HomeMy WebLinkAbout89-069,w..~~~`~`''';BOARD OF SUP`EI~VISORS
GQUNTY, - ~F' BUTTE,_ST.ATE DF, CALIFORNIA
Resolution. No. s9-os9
BUTTE COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVTSORS
RESOLUTION EXPRESSING CONCERN ABOUT MISP CUTS
PROPOSED TN THE STATE BUDCsET
WHEREAS, the Governor's 1989-90 State budget proposes
severe cuts in health care funds, specifically the reduction of
$359 million from the Medically Tndigent Services Program (MISP),
to the counties; and
WHEREAS, public and private hospitals are finding it
increasingly difficult to provide health care to indigent and
uninsured (unsponsored) persons; and
WHEREAS, counties, whether they contract for indigent
health care services or operate county hospitals, provide nearly
70 percent of the total amount of uncompensated care in California;
and
WHEREAS, the original MISP program was established as a
result of the State passing to the counties the responsibility for
the medically indigent adult, formerly a component of the State
Medi-Cal program; and
WHEREAS, the MISP transfer was accomplished over county
objections with approximately 70 percent of the funding that the
State had been spending in the same area and since then there has
been a gradual erosion of the program costs, virtually no cost-nf-
living adjustments, and disregard for the rising costs of provision
of medical care for the indigent; and
WHEREAS, caunties have attempted to respond to increasing
health care access barriers by absorbing an increasing share of the
unsponsored into their facilities yet, capacity limits and ever
tighter resource limits are exhausting counties' ability to fill
the increasing access needs of the unsponsored population; and
WHEREAS, any reduction in the Medically Tndigent Services
Program will mean reductions in critical local services and an
acceleration of the fiscal crisis facing counties.
NOW, THE22EFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of
Supervisors opposes any reduction in State General Fund dollars
from the Medically Indigent Services Program; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVER that the Board of Supervisors
authorizes the Chair of the Board to sign this Resolution nn their
behalf.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of Supervisors of the
County of Butte, State of California this 16th day of May, 1989
by the following vote:
AYES: Supervisors Dolan, McInturf, McLaughlin, Vercruse and
Chairman Fulton
NOES: None
ABSENT : None
NOT VOTING: None
LEN ULTON, C airman
But a County Board of Supervisors
ATTEST:
William Ii. Randolph
Clerk of the Board of Supervisors
By C_..
Deputy