State of South Dakota

EIGHTY-SEVENTH SESSION
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY, 2012

256T0802

HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 1017

Introduced by: Representatives Hubbel, Bolin, Brunner, Cronin, Deelstra, Greenfield, Haggar, Hansen (Jon), Hickey, Hoffman, Jensen, Kirkeby, Kopp, Liss, Miller, Nelson (Stace), Olson (Betty), Russell, Schaefer, Steele, Stricherz, Tornow, Tulson, Venner, Verchio, and Wick and Senators Lederman and Holien

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION, Expressing opposition to a state run health care system that is established or operated contrary to the interests of the people of South Dakota.

WHEREAS, the people of South Dakota do not want individual or employer insurance mandates imposed on them by the state and costs of a state run health system have multiplied and led states to ask for bailout assistance from the federal government; and

WHEREAS, the people of South Dakota insist on access to a wide variety of public and private health insurance companies and plans and are opposed to a health care exchange that allows only a small number of non-profit health insurance companies; and

WHEREAS, the people of South Dakota want to remain free to see any doctor they choose and want their doctors to be free to prescribe the most appropriate treatments within contracts with the state or insurance carriers; and

WHEREAS, the people of South Dakota want to retain control of their personal data and keep it out of state run data systems where information can be accessed or transferred to private and government agencies without express permission from the individual before each transfer:

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the House of Representatives of the Eighty-seventh Legislature of the State of South Dakota, the Senate concurring therein, the Legislature expresses opposition to a state run health care system that is established or operated contrary to these and other interests of the people of South Dakota.