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Contact Congress and Ask Them To Expand and Fund Medicaid

To: The U.S. Senate and The U.S. House

Started by: NYC Weboy

As healthcare reform reaches a critical phase, it's important that we not lose sght of a key piece of any reform - making sure people in poverty have better coverage and better access to care. While the two initial House bills made important moves to transform Medicaid from block grants to the states into being federally administered with better reimbursement rates for doctors... that plan is now up in the air. And with few advocates for the poor, Medicaid can easily become the bargaining chip to make other, less substantive changes over really fixing the safety net for our poorest and most vulnerable.

Learn more here:

http://uspoverty.change.org/blog/view/ask_congress_about_medicaid

http://uspoverty.change.org/blog/view/the_repair_work_at_the_bottom_of_the_net

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Healthcare Reform Needs Medicaid Reform

Dear Senator/Representative,

As you resume work on the important and necessary process of reforming healthcare, please do not sacrifice reforming Medicaid to achieve other reforms. Making sure healthcare is available to our poorest and neediest citizens is crucial to any real reform of our healthcare system. Access to insurance coverage, and access to a doctor who will be reimbursed at a reasonable rate is essential to reducing overcrowded emergency rooms and expensive care that could be prevented sooner and better, at less cost. Our current system of block grants to the states, and alarmingly low reimbursement rates make it impossible to guarantee basic, necessary and affordable care that we should all be able to have. I urge you to make sure that reforming Medicaid remains a key priority of any healthcare reform. And as your constituent, I want you to know that failing to reform Medicaid will matter to me when I make my voting choices in the coming elections.

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