Laura
10-22-2009, 04:44 PM
Act Now to Ensure the CFC Option and CLASS ACT Remain in Healthcare Reform!
Call Your Senators This Wednesday and Thursday and Ask for their Support!
Contact both of your Senators’ offices today and tomorrow October 21 and 22! You may call toll-free (thanks to Families USA): 1-800-828-0498 or use the Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121.
Message
I am calling to urge Senator _________ to ensure that both the CLASS Act and the Community First Choice Option are included in the final healthcare reform bill in the Senate. People with disabilities who need long term services and supports now or in the future should be:
Background Information
This week the Senate Finance and the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committees are merging their separate healthcare reform bills into one single bill that will go to the Senate floor to be debated as early as next week. Two critical provisions that change the way long term services are delivered and funded for people with disabilities are included. These two provisions complement one another and must be a part of the final Senate bill!
The Finance Committee bill includes the Community First Choice (CFC) Medicaid Option. This state option will allow the states to offer broadly defined attendant services and supports in one’s home or community setting to individuals eligible for nursing home, ICFs/MR, and other institutional level care. To encourage the states to implement the CFC Option, the state will receive a 6 percent increase in its federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) match for services provided under this option. The CFC moves us one step closer to ending the institutional bias in Medicaid!
The Health Education Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee’s bill includes the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act (CLASS) Act. The CLASS Act would create a solvent, affordable, premium-based, national insurance program providing a cash benefit that can be used for assistance with the activities of daily living. This helps state Medicaid budgets because many people will have a way to avoid becoming impoverished by spending down to Medicaid eligibility levels. The CLASS Act complements the CFC Option and Medicaid, Medicare, and private long term care insurance.
If you have questions about the CFC, the CLASS Act or healthcare reform, please call NCIL Policy Analyst, Jason Beloungy, at 202-207-0334 (toll-free: 1-877-525-3400), ext. 1008. Jason can also be reached by e-mail at: jason@ncil.org
NCIL: Celebrating 25 Years Independent Living
Act Now to Ensure the CFC Option and CLASS ACT Remain in Healthcare
Reform!
Call Your Senators This Wednesday and Thursday and Ask for their
Support!
Contact both of your Senators’ offices today and tomorrow October 21
and 22! You may call toll-free (thanks to Families USA):
1-800-828-0498 or use the Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121.
Message
I am calling to urge Senator _________ to ensure that both the CLASS Act
and the Community First Choice Option are included in the final
healthcare reform bill in the Senate. People with disabilities who need
long term services and supports now or in the future should be:
1. a part of the solution;
2. able self-determine the services and supports that they really want;
and
3. able to have the freedom to choose where they want to live.
Background Information
This week the Senate Finance and the Senate Health, Education, Labor and
Pensions (HELP) Committees are merging their separate healthcare reform
bills into one single bill that will go to the Senate floor to be debated
as early as next week. Two critical provisions that change the way
long term services are delivered and funded for people with disabilities
are included. These two provisions complement one another and must
be a part of the final Senate bill!
The Finance Committee bill includes the Community First Choice (CFC)
Medicaid Option. This state option will allow the states to offer broadly
defined attendant services and supports in one’s home or community
setting to individuals eligible for nursing home, ICFs/MR, and other
institutional level care. To encourage the states to implement the
CFC Option, the state will receive a 6 percent increase in its federal
medical assistance percentage (FMAP) match for services provided under
this option. The CFC moves us one step closer to ending the institutional
bias in Medicaid!
The Health Education Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee’s bill
includes the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act
(CLASS) Act. The CLASS Act would create a solvent, affordable,
premium-based, national insurance program providing a cash benefit that
can be used for assistance with the activities of daily living. This
helps state Medicaid budgets because many people will have a way to avoid
becoming impoverished by spending down to Medicaid eligibility
levels. The CLASS Act complements the CFC Option and Medicaid,
Medicare, and private long term care insurance.
If you have questions about the CFC, the CLASS Act or healthcare reform,
please call NCIL Policy Analyst, Jason Beloungy, at 202-207-0334
(toll-free: 1-877-525-3400), ext. 1008. Jason can also be reached by
e-mail at: jason@ncil.org
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Call Your Senators This Wednesday and Thursday and Ask for their Support!
