S-0318.1
SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL 8002
State of Washington
69th Legislature
2025 Regular Session
By Senators Hasegawa, Chapman, Stanford, Trudeau, and Valdez
Prefiled 12/23/24. Read first time 01/13/25. Referred to Committee on Health & Long-Term Care.
TO THE HONORABLE DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, AND TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE AND THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, AND TO THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES, IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED, AND TO THE SECRETARY OF THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES:
We, your Memorialists, the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Washington, in legislative session assembled, respectfully represent and petition as follows:
WHEREAS, Original Medicare was created in 1965 as a public good to provide a national health care system for seniors and the disabled in the United States and has proven to be our most efficient and effective public health care program with administrative costs accounting for only two to three percent of Medicare spending; and
WHEREAS, Since the federal government has created various for-profit privatized health care programs within Medicare including Part D which covers prescription drugs, Medigap which are supplemental plans to cover Medicare Part B's 20 percent copays, and Medicare Advantage which is permitted to take up to 15 percent of every Medicare dollar for administration and profits for managing Medicare claims; and