CLASS Act and Community First Choice Option

Urgent! Contact Senators Critical to CLASS Act Inclusion in Merged Health Reform Bill

This week, Senators working on the merging of the Senate Finance and Senate HELP health care reform bills will be focusing on the CLASS Act. It is essential that ANCOR members who are constituents of the following key Senators call or fax their offices and tell them the CLASS Act MUST be included in the merged health care bill: Senators Reid (D-NV), Baucus (D-MT), Snowe (R-ME), Durbin (D-IL), Feingold (D-WI), Schumer (D-NY), Bingaman (D-NM), Nelson (D-NE), Dodd (D-CT), Harkin (D-IA), Mikulski (D-MD), and Whitehouse (D-RI), Warner (D-VA), Webb (D-VA), Landrieu (D-LA), Bayh (D-IN), Lincoln (D-AR), Pryor (D-AR), and Tim Johnson (D-SD). Use ANCOR’s online congressional directory to get contact information.

We must work on these Senators TODAY. Message: The CLASS Act MUST be included in the merged health care bill.

Over 270 national organizations support the CLASS Act. The CLASS Act would: 1) provide a new private source of funding for ANCOR providers of long term supports and services 2)reduce federal deficit by 74 billion over 10 years 3) produce a savings to Medicaid of nearly 2 billion in first five years of implementation. The CLASS Act is fiscally solvent for 75 years.

Call Jessica Sadowsky 703-535-7850 ext. 104 if you have any questions.