AIDS Issues Update
Action Alert: Tell NY Legislators to Move on Medicaid Reform!
Call and tell Assembly, Senate it's time to support Paterson's plan to help the poor
Ken Raske and company shouldn’t get in the way of good health care reform
Both the State Senate and Assembly understand the importance of Governor David Paterson’s Medicaid reforms. But word on the street in Albany is that the legislators might cave in to pressure from the big health care lobbyists and push back these changes until October, or even another year.
Paterson’s Medicaid reforms would save New York tax payers $2.4 billion and would actually expand health care to poor New Yorkers. The 1199 Healthcare Union and the Greater New York Hospital Association have been instrumental in misleading the public about the reforms. For more information about why Medicaid reform is a good deal for poor New Yorkers with AIDS check out our webpage or read this New York Daily News op-ed by Housing Works President and CEO Charles King.
Call your legislators and tell them change can’t wait! Here’s what you can say: “I’m a New Yorker and I urge (insert name of legislator) to support Governor Paterson’s changes to health care reform this year. Medicaid dollars need to go to preventative care and the poor people who need it. Not to the big hospitals.”
Here’s who to call:
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver 518-455-3791
Assembly health committee
Richard Gottfried (committee chair) 518-455-4941
Aileen Gunther 518-455-5355
Amy Paulin 518-455-5585
Andrew Raia 518-455-5952
Charles Lavine 518-455-5456
Crystal Peoples 518-455-5005
Darryl Towns 518-455-5821
David McDonough 518-455-4633
Jack Quinn 518-455-4462
James Bacalles 518-455-5791
James Conte 518-455-5732
Jeffrey Dinowitz 518-455-5965
Joel Miller 518-455-5725
John McEneny 518-455-4178
Jonathan Bing 518-455-4794
Kevin Cahill 518-455-4436
Linda Rosenthal 518-455-5802
Lou Tobacco 518-455-5844
Naomi Rivera 518-455-5844
Nettie Mayersohn 518-455-4404
Patricia Eddington 518-455-4901
Rhoda Jacobs 518-455-5385
Robin Schimminger 518-455-4767
Sandy Galef 518-455-5348
Steven Cymbrowitz 518-455-5214
William Magnarelli 518-455-4826
Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith 518-455-2701
Senate health committee
Tom Duane (committee chair) 518-455-2451
Velma Montgomery 518-426-6854
George Onorato 518-455-3486
Hugh Farley 518-843-2188
Kemp Hannon 518-455-2200
Carl Kruger 518-455-2460
John Sampson 518-426-6806
John Fuschillo 518-455-3341
Jeffrey Klein 518-455-3595
George Winner 518-455-2091
David Valesky 518-455-2838
Andrea Stewart-Cousins 518-455-2585
Elizabeth O’C Little 518-455-2811
Antoine Thompson 518-455-3371
Craig Johnson 518-455-2622
Catherine Young 518-455-3563
