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Action Alerts and Updates

2008

• Help Protect a Critical Medicaid Safety Net
  Ask your Representative to support a moratorium on seven harmful CMS rules. (3/20/08)

• Proposed Rules Issued for State Flexibility in Medicaid Plans (3/13/08)

• Moratorium Proposed on Rules Stifling Service Delivery (3/6/08)

2007

• Medicaid Rules Could Stifle Case Management Service Delivery: Information Alert and Summary (12/20/07)
• Comments Needed on Revised Medicaid Rules; Changes Could Cripple Community Mental Health (9/20/07)
• Proposed Medicaid Rule Could Exclude Some Rehabilitation Services (8/16/07)
• Please Urge Lawmakers to Co-Sponsor the Keeping Families Together Act (2/12/07)
  

2006

• Medicaid Rule on Citizenship Still Threatens Access to Care (7/20/06)
  
• Stand Up for Medicaid! (3/3/06)
• Medicaid Recipients Will Have to Document Citizenship (2/28/06)
• The President’s FY ’07 Budget: Domestic Social Programs Slighted (2/23/06)

2005

• Ask Senators to Vote No on Roberts (9/21/05)
• Critical Medicaid Support for Katrina Victims in bipartisan relief bill (9/20/05)
• Congress Delays Budget Review in Wake of Katrina (9/9/05)
• Act Now to Save Critical Medicaid Services (9/1/05)
• New Medicaid Proposal Would Gut Community Mental Health Services (8/18/05)
• Update on Mental Health-Related Legislation (8/10/05)
• Medicaid Matters: You Did It, but You're Not Done Yet (4/27/05)
• Medicaid Matters (4/26/05)
• Just Say No to Reckless Medicaid Cuts (3/15/05)
• Take action to End Juvenile Injustice in California (1/26/05)
• Help Keep Ohio Families Together (1/26/05)

2004

• On Advocates' Agenda for 2005: SAMHSA Renewal and Medicaid Protection (12/20/04)
• Legislative Update: Bills to Prevent Custody Relinquishment for Mental Health Services Await New Congress (12/20/04)
• Legislative Update: Prospects Uncertain for Children's Mental Health Bills (9/14/04)
• Urge House Passage of the Family Opportunity Act (5/7/04)
• Support New Spending in FY 2005 Bush Budget; Oppose Cuts (2/12/04)
• Bazelon Mental Health Policy Reporter: 2004 Preview (1/22/04)

2003

• Update: Family Opportunity Act Stalls (12/19/03)
• Bazelon Mental Health Policy Reporter: For Once, Advocates Welcome Inaction (11/20/03)
• Waiver Promotes Back-Door Caps to Medicaid Spending (8/13/03)
• Urgent Update on Proposals to Turn Medicaid into a Block Grant: Governors' Task Force Fails to Back White House Proposals (6/13/03)
• Fight Bush's Assault on Medicaid (5/6/03)
• Bush Proposal Threatens Access to Healthcare (2/20/03)

2002

• Family Opportunity Act Passes Senate Finance Committee (7/22/03)
• Participate in Upcoming CMS Open Door Forums (6/25/03)

2001

• Family Opportunity Act Re-Introduced (2-28-01)
• 106th Congress Produced New Programs, Mental Health Funding (1/18/01)

2000

• Family Opportunity Act Introduced in Senate (4/7/00)