Advocates Successfully Press Senate toReject Medicaid Cuts!

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----- Original Message ----- From: Mental-health-enews@... Mental-health-enews@... Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 7:43 AMSubject: [NYAPRS E-News] IAPSRS: Advocates Successfully Press Senate toReject Medicaid Cuts!NYAPRS Note: The following is a distillation of releases by IAPSRS and NAMI.Senate Rejects Proposal to Cut Medicaid by $11 Billion!Last night, by a narrow 53-43 vote margin, the Senate yesterday rejected efforts to cut Medicaid by $11 billion over the next five years. The bipartisan vote came on an amendment by Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) to strike provisions in the FY 2005 budget resolution that would have required the Medicaid cuts to have been put in place by the end of the year.This bipartisan opposition to further cuts to the Medicaid program demonstrates the broad support that Medicaid has a key health care safety net and the largest and most important source of funding for community mental health services. IAPSRS and NYAPRS is grateful for the leadership of Senator Baucus and his colleagues on this important issue.Thanks for all your hard work, phone calls and emails! Seifert, IAPSRSThis 'Mental Health E-News' posting is a service of the New York Ass'n of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services, a statewide coalition of people who use and/or provide community mental health services dedicated to improving services and social conditions for people with psychiatric disabilities by promoting their recovery, rehabilitation and rights. To join our list, e-mail us your request and, where appropriate, the name of your organization to NYAPRSadm@....--------------------------------------------------------------------------------_______________________________________________Mental-health-enews mailing listMental-health-enews@...http://mail.nyaprs.org/mailman/listinfo/mental-health-enews_nyaprs.org%(user_delivered_to)s[This message contained attachments]