When Congress is on its August recess, engage with your lawmakers while they are home and discuss the impact that the recently passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act and other policy proposals will have on hospitals’ ability to provide care. Ask them to extend funding for Low-volume Adjustment and Medicare-Dependent Hospital, telehealth and hospital-at-home waivers, to prolong Medicaid DSH cuts from going into effect, and to extend the Enhanced Premium Tax Credits. Finally, ask them not to take any more funding away from Medicaid and Medicare. It is important that your legislators understand hospitals and health systems cannot sustain any additional funding reductions, especially as we are facing the implementation of Medicaid cuts in the OBBBA.
Start building relationships with your legislators and their staffers through calls, emails and face-to-face meetings. Learn how to host a site visit at your hospital and get tips on how to tell your hospital’s story. Your voice can make a difference.
This August, make plans to visit your members of Congress in their offices, speak with them at a community event or invite them to your hospital to show them the importance of supporting policies that allow hospitals to provide care to their communities. The following resources can help you and your team in these conversations.
The AHA Political Action Committee (AHAPAC) allows eligible hospital leaders to make voluntary donations toward the support of federal candidates of both political parties who support the hospital policy agenda. AHAPAC is bipartisan, working with state hospital associations and others.
For more information, please email pac@aha.org.
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AHA Advocacy Alliance were created to help you engage your legislators on specific issues that have a direct impact on your ability to continue providing quality health services in your community. Alliance activities include special briefing calls and emails to keep members up-to-date on key developments, breakout sessions at AHA Advocacy Days, direct member outreach and other issue-specific resources.
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The Coalition to Strengthen America’s Health Care was formed to protect access to the best quality health care for all Americans. We are a community of more than one million people who recognize the important role hospitals play in communities all over America, and advocate on their behalf to elected officials in Washington who too-often put funding for paitent care on chopping block.
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