75th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2009 Regular Session
 
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 LC 3730
 
                     House Joint Memorial 20
 
Sponsored by Representatives BARTON, DEMBROW
 
 
                             SUMMARY
 
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.
 
  Urges Congress to enact legislation concerning Medicare
reimbursement rates.
 
                         JOINT MEMORIAL
To the President of the United States and the Senate and the
  House of Representatives of the United States of America, in
  Congress assembled:
  We, your memorialists, the Seventy-fifth Legislative Assembly
of the State of Oregon, in legislative session assembled,
respectfully represent as follows:
  Whereas current Medicare reimbursements fail to adequately
remunerate physicians; and
  Whereas Oregon, due to its effective delivery of health
services, has lower reimbursement rates than most other states;
and
  Whereas the insufficiency of Medicare reimbursements has
doubled the number of primary care providers no longer accepting
new Medicare patients in Oregon; and
  Whereas over 500,000 Oregon seniors are currently enrolled in
Medicare; now, therefore,
Be It Resolved by the Legislative Assembly of the State of
  Oregon:
  (1) That the Seventy-fifth Legislative Assembly urges the
Congress of the United States to enact legislation that increases
physicians' Medicare reimbursement rates and lessens
reimbursement rate variation among the states.
  (2) A copy of this memorial shall be sent to the President of
the United States, to the Senate Majority Leader, to the Speaker
of the House of Representatives and to each member of the Oregon
Congressional Delegation.
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