Contact both of your Senators’ offices today and tomorrow October 21 and 22! You may call toll-free (thanks to Families USA): 1-800-828-0498 or use the Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121.
Message
I am calling to urge Senator _________ to ensure that both the CLASS Act and the Community First Choice Option are included in the final healthcare reform bill in the Senate. People with disabilities who need long term services and supports now or in the future should be:
Background Information
This week the Senate Finance and the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committees are merging their separate healthcare reform bills into one single bill that will go to the Senate floor to be debated as early as next week. Two critical provisions that change the way long term services are delivered and funded for people with disabilities are included. These two provisions complement one another and must be a part of the final Senate bill!
The Finance Committee bill includes the Community First Choice (CFC) Medicaid Option. This state option will allow the states to offer broadly defined attendant services and supports in one’s home or community setting to individuals eligible for nursing home, ICFs/MR, and other institutional level care. To encourage the states to implement the CFC Option, the state will receive a 6 percent increase in its federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) match for services provided under this option. The CFC moves us one step closer to ending the institutional bias in Medicaid!
The Health Education Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee’s bill includes the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act (CLASS) Act. The CLASS Act would create a solvent, affordable, premium-based, national insurance program providing a cash benefit that can be used for assistance with the activities of daily living. This helps state Medicaid budgets because many people will have a way to avoid becoming impoverished by spending down to Medicaid eligibility levels. The CLASS Act complements the CFC Option and Medicaid, Medicare, and private long term care insurance.
If you have questions about the CFC, the CLASS Act or healthcare reform, please call NCIL Policy Analyst, Jason Beloungy, at 202-207-0334 (toll-free: 1-877-525-3400), ext. 1008. Jason can also be reached by e-mail at: jason@ncil.org
NCIL: Celebrating 25 Years Independent Living
Act Now to Ensure the CFC Option and CLASS ACT Remain in Healthcare
Reform!
Call Your Senators This Wednesday and Thursday and Ask for their
Support!
Contact both of your Senators’ offices today and tomorrow October 21
and 22! You may call toll-free (thanks to Families USA):
1-800-828-0498 or use the Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121.
Message
I am calling to urge Senator _________ to ensure that both the CLASS Act
and the Community First Choice Option are included in the final
healthcare reform bill in the Senate. People with disabilities who need
long term services and supports now or in the future should be:
1. a part of the solution;
2. able self-determine the services and supports that they really want;
and
3. able to have the freedom to choose where they want to live.
Background Information
This week the Senate Finance and the Senate Health, Education, Labor and
Pensions (HELP) Committees are merging their separate healthcare reform
bills into one single bill that will go to the Senate floor to be debated
as early as next week. Two critical provisions that change the way
long term services are delivered and funded for people with disabilities
are included. These two provisions complement one another and must
be a part of the final Senate bill!
The Finance Committee bill includes the Community First Choice (CFC)
Medicaid Option. This state option will allow the states to offer broadly
defined attendant services and supports in one’s home or community
setting to individuals eligible for nursing home, ICFs/MR, and other
institutional level care. To encourage the states to implement the
CFC Option, the state will receive a 6 percent increase in its federal
medical assistance percentage (FMAP) match for services provided under
this option. The CFC moves us one step closer to ending the institutional
bias in Medicaid!
The Health Education Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee’s bill
includes the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act
(CLASS) Act. The CLASS Act would create a solvent, affordable,
premium-based, national insurance program providing a cash benefit that
can be used for assistance with the activities of daily living. This
helps state Medicaid budgets because many people will have a way to avoid
becoming impoverished by spending down to Medicaid eligibility
levels. The CLASS Act complements the CFC Option and Medicaid,
Medicare, and private long term care insurance.
If you have questions about the CFC, the CLASS Act or healthcare reform,
please call NCIL Policy Analyst, Jason Beloungy, at 202-207-0334
(toll-free: 1-877-525-3400), ext. 1008. Jason can also be reached by
e-mail at: jason@ncil.org
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