Capitol Insight Action Alert: Sept. 17, 2009
Call Your Legislators Today Before Your Mcare Payment Is Used to Balance the State Budget
Money you paid into the Mcare Fund is in jeopardy. To save it, you must call your state legislators today. Find them with Capwiz.
A budget deal being hammered out right now in the General Assembly would take the more than $100 million of the surplus balance in the Mcare Fund—a surplus that only exists because physicians and other health care providers have paid excess Mcare assessments.
The Pennsylvania Medical Society is asking all of its members to contact their state legislators. Please contact your state representative first—because we stand the best chance of getting support in the state House of Representatives—and then contact your state senator.
Tell lawmakers that you are angry and that they should oppose using money you paid to the Mcare Fund to balance the state budget. Tell them that it is wrong to balance the state budget on the backs of health care providers. (Get more talking points.)
The Pennsylvania Medical Society believes that state law requires that this surplus be used to reduce the 2009 Mcare assessment. The Medical Society and the Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP) have appealed the 2009 assessment, but that lawsuit won’t be decided in time to protect the money in the Mcare Fund. A budget deal could be finalized any day.
This is one of our last chances to protect the money before the budget is signed. Please help us by calling your legislators as soon as possible. Let us know who you have contacted so that we can make sure every legislator hears from a physician.
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Last Updated: 9/17/2009