December 9, 2004

Please help in the federal Medicaid fight -- Contact your Senators

We need your help right away to prevent a major setback on the road to providing decent health care for everyone. Many in Washington have set their sights on the Medicaid program as a slush fund to pay for making tax cuts permanent, among other things. We need to stop this effort in its tracks, and we need your help now.

The federal fight over Medicaid is really a fight over two things—money and priorities. That’s why the battle over next year’s federal budget is so critical to those who think everyone should have the health care they need and deserve. The budget will determine who gets what they need and who gets shut out—which programs get adequate funding and which get cut. Unfortunately, we already know that Medicaid will be on the chopping block. We need anyone who cares about fair access to health care to do everything they can to preserve Medicaid as a guarantee of health care to those who have nowhere else to turn.

We urge you to contact your Senators before the end of the year. The message: Medicaid must be preserved—capping and cutting federal Medicaid funding would be devastating to state economies and to those who depend on Medicaid for their health care lifeline, including children, people with disabilities, and workers who can't get health coverage through their jobs. To find out how to contact your Senators, click here. If you'd also like to contact your Representative or Governor, click here.

If your Senator agrees with you and has already signed a Senate letter to the President, please be sure to thank him or her!

For more information on the brewing Medicaid battle, visit our Medicaid Action Center. Be sure to check back often, as we'll be updating the site frequently.

HELP US SPREAD THE WORD: We need to enlist as many people as possible to help us with the upcoming battle, so please forward this message to a friend or colleague by clicking here.