Advocacy Action Alert: URGE YOUR LEGISLATORS TO OPPOSE MEDICARE/MEDICAID HOSPITAL CUTS - February 25, 2008 - 3:30 pm ET

Need Action From: Hospital leaders     Action: Urge your legislators to sign letters opposing Medicare/Medicaid cuts When: Immediately How: Call, e-mail your senators, representative Why: Letters expected to be closed to signatures this Friday

NEED TO INCREASE SIGNATURES ON HOUSE AND SENATE LETTERS OPPOSING MEDICARE/MEDICAID HOSPITAL CUTS As Congress returns from its President's Day recess, budget committees are getting ready to mark up their versions of a fiscal year 2009 budget. As of today, 161 House members and 16 senators have signed letters urging budget committee leaders to reject the president's proposed $135 billion in Medicare and Medicaid hospital cuts. We expect both letters to be closed to signatures this Friday, Feb. 29, so please contact your senators and House members to make sure they sign. The letters are being distributed by Sens. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) and Pat Roberts (R-KS), and Reps. Richard Neal (D-MA) and Phil English (R-PA). Please help our champions demonstrate solid opposition to the cuts! Click here to see the Lincoln-Roberts letter and the list of signers … Click here to see the Neal-English letter and the list of signers.

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