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ACTION ALERT!	Jaime D'Errico
	Jan 28, 2004 11:37 PST

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Help to Protect Dirigo Health &
Restore Services Cut from MaineCare!

The Issue in Brief:

Tomorrow (1/29/04), the Maine Legislature will begin the debate and vote
on the "Majority Budget" vs. the "Minority Budget." We urge you to help
SUPPORT the Majority Budget and OPPOSE the Minority Budget. Here is what
the decision could mean for Maine people:

1. The Majority Budget restores services cut from MaineCare and
preserves Dirigo Health;

2. The Minority Budget cuts Dirigo Health funding and delays
critical MaineCare expansions.

How You Can Help:

Call or email your Legislators TODAY (1/28/04), and ask them to SUPPORT
the Majority Budget!

1. To leave a voicemail message for Senators and Representatives:

a. To leave a message for Senators call: 1-800-423-6900;

b. To leave a message for Representatives call: 1-800-423-2900;

c. Forgot your town's Senator or Representative? Click on,
http://www.maine.gov/portal/government/legislature.html#legislators ;

d. Sample message: "Hello, my name is ______ and I live in the town
of ______. This message is for Senator/Representative _______. Please
SUPPORT the MAJORITY Budget. Protect Dirigo Health and restore needed
services to MaineCare. Thank you."

2. To email Senators and Representatives:

a. To find your town's Senator or Representative and to find their
email address, click on,
http://www.maine.gov/portal/government/legislature.html#legislators ;

b. Sample message: "Hello, my name is ______ and I live in the town
of ______. This message is for Senator/Representative _______. Please
SUPPORT the MAJORITY Budget. Protect Dirigo Health and restore needed
services to MaineCare. Thank you."

More Details:
The MAJORITY Budget:

1. Does not raid the money set aside for the Dirigo Health Program
and MaineCare expansions;

2. Does not increase co- payments in the Drugs for the Elderly
Program;

3. Does not eliminate elective surgeries, like gastric bypass in
MaineCare;

4. Does not put an annual limit on therapies in MaineCare;

5. Does not have a transportation co-payments in MaineCare;

6. Restores a substantial portion of the cuts to the mental health
community; and

* These MaineCare services are restored largely by getting more
federal Medicaid dollars by making a very small assessment on hospitals,
most of which they will get back.

The MINORITY Budget:

1. Raids nearly 40% of Dirigo Health's start up funding ($20
million) and delays - for over a year - the expansions in MaineCare that
are part of Dirigo Health;

2. While it does restore many of the same MaineCare cuts as the
Majority Budget, it does this by taking the dollars that would be used
to provide health care for other needy people under the Dirigo Health
Program.

Thank you for your help!
And "thank you," to the Maine Equal Justice Project, a member of
Consumers for Affordable Health Care Coalition, for providing much of
the information used in the creation of this Action Alert.

Jaime D'Errico
Communications & Outreach Coordinator
Consumers for Affordable Health Care Foundation
P.O. Box 2490

Augusta, ME 04338-2490

Ph: 207.622.7083 Fx: 207.622.7077
Advocating the right to health care for every man, woman and child



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Help to Protect Dirigo Health & 
Restore Services Cut from MaineCare!

 

The Issue in Brief:

Tomorrow (1/29/04),
the Maine Legislature will begin the debate and vote on the “Majority Budget”
vs. the “Minority Budget.” We urge you to help SUPPORT the Majority
Budget and OPPOSE the Minority Budget. Here is what the decision could mean for
Maine
people:

1.
The Majority Budget restores services cut from MaineCare
and preserves Dirigo Health; 

2.
The Minority Budget cuts Dirigo Health funding and
delays critical MaineCare expansions.

 

How You Can Help:

Call or email your
Legislators TODAY (1/28/04),
and ask them to SUPPORT the Majority Budget! 
 


1.
To leave a voicemail message for Senators and
Representatives:

a. To leave a message for Senators
call: 1-800-423-6900; 

b. To
leave a message for Representatives call: 1-800-423-2900;

c. Forgot your town’s Senator or
Representative? Click on, <a
href="http://www.maine.gov/portal/government/legislature.html#legislators">http://www.maine.gov/portal/government/legislature.html#legislators</a>
; 

d. Sample
message: “Hello, my name is ______ and
I live in the town of ______. This message is for Senator/Representative
_______. Please SUPPORT the MAJORITY Budget. Protect Dirigo Health
and restore needed services to MaineCare. Thank you.” 
 


2.
To
email Senators and Representatives:

a. To find your town’s Senator or
Representative and to find their email address, click on, <a
href="http://www.maine.gov/portal/government/legislature.html#legislators">http://www.maine.gov/portal/government/legislature.html#legislators</a>
;

b. Sample
message: “Hello, my name is ______ and
I live in the town of ______. This message is for Senator/Representative
_______. Please SUPPORT the MAJORITY Budget. Protect Dirigo Health
and restore needed services to MaineCare. Thank you.”

 

More Details: 
The MAJORITY Budget: 

1.
Does not raid the money set aside for the Dirigo
Health Program and MaineCare expansions;

2.
Does not increase co- payments in the Drugs for
the Elderly Program;

3.
Does not eliminate elective surgeries, like
gastric bypass in MaineCare;

4.
Does not put an annual limit on therapies in
MaineCare;

5.
Does not have a transportation co-payments in
MaineCare; 

6.
Restores
a substantial portion of the cuts to the mental health community; and

§
These MaineCare services
are restored largely by getting more federal Medicaid dollars by making a very
small assessment on hospitals, most of which they will get back. 

 

The MINORITY Budget:

1.
Raids nearly 40% of
Dirigo Health's start up funding ($20 million) and delays - for over a year - the
expansions in MaineCare that are part of Dirigo Health; 

2.
While it does restore
many of the same MaineCare cuts as the Majority Budget, it does this by taking the dollars that would be used to provide
health care for other needy people under the Dirigo Health Program. 

 

Thank you for your help! 
And “thank
you,” to the Maine Equal Justice Project, a member of Consumers for
Affordable Health Care Coalition, for providing much of the information used in
the creation of this Action Alert.

 

Jaime D’Errico 
Communications & Outreach Coordinator 
Consumers for Affordable Health Care Foundation 
P.O. Box 2490

Augusta, ME 04338-2490

Ph: 207.622.7083
Fx: 207.622.7077 
Advocating the right to health care for
every man, woman and child

 

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