ADVOCACY UPDATE: Action Alert!
NEED ACTION FROM..... Hospital leaders, staff and others
ACTION.......................... Ask your legislators to oppose White House cuts to your hospital
WHEN............................. Immediately
HELP Oppose dramatic hospital Cuts
Urge your legislators to reject proposed cuts to hospitals
President Obama last weekend called for nearly a quarter of a trillion dollars in additional cuts from Medicare and Medicaid payments to hospitals to help finance health care reform. The proposal includes $110 billion in cuts to provider updates, the bulk of which come from hospitals, in the form of an annual "productivity adjustment" (i.e., cuts to hospitals’ market basket updates), as well as a 75% reduction in funding for the Medicare and Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) programs – a cut of $106 billion over 10 years. To view the AHA’s statement on the proposed cuts, click here.
Earlier this week the AHA sent to its member hospital CEOs details on how the cuts would impact their individual hospitals, and urged them to contact their legislators in opposition to the cuts. Please make your voice heard as well!
Cutting hospital payments is not reform: Urge your senators and representative to reject these cuts! Please contact your legislators immediately … and urge your colleagues to do likewise!
(E-mail AHAadvocacy@aha.org to let us know how your Hill contacts go … thanks!)
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