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BREAKING NEWS:
MDCH Budget Conference Committee Considering A 12 PERCENT Medicaid Cut
On Friday afternoon, the MHA learned that the Legislature may be considering an additional 4 percent across-the-board cut to health care services to reach a newly developed budget target of $2.23 billion for
the MDCH.
Gov. Granholm, Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop (R-Rochester) and Speaker of the House Andy Dillon (D-Redford) have not yet reached a solution to the state's $2.8 billion fiscal crisis. The anticipated MDCH general fund budget reduction target was $568 million less than the governor's original executive budget recommendation and would have likely resulted in acceptance of a Senate-passed proposal that cuts all Medicaid providers by 8 percent.
If the proposed cuts were to be increased to a 12 percent cut, Michigan hospitals would witness $203 million in lost hospital funding ($54 million in general fund and $149 million in federal matching dollars).
IMMEDIATE ACTION NEEDED BY TUESDAY!
In an effort to avoid a government shutdown, the MDCH conference committee may pass a revised budget reduction bill as soon as tomorrow (Tuesday) so immediate action is required.
Please IMMEDIATELY contact...
- Rep. Gary McDowell (517) 373-2629 or (888) REP-GARY (737-4279)
- Rep. Richard Hammel (517) 373-7557 or (888) 347-8048
- Rep. Kevin Green (517) 373-2277 or (866) KEVIN-77 (538-4677)
- Sen. Roger Kahn (517) 373-1760 or (866) 305-2132
- Sen. John Pappageorge (517) 373-2523
- Sen. Deb Cherry (517) 373-1636 or (866) 305-2126
- Speaker of the House Andy Dillon: (517) 373-0857 or 888-REP-Dillon (737-3455)
- Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop (517) 373-2417
and...
- Urge rejection of a conference committee report that contains any Medicaid cuts
- Urge resolution of the state’s budget crisis — with an infusion of new federal stimulus dollars, NOT through continued MASSIVE CUTS — to protect health care services for all residents.
The MHA realizes you have been asked to contact your state legislators repeatedly over the past several weeks; however, we have now reached a critical juncture for final decision-making on the fiscal year 2010 Medicaid budget.
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Please immediately call members of the MDCH
Budget Conference Committee, Reps. Gary McDowell, Richard Hammel
and Kevin Green, Sens. Roger Kahn, John Pappageorge
and Deb Cherry and Speaker Dillon and Majority Leader Bishop, by tomorrow (Tuesday). |
The voices of the health care community must rise above the noise of other advocacy groups in Lansing; doing so requires the support of you, your staff and other hospital activists.
The goal is to have more than 200 calls placed to these offices by
noon Tuesday.
Hospitals must not waiver in their commitment to protect health care funding, and we must not allow our elected officials to balance the state’s budget problems on the backs of Michigan’s must vulnerable citizens and the providers that care for them.
If you have any questions regarding this Action Alert, please contact
David Finkbeiner at the MHA at (517) 703-8604.
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