HB-6006, As Passed House, December 7, 2006

SUBSTITUTE FOR

HOUSE BILL NO. 6006

     A bill to create a task force to study adequate health care;

and to provide for a report.

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

     Sec. 1. (1) There is created a task force to study adequate

health care. The task force shall consist of 9 voting members

appointed as follows:

     (a) One member appointed by the governor.

     (b) Two members appointed by the senate majority leader.

     (c) Two members appointed by the senate minority leader.

     (d) Two members appointed by the speaker of the house of

representatives.

     (e) Two members appointed by the minority leader of the house

of representatives.

     (2) The task force shall have a chairperson and vice-

chairperson who shall be elected by the voting members at the first

meeting of the task force.

     (3) The director of the department of community health or his

or her designee, the director of the office of services to the

aging or his or her designee, the director of the department of

human services or his or her designee, and the commissioner of the

office of financial and insurance services or his or her designee

shall represent their respective departments and offices and shall

be invited to attend task force meetings, but shall not be members

of the task force. The members of the task force shall be appointed

by February 1, 2007. The departments and offices of state

government represented on the task force shall work cooperatively

to provide administrative support for the task force, with the

department of community health acting as the primary agency in

providing that administrative support.

     Sec. 3. By no later than March 1, 2008, the task force shall

submit a report to the legislature and the governor that makes

recommendations for a health care access plan or plans that would

provide access to a full range of preventive, acute, and long-term

health care services to residents of this state, including all of

the following:

     (a) An integrated system or systems of health care delivery.

     (b) Incentives to be used to contain costs.

     (c) Core benefits that would be provided under each type of

plan.

     (d) Reimbursement mechanisms for health care providers.

     (e) Administrative efficiencies.

     (f) Mechanisms for generating spending priorities based on

multidisciplinary standards of care established by verifiable

replicated research studies demonstrating quality and cost-

effectiveness of interventions, providers, and facilities.

     (g) Methods for reducing the cost of prescription drugs both

as part of, and as separate from, the health care access plan.

     (h) Appropriate reallocation of existing health care

resources.

     (i) Equitable financing of each proposal.

     (j) Recommendations concerning the delivery of, and financing

for, long-term care services.