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Action Alert
This week, the House of Representatives will begin debating its FY 2016 budget recommendation, including approximately 1,100 amendments. Please call your State Representative to urge him/her to support Majority Leader Ronald Marino’s Nursing Home Budget Amendment #433, which would restore $24 million in funding for Medicaid’s share of the user fee. Thank you!
About The Campaign
Our Parents, Our Promise: The Campaign for Quality Care is an effort to focus the public and our elected officials on the crisis in public funding for the over 400 skilled nursing centers in Massachusetts.Every year, approximately 150,000 individuals receive short-term rehabilitation and long term care in Massachusetts nursing homes. They are our parents and loved ones. One day they may be us.
But two-thirds of long term residents rely on the Medicaid program for their care, a state and federally funded program that has not adequately funded nursing home care recently. As a result of the “Great Recession” and competing state budget priorities, the state has made virtually no investment in nursing home care in the last 7 years, including a prolonged 6-year rate freeze. This has created a $370 million funding gap between the cost of care and Medicaid reimbursement, threatening the quality of our health care system.
In recognition of this serious threat, 96 Massachusetts legislators have signed on to new legislation that would stabilize payments to our skilled nursing centers and reinvest in a system that is critical to the overall quality of health care for older adults and people with disabilities in the Commonwealth. Our Promise is that we will care for them with dignity and respect.
Please take a few moments to review this website and learn the facts about long term health care in Massachusetts. Together we will keep our promise to our loved ones, but we need your help. Join our campaign today!
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