Sullivan, Sebesta,
    Latvala, Dyer, Burt, Bronson, Dawson, Campbell, Geller, Crist,
    King, Cowin, Villalobos, Peaden, Sanderson, Miller, Saunders,
    (Additional Sponsors on Last Printed Page)

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  1                    Senate Resolution No. ____

  2         A resolution urging Congress to adopt

  3         prescription drug coverage for all Medicare

  4         beneficiaries.

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  6         WHEREAS, prescription drugs have become an integral

  7  part of modern medicine with private health insurance

  8  companies incorporating adequate coverage for prescription

  9  drugs, and

10         WHEREAS, Medicare still does not provide coverage for

11  most drugs as part of its benefit package, and

12         WHEREAS, three out of every ten Medicare beneficiaries

13  have no insurance coverage for prescription drugs and those

14  with supplemental drug insurance face high premiums and

15  restricted coverage, and

16         WHEREAS, 26 states have already enacted state

17  pharmaceutical assistance programs to provide some drug

18  coverage to fill the void left by federal inaction, and

19         WHEREAS, President Bush has proposed the Immediate

20  Helping Hand initiative to provide funds to states for drug

21  coverage for Medicare beneficiaries who are least able to pay

22  for needed prescriptions, NOW, THEREFORE,

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

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26         That the Congress of the United States is urged to

27  provide prescription drug coverage for Medicare beneficiaries

28  either through enactment of legislation based on the Immediate

29  Helping Hand initiative or one of the several Congressional

30  proposals providing pharmaceutical financial assistance for

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    Florida Senate - 2001        (NP)                      SR 2386
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  1         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution,

  2  with the Seal of the Senate affixed, be transmitted to the

  3  President of the United States Senate, to the Speaker of the

  4  United States House of Representatives, to each member of the

  5  Florida Delegation to the United States Congress, and to the

  6  President of the United States.

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    Posey, Smith, Diaz de la Portilla, Pruitt, Garcia, Carlton,
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    Klein, Laurent, Silver, Meek, Rossin, Webster and Lawson
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