Please Help Restore State Medicaid Relief - It could be you or a loved one who needs help next!

http://www.capwiz.com/nmss/callalert/index.tt?alertid=15108271&type=CO

Call your U.S. Senators today and urge them to immediately restore and pass the six-month extension of the increased federal Medicaid assistance. Use the toll-free number 1-888-340-6521 to be connected with your U.S. Senators. When you are connected with your Senator's office, tell the office:

•As your constituent, I urge the Senator to restore and pass a six-month extension of the increased federal Medicaid assistance.

•Medicaid provides health benefits to those hardest hit by the recession. As unemployment rises in the troubled economic times, Medicaid enrollment rises at the same time as state budgets are extremely strained.

•Medicaid fiscal relief included in the Recovery Act prevented harmful budget cuts, saved jobs and protected healthcare coverage of many in need.

•Medicaid assistance to states must continue. Restoring Medicaid funding for states is good for the Medicaid program, the health of state budgets, and the national deficit.

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One of my son's has Progressive MS and he has to travel 100 miles to get to a Neurologist that will take his Medicaid Insurance in Florida. Because it was an "option" Ohio just turned down the proposed health care overhall offered by the President Obama Health Care Bill:

Ohio unlikely to extend Medicaid program this year

http://www.wfmj.com/Global/story.asp?S=12514787

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) _ Ohio's Medicaid director says the state is unlikely to expand health care coverage through the program this year, an option given to states under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.

Director Tracy Plouck tells The Associated Press that a tight state budget makes it difficult to expand the program now, even with the help of partial federal funding.

Many financially struggling states share the same concerns, and it's unclear which ones may jump at the chance to fill coverage gaps ahead of 2014, when most of the health care provisions kick in.

The law requires states to extend Medicaid eligibility in 2014, with the federal government picking up 100 percent of the cost for three years.

After that, federal support gradually declines through 2020.

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Our Federal Senator's need to relook this "option" choice. You never know when it will be you or your loved one that gets chronically ill! I proposed for many years now through e-mails and letters and on line blogs that we have these chronically ill patients go to University run Medical Centers like Ohio State and have them triaged into local specialists. I wish someone would have listened to my proposal but so far I have had no response. This is very sad that we are leaving the "least" of us to suffer in this country while the banks get "bailed" out! Shame on our leaders!
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The State of Washington denied my adult daughter medical care because her income $725.00 a month was $3.00 over their limit. She died 6 months later of a condition that could have been avoided by proper medical care. I wonder if killing the poor is on the adgenda.

Medicaid is very poorly run and their are very few Dr's and specialist that will take it in Florida. I called the MS Society when my son first became ill and they told me to tell him to move out of the state like their daughter had to when she was diagnosed with it to another state that offered better care. The one saving grace for him was a State Run University Medical Center. They gave him the meds that kept him alive!

It is pitiful for a chronically ill person to have to fight for their very lives and their families are right there with them. My son is loosing his brain function, his kidneys, his ability to walk and talk. I hope you can see that this country's chronically ill are in the same boat. It is still a very hard mountain to climb and now it is even more so with States turning down help offered from the Federal Government!

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