March 28, 2008

ACTION ALERT: CONTACT KEY REPS AND ASK FOR A COBRA RATE INCREASE!

Pick up the phone ASAP

The State budget conferences started this morning and will be moving like mad all through the weekend, with major decisions being made before Monday. The health budget has enough money to keep COBRA under consideration for a rate increase. Assemblymember Dick Gottfried knows this, but he needs the support of his colleagues!

Now is your final chance to contact powerful members of the Senate and Assembly (listed below) and tell them that now is the time for a long overdue rate increase to COBRA case management.

COBRA programs bring essential case management to poor people with HIV/AIDS, and because of the lack of a rate increase, most COBRA programs are in deficit.

Please take 45 seconds and call one or all of these offices to demand a $4 miilion Medicaid rate increase for COBRA case management:

Assemblymembers
Joseph Morelli: 518-455-5373
J.Gary Pretlow: 518-455-5291
Joan Millman: 518-455-5426
Barbara Clarke: 518-455-4711

Senators
John Samson:518-455-2788
Jeff Klein: 518-455-3595

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