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To: |
Mental Health Liaison Group Members
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From: |
Linda Whitten, Charles Konigsberg
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Re: |
Legislative Alert: Medicaid Reconciliation Bill
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Date: |
January 23, 2006 |
The Medicaid reconciliation bill will return to the Floor of the House for a vote on February. Please see the following message from the Campaign for Mental Health Reform and do what you can to help.
As you know, the House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on S. 1932, the Budget Reconciliation bill on February 1st.
As part of our advocacy effort to defeat the bill, the Campaign has established January 31 as NATIONAL MENTAL HEALTH CALL CONGRESS DAY.
All of our Campaign Partners will send out urgent email alerts prior to the 31st urging their members located in specific congressional districts to call their Member of Congress on Tuesday, January 31st and ask them to vote against S. 1932 because it would cut back access to vital mental health services.
This is important -- we need their phones ringing off the hook on Tuesday January 31st.
Below is a list of representatives to call (including their direct phone numbers) organized by state. These offices have been selected because they are republicans who previously voted for the bill, but might consider voting against it.
Please forward this email to the MHLG so we can have a united national effort on January 31st.
Best Regards,
Charles S. Konigsberg
Executive Director, Campaign for Mental Health Reform
1050 17th St, NW, Ste 600
Wash DC 20036
202-587-2984 (ph) 202-587-2983 (fax)
[email protected]
www.mhreform.org
- American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
- American Psychiatric Association
- American Psychological Association
- CHADD Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
- Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA)
- Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health (FFCMH)
- Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law*
- National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)*
- National Association of County Behavioral Health and Developmental Disability Directors (NACBHD)
- National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD)*
- National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare (NCCBH)
- National Empowerment Center (NEC) ; *National Mental Health Association (NMHA)
- National Mental Health Consumers Self-Help Clearinghouse
- Suicide Prevention Action Network USA (SPAN USA)
- United States Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association (USPRA)
*Indicates Board of Directors
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