Key
Senators Might Be Caving To Administration Demands For Medicaid Cuts
and
a Stacked Commission
April
26, 2005
BACKGROUND
& STATUS:
Word
is that key Republican Senators who supported the Smith-Bingaman
Amendment, which removed $15 billion in cuts to Medicaid from the Senate
Budget Resolution, might be backing down from their commitment. Senators
Gordon Smith (R-OR), Olympia Snowe (R-ME), Arlen Specter (R-PA) and Norm
Coleman (R-MN) are under tremendous pressure to accept the
Administration's demand for cuts to the Medicaid program and to support a
Medicaid Commission, with its members appointed by the Administration.
Cutting
Medicaid would be a devastating blow to our efforts to save program. A
commission with its members appointed only by the Administration would
most likely rubber-stamp the Administration's desire to cut Medicaid.
ACTION
TO BE TAKEN:
It
is important that you ACT NOW. Please call or email your Senator -
Specter - (202) 224-4254 Email
Smith - (202) 224-3753 Email
Snowe - (202) 224-5344 Email
Coleman - 202-224-5641 Email
and urge them to not cut Medicaid, and to support a truly bipartisan
Medicaid Commission.
Thank
you for your help. Legislative offices count every email, phone call and
fax, so you will make a difference!
To
find out who your Legislator is go to Legislative Action Center
President
and CEO, Achieva
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