June
18, 2009 :: Updated Action Alert!
Tell your
Senators & Representatives in Congress:
1 - Health care reform must include expanded access to Medicaid for all
low-income people!
2 - Passing ETHA is a critical part of health care reform for people
living with HIV/AIDS!
3 - Health care reform must include a public
insurance option to ensure access to meaningful care for people with
HIV/AIDS!
[find your Senators'
and Representatives' contact information]
Tracking Health Care Reform
·
TAEP's analysis
of Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee's draft health
care reform bill (Affordable Health Choices Act)
·
Fact sheet on
ETHA and Medicaid in national health care reform (May 7, 2009)
· HIV Health Care Access Working Group's
response to the Senate Finance Committee's proposals for health care reform
(May 22, 2009)
·
TAEP's analysis of S.1099,
Coburn
health care reform bill (introduced in Senate on May 20, 2009)
· HIV Health Care Access Working Group's
comments to the Senate Finance Committee
regarding health care delivery systems
(April 21, 2009)
·
TAEP's analysis of S.703, Sanders
health care reform bill (introduced in Senate on March 25, 2009)
·
TAEP's analysis of S.391, Wyden health
care reform bill (introduced in Senate on February 6, 2009)
·
TAEP's analysis of Baucus plan
for health care reform (unveiled on November 12, 2008)
·
Health Care
Reform Platform [detailed]
·
Health Care
Reform Platform
[summary]
·
Health Care Reform Plan Comparison Chart
TAEP in
the Community
Robert Greenwald presented a
health care
reform update at the
CAEAR
Coalition (Community Advocates for Emergency AIDS Relief) summer meeting
in Washington, DC on June 15, 2009.
Robert Greenwald and Laura Hanen (Director of Government
Relations, National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors),
co-chairs of the HIV Health Care Access Working Group, presented the Working
Group's HIV
Health Care Access & Advocacy Agenda at the Federal AIDS Policy
Partnership (FAPP) quarterly meeting on May 21, 2009 in Washington, DC.
Robert Greenwald presented TAEP's HIV Health Care Access & Advocacy Agenda
to positive women around the nation on the
Positive Women's
Network's grassroots conference call on Women, HIV and Health Care
Reform on May 8, 2009.
Robert Greenwald presented
“AIDS Watch 2009: Our
Health Care Access Advocacy Agenda” at AIDS Watch 2009. The Treatment
Access Expansion Project and the National Association of People with AIDS
co-sponsored AIDS Watch, which took place in Washington DC on April 27-29.
This year’s AIDS Watch featured a Congressional Briefing on the Early
Treatment for HIV Act (ETHA) and Health Care Reform. Lead House sponsors of
ETHA, Representatives Eliot Engel and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, also attended and
spoke at the briefing.
Robert Greenwald
presented on
“The
Future of Health Care” at the Annual Community Partnership Meeting of
the National AIDS Fund. The meeting’s theme was “Stronger Together: Sharing
Strategies to Manage Change” and tool place in El Paso, Texas, on April
22-25, 2009.
In The
Headlines
·
Bill to
establish a public health insurance option introduced in Senate. [read
more]
·
House leaders
outline health care reform priorities. [read
more]
·
Bills to help
close the Medicare prescription drug coverage gap introduced in the House
and Senate. [read
more]
·
Early
Treatment of HIV/AIDS Act ("ETHA") introduced in House and Senate.
[read more]
·
Senate
leaders introduce health care reform plans that could change the
way low income individuals living with HIV/AIDS access care …
[read more]
·
Bill to end the 2-year waiting period for Medicare coverage introduced in
Congress ...
[read
more]
·
Stimulus
Package helps preserve access to care through Medicaid …[read
more]
TAEP's 2009 Agenda
To further
our goal of maximizing access to increasingly effective HIV care and
treatment, we
focus on opportunities in four areas:
·
Increased
testing
·
Reduction/Elimination of Late Diagnosis
·
Promotion of
Early Access to Care
·
Reduction of
Stigma
Read more about TAEP's work.
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