[NYAPRS Enews] Bazelon Alert: Urge Your Rep. to Support Medicaid Regs Delay

[Harvey Rosenthal]

URGENT ACTION ALERT

 

Vote Imminent on Bill to Delay Harmful Medicaid Rules

Ask Your Representative to Support H.R. 5613

 

Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law Alert   

April 21, 2008

 

April 21, 2008-Last week, the House Energy and Commerce Committee
approved  46-0 legislation to delay until April 9, 2009 implementation
of seven cost-cutting Medicaid regulations issued by the Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services. 

 

The Protecting the Medicaid Safety Net Act of 2008 (H.R. 5613),
sponsored by House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman John Dingell
(D-MI) and Representative Timothy Murphy (R-PA), would place a
moratorium on rules that would severely affect access by vulnerable
beneficiaries to needed Medicaid services, including those provided
through Medicaid's rehabilitation option, case management option and
school-based  administration and transportation services. The bill is
set to be considered on the House floor on Tuesday or Wednesday, April
22nd or 23rd.

 

H.R. 5613 is supported by a diverse range of stakeholders, including
organizations representing people with disabilities, children and
families, hospitals, providers and state Medicaid directors. Despite
bipartisan, unanimous support from the committee of jurisdiction, it has
drawn a veto threat by the President.

 

Please Act Now!

Implementation of the Administration's damaging rules must be stopped!
Contact your Representative today to urge support of the bipartisan
Protecting the Medicaid Safety Net Act of 2008, H.R. 5613, imposing a
moratorium on all seven harmful Medicaid regulations.

 

Please check to see If your Representative has already cosponsored the
bill or is a Member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, if so,
thank them for their support (for list of committee members,
http://energycommerce.house.gov/membios/110fullmship.shtml; to find
sponsors,

go to http://thomas.loc.gov, search by bill number H.R. 5613, go to Bill
Summary, then click on Cosponsors).

 

The following members particularly need outreach. If you are a
constituent of one of them, please contact him or her to urge support
for H.R. 5613.

*       Spencer Bachus (R-AL);

*       Jo Bonner (R-AL);

*       Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV);

*       Vernon Ehlers (R-MI);

*       Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ);

*       Wayne Gilchrest (R-MD);

*       Ric Keller (R-FL);

*       Mark Steven Kirk (F-IL);

*       Ray LaHood (R-IL);

*       John Mica (R-FL);

*       Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL);

*       Jim Saxton (R-NJ);

*       Jean Schmidt (R-OH);

*       Chris Smith (R-NJ);

*       Lamar Smith (R-TX);

*       Zach Wamp (R-TN);

*       Joe Wilson (R-SC);

*       Frank Wolf (R-VA)

 

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