Ask Senator Reid to Include Direct Care Workers as a High Priority for the National Health Care Workforce Commission in Health Reform

As the Senate continues to sort out its health reform bill, ANCOR asks you to call on your Senators to ensure that the direct care workforce, which includes DSPs, is designated as a "high priority" research area for the proposed National Health Care Workforce Commission. The Senate health reform bill already contains a provision that establishes a National Health Care Workforce Commission, but we need to make sure DSPs aren’t left out from this Commission’s work!

Ask your Senators: Urge Senator Reid to include the Kohl, Casey, Feingold amendment in the final Senate health care legislation designating the direct care workforce as a high priority research area for the proposed National Health Care Workforce Commission. This no-cost amendment will ensure that the Commission will review the current and projected workforce needs of direct care workers and provide comprehensive recommendations to Congress and the Administration on how best to align direct care workforce resources with our national needs.

Use ANCOR’s Action Center to call your Senator.

Please contact Jessica Sadowsky (jsadowsky@ancor.org) or Mary Pauline Jones (mpjones@ancor.org) if you have any questions.