Right now, President Trump and Congressional Republicans are in the process of taking away your Medicaid. Worse, they want to do that so they can give even more money to billionaires through additional tax cuts. They want to slash one-third of Medicaid spending by adding work requirements, reducing reimbursements to states, and otherwise making it as difficult as possible for poor folks to stay insured. Millions will lose coverage. And that ain’t right.

Call 866-426-2631 this Thursday, February 6 for a national Medicaid Day of Action. The goal is to flood the Hill with messages about Medicaid, with a preference for calls but emails will also work.

We will not go back to 2013 when the majority of unhoused people were uninsured. The graph below shows the progress made in the last decade to reduce the number of uninsured unhoused people—and this is specifically due to the Medicaid expansion benefit from the Affordable Care Act. We will not undo the substantial progress made to expand access to care and extend Medicaid to cover medical respite care and services in supportive housing. When lawmakers attack Medicaid, they are attacking the health, well-being, and humanity of 80 million low-income people—to include lots of folks experiencing homelessness.

Two Actions to Take NOW:

1.) This Thursday, February 6, call 866-426-2631 to express your opposition to Medicaid cuts. It takes *2* minutes and costs nothing.

• Tell them to protect Medicaid—and to NOT allow work requirements, reductions in reimbursements, or other cuts to the program.
• Tell them it’s unfair to cut health care from poor people just so they can give rich people more money.
• Tell your story about why Medicaid is important to you. If you have lived experience, talk about how Medicaid has helped you and what it would mean if you lost it. If you are a provider, talk about how Medicaid helps your clients/patients. If you are a CEO, talk about how Medicaid helps the community you serve—and what it would mean to lose it.

2.) Share this alert broadly with your staff, partners, and on your social media.

Additional Talking Points for your Call:

• People experiencing homelessness depend on Medicaid—especially the expansion benefit.
• Safety net health care providers depend on an expanded Medicaid program.
• Medicaid drives innovative, cost-effective health system improvements and solutions to homelessness.
• Use additional information from our recent sign-on letter to protect Medicaid.
• If you want even further talking points, call scripts, and email templates, they are here.

Why is it important to advocate on this?

• This battle is not yet lost—but we need all hands on deck to fight for Medicaid. Margins in the House are very narrow, meaning we only need to convince a handful of members to vote no, but we can’t do that unless they hear a strong, collective voice. This is truly urgent.
• All people deserve health care—to include the HCH Community—and our lives depend on Medicaid.
• No one will fight this battle for us. If we believe that directly impacted people must lead the solutions they want to see happen, we need to demonstrate that by being active now.