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Health Care

League Urges Congress to Lift Severe Caps on Discretionary Spending (Article)

LWVUS joined organizations connected to the Coalition on Human Needs on a letter urging members of Congress to lift severe caps on domestic and international discretionary spending in Fiscal Years 2020 and 2021.

Rallying to Save the Affordable Care Act (Blog)

Last Wednesday, governors from across the country, congressional leaders, and special interest groups met in Washington, DC, to unveil new efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.

Shameful Effort by Congress to Sneak Health Care Repeal in Tax Bill (Press Release)

The League opposes the Senate's plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act as part of a tax overhaul bill. The newest attack on the ACA would cut health care coverage for 13 million people and increase premiums by double digits. 

League Expresses Concerns Over Healthcare.gov Outages (Legal Document)

The League joined a letter sent to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services regarding scheduled outages of healthcare.gov during the shortened 2017 open enrollment period.

League Joins 234 Organizations Calling on Senate to Reject Graham-Cassidy Proposal (Legal Document)

The League joined over 230 organizations in a letter to the U.S. Senate urging Senators to oppose the Graham-Cassidy proposal (Graham-Cassidy).

LWVUS Joins Effort to Extend Funding for CHIP (Legal Document)

The League joined other groups calling on Congress to extend and fund the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).

League Calls on President Trump to Provide Cost Sharing Payments Under ACA (Legal Document)

The League joined health care, labor and community organizations by calling on President Trump to commit to providing the cost-sharing reduction payments required under the Affordable Care Act.

League Opposes Motion to Proceed to Senate Health Care Bill (Legal Document)

The League opposes the motion to proceed on the Better Care Reconciliation Act, which will eliminate affordable quality health care for 22 million Americans by gutting the Affordable Care Act and slashing funding for Medicaid. The League urges Senators to support the parliamentarian’s ruling excluding the defunding of Planned Parenthood from the reconciliation bill.

League Joins Civil and Human Rights Groups Urging Senators to Oppose AHCA (Legal Document)

The League joined a letter to the U.S. Senate urging them to reject H.R. 1628, the American Health Care Act.

League Urges Senate to Protect Medicare and Medicaid (Legal Document)

The League joined 76 national organizations on a letter to U.S. Senate leadership urging them to reject provisions in the American Health Care Act that would undermine Medicare and Medicaid.