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SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 795

	WHEREAS, The Texas Institute for Health Policy Research 
was established in 1964 to focus on policy research and to study 
and evaluate the emerging health care environments; it is a 
statewide, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization serving as an 
honest broker catalyst for improvement in the health of Texans 
through education in health policy options and grassroots 
community-based solutions; and
	WHEREAS, The development of a shared vision of health and 
health care delivery for the State of Texas is important to 
improving the state's quality of health care; and
	WHEREAS, The Texas Institute for Health Policy Research 
will establish a forum for dialogue among the leaders of Texas' 
health care providers, payers, and consumers for informed 
decision-making as part of its Shared Vision Project for Health 
Care; and
	WHEREAS, There is no public model for delivery of health 
care services or a vision for what a model should be in Texas; and
	WHEREAS, All stakeholders are dissatisfied, to varying 
degrees, with the current "system" of health care delivery; and
	WHEREAS, To forge a new and shared vision, each stakeholder 
must be prepared to accommodate changes to achieve a common good; 
and
	WHEREAS, The Texas Institute for Health Policy Research 
has recruited a unique advisory panel of stakeholders from 
diverse backgrounds to provide leadership in the development of 
Texas' first shared vision for health care; and
	WHEREAS, The advisory panel is comprised of community 
leaders, health care providers, health care suppliers, and 
consumers and of representatives from the fields of banking and 
finance, insurance, public health, government, academia, and 
business; and
	WHEREAS, This advisory panel represents the only statewide 
effort to bring all stakeholders together to provide leadership 
in developing innovative products and ideas to improve the 
state's quality of health care; and
	WHEREAS, The Shared Vision Project for Health Care 
provides a nonpartisan policy development resource for advocacy 
organizations and policy decision-makers in Texas; the Texas 
Institute for Health Policy Research will maintain an honest 
broker role in serving as the catalyst for collaboration between 
and among the varied stakeholders; and
	WHEREAS, Strong support and encouragement for the Shared 
Vision Project for Health Care have come from Ashley Smith, a 
member of the Executive Committee of the Texas Hospital 
Association Board, and from the Texas Health Care Council; now, 
therefore, be it
	RESOLVED, That the Senate of the State of Texas,
78th Legislature, hereby congratulate and commend the leadership 
of the advisory panel members and the Texas Institute for Health 
Policy Research and welcome them in their endeavors to provide 
input, recommendations, innovations, ideas, and solutions 


regarding problems and issues that arise in the development of 
health care policy in Texas, via their Shared Vision Project for 
Health Care; and, be it further
	RESOLVED, That the participants of the Shared Vision 
Project be encouraged to provide written and oral public 
testimony regarding legislative health care policy and to 
contribute input to appropriate state boards, state agencies, 
and state institutions that are establishing and implementing 
health care policy in the State of Texas; and, be it further
	RESOLVED, That a copy of this Resolution be prepared for 
the Texas Institute for Health Policy Research as an expression 
of high regard from the Texas Senate.

                                     Nelson             
                                                          
Armbrister          Fraser              Ratliff            
Averitt             Gallegos            Shapiro            
Barrientos          Harris              Shapleigh          
Bivins              Hinojosa            Staples            
Brimer              Jackson             Van de Putte       
Carona              Janek               Wentworth          
Deuell              Lindsay             West               
Duncan              Lucio               Whitmire           
Ellis               Madla               Williams           
Estes               Ogden               Zaffirini          




Dewhurst, President of the Senate




________________________________ 
    President of the Senate
 
    I hereby certify that the 
above Resolution was adopted by 
the Senate on May 13, 2003.



________________________________ 
    Secretary of the Senate



________________________________ 
     Member, Texas Senate