Protect Medicaid from harmful cuts and red tape!

A recently-passed House bill would cut funding to Medicaid and create new barriers to coverage and care for millions of people including many who live with serious health conditions such as bleeding disorders.

So-called Medicaid work requirements would add new administrative hurdles and extra complexity to the Medicaid program, resulting in widespread coverage losses and harm to vulnerable patients. People who live with bleeding disorders and other serious health conditions cannot afford sudden gaps in their care.

Recent experiments with Medicaid “work and reporting” requirements (Arkansas 2018) led to drastic coverage losses and yet failed to boost employment.

In fact, over 90% of Medicaid enrollees nationally already work, go to school, engage in caregiving, or would qualify for an exemption from the House-passed requirements due to age, illness, or disability. Yet they would be at serious risk of losing coverage under the new paperwork requirements. With the post-PHE Medicaid “unwinding” underway, now is a particularly bad time to layer on additional red tape and bureaucracy.

We should not add new administrative hurdles and extra complexity to a program that’s already hard to navigate!

Please raise your voice to #ProtectMedicaid from cuts and counterproductive red tape.

Protect Medicaid from cuts and red tape that would strip coverage from people with serious health conditions!

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As your constituent and someone who advocates for people with bleeding disorders, I’m writing today to ask you that you protect access to quality healthcare for Medicaid enrollees, without additional barriers or cuts.

Hemophilia and other bleeding disorders are rare genetic conditions that impair proper blood clotting. People living with these conditions depend on expert care and prescription drugs to treat or avoid painful and dangerous bleeding episodes. Our health needs mean we must have quality, affordable health coverage.

The House has proposed to cut funding to Medicaid and create new barriers to coverage and care for millions of people, including many who live with serious health conditions such as bleeding disorders.

We should not add new administrative hurdles and extra complexity to a program that’s already hard to navigate! Recent experiments with Medicaid “work and reporting” requirements (Arkansas 2018) led to drastic coverage losses and yet failed to boost employment.

As negotiations continue, I urge you to reject adding a so-called “work requirement” policy to the Medicaid program, recognizing this policy is aimed at cutting and further restricting access to quality and affordable healthcare for millions of patients.  According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, 91% of individuals in the Medicaid expansion group are either workers, caregivers, students, or unable to work due to illness.

Please make sure lifesaving access to Medicaid without barriers is protected and oppose Medicaid work requirements.

Thank you for your consideration. I would be happy to speak with someone from your office to share how these issues affect me and my family. I appreciate your time and your interest in policies that protect Americans who live with serious health conditions such as bleeding disorders.

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