Advocacy to Preserve Medicaid Coverage for Millions of New Yorkers
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At the same time that we are advocating to help maintain access to physician care for patients covered by Medicare, we are also working to prevent potentially steep cuts to the Medicaid program. Physicians are urged to send a letter to their members of Congress Protect Patient Access to Comprehensive Care: Stop Deep Cuts to Medicaid to help preserve coverage and fair payment for care provided to the millions of New Yorkers covered under the Medicaid program.
MSSNY is collaborating with a large coalition of patient and health care provider groups across New York State and has signed onto a letter to members of New York’s Congressional Delegation NY Delegation-Letter-Protect-Medicaid-January-2025.pdf urging them to oppose deep proposed cuts to the Medicaid program and other essential publicly financed health insurance programs. While the recent Budget resolution did not specifically implement cuts, it assigns a nearly $900 billion reduction target to the House Energy & Commerce Committee, with Medicaid as a major program under their authority.
These proposed cuts would have a significant domino effect, resulting in deep reductions to programs in New York State that currently support millions of patients. MSSNY has also joined a letter to Congressional leaders from dozens of state medical associations State Medical Assn Letter to Congress (022725).pdf across the country to prevent these Medicaid cuts. Additionally, several county medical societies have participated in locally focused joint stakeholder letters to their local Congressional representatives.
