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CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED <br />RESOLUTION NO. 2001-69 <br />BY: THE ENTIRE COUNCIL AND THE MAYOR <br />A RESOLUTION SUPPORTING THE CLEVELAND <br />AFIrCIO FEDERATION OF LABOR AND A.F.S.C.M.E. <br />OffiO COUNCIL 8'S CALL FOR A NON-PROFIT NATIONAL <br />HEALTH CARE INSURANCE PLAN WHICH IS PUBLICLY <br />FINANCED AND GUARANTEES COMPREHENSIVE AND <br />LIFETIME COVERAGE FOR ALL AND DECLARING AN <br />EMERGENCY. <br />WHEREAS, over 43 million people in our country (approximately 100,000 in <br />Cuyahoga County), including 10 million children, have no health care insurance; and <br />WHEREAS, more than 100,000 people lose their health insurance every month; <br />and <br />WHEREAS, tens of millions more people have impaired access to health care <br />because of inadequate coverage, prohibitively high out-of-pocket costs, services not <br />covered by insurance plans, and limits on lifetime spending; and <br />WHEREAS, for the great majority of people, health care is tied to employment <br />and workers face an uncertain future as layoffs mount and insurance premium costs rise <br />sharply; and <br />WHEREAS, employment in the United States has increasingly gone from full- <br />time to part-time work with no health care benefits, which affects a large number of <br />single mothers and lower income workers; and <br />WHEREAS, health care should be a right available to all, not a commodity <br />accorded to some; and <br />WHEREAS, more than 50 million of uninsured and underinsured Americans <br />would be bankrupted if they had the misfortune of being hit with a catastrophic illness; <br />and <br />WHEREAS, other industrialized nations which provide comprehensive health <br />care to everyone spend 6 to 10% of their Grross Domestic Product, a much lower cost <br />than the 14% that is spent by the U. S. system which leaves so many uninsured; and