Advocacy Update: Medicaid Improvements in Health Reform
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National Alliance to End Homelessness
Advocacy Update | January 6, 2010
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Organizational Sign-on Letter:
Medicaid Improvements in Health Reform
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The National Alliance to End Homelessness and National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare are circulating an organizational sign-on letter urging House and Senate leadership to consider two critical Medicaid provisions in health care reform.
National, state, and local organizations are encouraged to sign-on to this letter, by September 4.
The letter calls on Congress to give people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness better access to Medicaid. Specifically, Congress must include provisions to ensure that:
1. All people living below the federal poverty level are eligible for Medicaid, and that
2. Community service providers are able to receive Medicaid reimbursements for coordinated health services including primary health care and mental heath and addiction treatment services.
TO SIGN THE LETTER, click here to submit your organization's name as you would like it to appear on the letter.
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Timing
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The best time to impact a health care reform bill is from now until mid-September.
Three committees in the House (Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, and Education and Labor) are hashing out the details of a health care reform bill. Over recess, these committees are working to come to an agreement on a final proposal, which they hope the full House will vote on by the third week in September. In the Senate, the Finance committee is expected to vote on their version of a bill sometime after September 15. This legislation must be reconciled with the Senate Health, Education, and Labor Committee's proposal and then considered by the full Senate. Before a final bill can pass, House and Senate differences in the health reform bill must be reconciled in a conference committee.
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TOOLKIT
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BUILDING
POLITICAL WILL
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The Alliance works collaboratively with its local, state, and national partners to advance policies and programs that prevent and end homelessness.
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| CONTACT US |
Sarah Kahn
Director of Field Mobilization
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