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March 14, 2008

***ACTION ALERT!!***

Yesterday, Chairman Dingell (MI-15) and Rep. Murphy (PA-18) introduced legislation (H.R. 5613) that would prohibit CMS from implementing seven controversial Medicaid regulations (including limiting CMS payments for targeted case management, rehabilitation services, school-based transportation services for students with disabilities) until April of 2009.

They need our help to get a long, strong list of bipartisan cosponsorship as quickly as possible!

Similar legislation in the Senate is expected very soon.

TAKE ACTION:
Call your Representative during the recess and urge him/her to co-sponsor H.R. 5613 to put a moratorium on the CMS Medicaid regulations until next year.

Look up your Representative online now.

Talking points:

• Please co-sponsor H.R. 5613 to put a freeze on CMS's harmful new Medicaid regulations.
• Without the moratorium and the opportunity it would provide to reevaluate solutions to CMS's concerns, these new regulations will jeopardize the health and safety of Medicaid beneficiaries and limit states' ability to provide access to needed medical, social, educational, and community-based services for people with disabilities in the most effective and efficient manner.

Read more about this bill and the CMS Rules.