SIGN ON: SUPPORT MEDICAID EXPANSION NOW
Did you know the American Rescue Plan created incentives for the 14 states to join the rest of the country and expand Medicaid immediately, covering millions of Americans, creating over 1 million jobs, and adding more than $350 billion to their local economies over the next 3 years?[1]
Of course, the conservatives are doing whatever they can to stop it from happening. The good news is we can expand medicaid without them.
In fact, two of those states - Missouri and Oklahoma - already did it!
The state and local leaders and healthcare professionals worked together to pass Medicaid Expansion by taking it straight to voters at the ballot box and WON!
They provide a model for the other 12 states -- South Dakota, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Kansas, Alabama, Mississippi, Wyoming, South Carolina, Wisconsin, Tennessee, and Texas -- to follow.
Congress can also close the Medicaid coverage gap[2] without conservative support using the process of budget reconciliation that only requires a majority vote to win by including Senator Warnock’s Medicaid expansion amendment in the reconciliation bill.
Sign now to demand leaders in Congress and locally in the 12 remaining states expand Medicaid to over 2.2 million Americans in need by any means necessary now.
[1] The Economic and Employment Effects of Medicaid Expansion Under the American Rescue Plan, Commonwealth Fund May 2021
[2] The Medicaid Coverage Gap: State Fact Sheets, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities