EXECUTIVE
ORDER EO 88-10
ESTABLISHING
THE GOVERNOR'S HEALTH POLICY GROUP
WHEREAS, Substitute House Bill
No. 2038, Chapter 107, Sections 4, 5 and 6, Laws of 1988, now RCW 41.05.030 and
41.05.021, directed the new Washington State Health Care Authority to perform a
number of reviews and report back to the Legislature no later than December 1,
1990, on items related to state health care purchasing and consolidation and
coordination of different state health care functions.
WHEREAS:
(1) The
primary duty of the Washington State Health Care Authority is to develop health
care benefit programs for state employees;
(2) Taking
the lead role in the state health care purchasing study would detract the
Washington State Health Care Authority from performing its primary duty;
(3) The
Washington State Health Care Authority should be an active participant in the
study;
(4) I
am supportive of the goals encompassed in the Legislation, and want to ensure
the review is accomplished with the fullest agency cooperation and participation;
(5) The
Office of Financial Management can best act as convener and coordinating agency
for this interagency review;
(6) I
am seeking Legislation to formalize this needed change;
NOW, THEREFORE,
I, Booth Gardner, Governor of the State of Washington, hereby create the
Governor's Health Policy Group which shall be composed of the following
representative departments: Department of Social and Health Services,
Department of Corrections, Department of Labor and Industries, Basic Health
Plan, Health Care Authority, Department of Licensing, Department of Veterans
Affairs, Office of Insurance Commissioner, and Hospital Commission, with the
Office of Financial Management acting as the convener and coordinating agency.
The purpose of this group is to develop and
coordinate Health Policy as it relates to state government. The complexity and
interaction of health policy make interagency coordination important if the
State is to meet its goals in the area of health. These goals include: (1)
appropriately controlled health care costs for beneficiaries of the state
programs; (2) access to appropriate health care for all citizens of the state;
(3) quality health care for the State's beneficiaries and (4) public health
services availability.
The immediate function of this group shall be to
facilitate performance of the reviews required by House Bill No. 2038 requiring
a focused and coordinated study of the state purchased health care programs and
regulatory agencies, with reports due back to the Legislature by December 1,
1989, and December 1, 1990.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto
set my hand and caused
the seal of the State
of Washington to be
affixed at Olympia
this 23rd day of
December A.D., Nineteen hundred and eighty-eight.
BOOTH GARDNER
Governor of Washington
BY THE GOVERNOR:
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Acting Deputy,
Secretary of State
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