Re: Death Sentence for 50,000 HIV+ Americans!

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Get Well) wrote:
>THE MEDICARE DRUG BILL “DEAL” WILL SLASH DRUG COVERAGE FOR 50,000 AMERICANS
>LIVING WITH AIDS
>
>* CALL DC TODAY & TELL CONGRESS TO VOTE “NO” ON THIS DANGEROUS MEASURE
* 
>
>This week’s compromise deal on the Medicare drug bill includes a radical
and 
>dangerous provision that would eliminate wrap-around drug coverage for almost

>6 million vulnerable senior citizens and persons with disabilities including

>over 50,000 people living with AIDS and HIV who are eligible for both Medicare

>and Medicaid.
>
>The proposed final bill would bar states from using Medicaid funds to pay
for 
>medications and cost sharing not covered under the new Medicare drug benefit.

>  Right now, more than 50,000 very low-income people with AIDS rely on
these 
>wrap-around benefits for basic lifesaving health care, including AIDS 
>medications.   And millions of Americans with other disabilities and
>vulnerable senior 
>citizens are in the same boat.
>
>We’ve got to stop this terrible measure: otherwise, how will these people

>survive?   They are the poorest of the poor – they don’t have extra
money
>to pay 
>for the co-pays, deductibles, and extra costs imposed under the new Medicare

>drug bill. They need comprehensive drug coverage provided by the Medicaid

>wrap around to survive.
>
>TAKE ACTION NOW:   Call your Senators and House Members in Washington
NOW 
>toll-free at 877-762-8762 and tell them “Vote against the Medicare drug
>bill.   It’s a death sentence for 50,000 Americans living with AIDS
and
>that’s not 
>acceptable.”
>
>Thank You, from the HIV Medicaid & Medicare Workgroup.
>concatenated



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