PA: Urge Your Representatives to Support HB 2718!
Morgan Sheets
Description
Collection
Title:
PA: Urge Your Representatives to Support HB 2718!
Creator:
Morgan Sheets
Date:
9/8/2006
Text:
The Amputee Coalition of America: CALL TO ACTION
On Tuesday, October 10, 2006 the Pennsylvania Health and Human Services Committee will hold a public hearing for HB 2718, a bill to ensure prosthetic coverage. This is an exciting development! We need your help to keep this bill moving forward.
Contact the committee members today to urge them to support this important legislation!
The list of Health and Human Services Committee members contact information can be found here: <URL Redacted>
Sample Letter
Dear Representative ____,
I am writing in response to HB 2718, a bill for prosthetic coverage. In return for premiums paid for group health insurance, consumers expect to be covered for catastrophic illness or injury. Sadly, without legislation to ensure coverage, many people living with the loss or absence of a limb face discouraging obstacles when trying to obtain prosthetic care. Current changes in insurance plans are having a devastating effect on amputees and their families.
For example, companies will pay the surgical cost of amputating a limb, and for subsequent amputations caused by inactivity, while simultaneously limiting or even eliminating prosthetic coverage. Other payers impose such unrealistic annual and lifetime caps on prosthetic coverage that people with limb loss are unable to obtain prostheses.
Obviously, the biggest concern anybody has about passing a new mandate is cost. People fear that big jumps in the cost of insurance will reduce access to health care. None of us want to see health insurance costs pushed beyond the reach of the average consumer. Reports from California, Colorado and Massachusetts prove that is not the case.
A Department of Health Care Policy & Financing report found that the maximum increase in premiums for prosthetic provision would be about 12 cents per month. This cost estimate did not take into account that there would also be a cost savings by both the private and public sector.
Both the financial and social benefits provide a strong case for prosthetic coverage. I urge you to support HB 2718 when it comes before the Health and Human Services Committee in October.
Sincerely,
Name, Address, Phone
________________________________________________
For more information or to get involved in the ACA's campaign for prosthetic coverage, contact us at 202/742-1885 or <Email Address Redacted> <mailto:<Email Address Redacted>> .
Sent by:
Morgan Sheets
National Advocacy Director
Amputee Coalition of America
P.O. Box 73725
Washington, D.C. 20056
Direct ph. 202-742-1880
Fax: 202-462-3892
On Tuesday, October 10, 2006 the Pennsylvania Health and Human Services Committee will hold a public hearing for HB 2718, a bill to ensure prosthetic coverage. This is an exciting development! We need your help to keep this bill moving forward.
Contact the committee members today to urge them to support this important legislation!
The list of Health and Human Services Committee members contact information can be found here: <URL Redacted>
Sample Letter
Dear Representative ____,
I am writing in response to HB 2718, a bill for prosthetic coverage. In return for premiums paid for group health insurance, consumers expect to be covered for catastrophic illness or injury. Sadly, without legislation to ensure coverage, many people living with the loss or absence of a limb face discouraging obstacles when trying to obtain prosthetic care. Current changes in insurance plans are having a devastating effect on amputees and their families.
For example, companies will pay the surgical cost of amputating a limb, and for subsequent amputations caused by inactivity, while simultaneously limiting or even eliminating prosthetic coverage. Other payers impose such unrealistic annual and lifetime caps on prosthetic coverage that people with limb loss are unable to obtain prostheses.
Obviously, the biggest concern anybody has about passing a new mandate is cost. People fear that big jumps in the cost of insurance will reduce access to health care. None of us want to see health insurance costs pushed beyond the reach of the average consumer. Reports from California, Colorado and Massachusetts prove that is not the case.
A Department of Health Care Policy & Financing report found that the maximum increase in premiums for prosthetic provision would be about 12 cents per month. This cost estimate did not take into account that there would also be a cost savings by both the private and public sector.
Both the financial and social benefits provide a strong case for prosthetic coverage. I urge you to support HB 2718 when it comes before the Health and Human Services Committee in October.
Sincerely,
Name, Address, Phone
________________________________________________
For more information or to get involved in the ACA's campaign for prosthetic coverage, contact us at 202/742-1885 or <Email Address Redacted> <mailto:<Email Address Redacted>> .
Sent by:
Morgan Sheets
National Advocacy Director
Amputee Coalition of America
P.O. Box 73725
Washington, D.C. 20056
Direct ph. 202-742-1880
Fax: 202-462-3892
Citation
Morgan Sheets, “PA: Urge Your Representatives to Support HB 2718!,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 24, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/227315.
