Vote No on the Better Care Reconciliation Act Protect People with MS
Dear (Senator Casey & Senator Toomey),
As a person impacted by multiple sclerosis and your constituent, I urge you to VOTE NO on the Better Care Reconciliation Act.
The Senate's Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 will reduce access to coverage, make coverage and care less affordable, and fails to provide and protect comprehensive insurance.
- By eliminating the Medicaid expansion enacted under the Affordable Care Act, which gave states additional funding to offer insurance coverage to low-income people up to 133% of the poverty line.
- By jeopardizing all Medicaid services by capping all federal Medicaid funding starting in year 2025, significantly reducing state funds and forcing every state to make hard choices like eliminating health and supportive services, cutting beneficiaries out of the program, and more.
- Allowing states to opt out of vital patient protections that are especially important for people with high-cost medical conditions. These protections include the current caps on out-of-pocket costs and bans on insurers' use of lifetime and annual limits of coverage.
- Allowing states to opt out of the current requirements that insurers must cover 10 'Essential Health Benefits.'
Please vote NO on the Better Care Reconciliation Act when the U.S. Senate considers the bill.
Sincerely,
Frank Austin
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