Contact Your Congressman and Tell Them to Save Medicaid
Congress is considering cutting $880 BILLION to Medicaid. This could mean cuts in programming, health services, and the loss of jobs in healthcare and support services.
What Are We Doing as an Organization?
On Thursday, CCANY CEO Nick Cappoletti was at the 37th annual Bronx Family Support Conference, speaking about how Medicaid cuts affect our members.
“We need to fight to make sure that the people we support have the right to good healthcare. We can’t have people caught in a system that’s not responsive.”
What Can I Do?
Contact your local U.S. Senator and ask them to protect Medicaid!
What is on the Line?
Policies included in proposed Medicaid cuts include:
- Mandatory work requirements – connects eligibility for Medicaid to employment or community engagement with very limited exceptions.
- The work requirements are incredibly stringent. They shut the front door to coverage for people if they don’t meet requirements.
- States can look back for years on work, education and community engagement, really going after Medicaid expansion.
- Requires more frequent (every 6 months) eligibility verification for all Medicaid beneficiaries. Creates a national “disenrollment” system. Requires states to conduct eligibility sweeps. States could be required to check every month. This will have huge implications for states as they will need to build the administrative systems and have massive data implications, when Medicaid data has been difficult to get.
- Limits the use of provider taxes, limiting state’s ability to pay for their share of Medicaid. Puts caps on provider taxes.
- Penalizing states who are providing coverage to people of all immigration statuses, reduces the Medicaid expansion FMAP to 80% for states that cover those who are not yet citizens.
- Eliminates the incentive for the remaining states that have not expanded Medicaid (all red states).
- Requires states to create cost sharing for enrollees that make more than the Federal Poverty Level (FPL), a first for Medicaid.
- Blocks Medicaid funding for gender care and for groups that provide reproductive care.
- Eliminates flexibilities states currently have under Section 1115, on budget neutrality.
- Eliminates the nursing home staffing rule. The one that required people to get seen… once a day and requiring a nurse on staff.
- Eliminates rules to streamline eligibility.