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Sign-On Letter:

Dear Members of the Pennsylvania Delegation to Congress,

We, the undersigned organizations, write to urge you to oppose the latest proposal in Congress that would take healthcare away from 600,000 Pennsylvanians who get their coverage through Medicaid or Pennie, Pennsylvania’s marketplace.

In Pennsylvania, Medicaid currently serves over 3 million people, primarily children, seniors, people with disabilities, and hardworking families. The proposed legislation would establish new work requirements for people who get their coverage through Medicaid, most of whom are already working if they can work, and restrict how states can finance their Medicaid programs. 

Proposed cuts to Medicaid funding would force the state to make impossible choices: taking away health coverage, reducing services, or drastically increasing state spending to maintain current coverage levels. Pennsylvania will be particularly hard-hit by the proposal, with an estimated $1.7 to $4.5 billion in cuts each year to the commonwealth’s Medicaid program. An estimated 320,000 working-age adults losing Medicaid would lose coverage due to cumbersome new work requirements and duplicative redeterminations. Other changes to Medicaid would increase the burden of medical debt on Pennsylvanians by an estimated $173 million a year.

Eliminating auto-renewal for verified and eligible individuals, changes that lower the amount of financial assistance available, and the expiration of tax credits for marketplace insurance will hurt the nearly 500,000 low- to moderate-income Pennsylvanians who rely on affordable plans purchased through Pennie to access quality healthcare. Families who purchase their insurance through the marketplace will see their premiums double and higher out-of-pocket costs, and at least 270,000 are projected to become uninsured altogether as a result.

With half a million more Pennsylvanians going uninsured under the latest proposal, the cost of uncompensated care will rise dramatically in Pennsylvania. At a time when hospitals are struggling financially, Pennsylvania would need to find more than $700 million a year to pay for increased uncompensated care costs. Cuts to Medicaid funding coupled with significant increases in uncompensated care put 47 Pennsylvania hospitals in moderate to significant risk of closure or loss of core services.

We strongly urge you to oppose the current Budget Reconciliation Bill or any proposal that would take healthcare away from Pennsylvanian children, seniors, people with disabilities, and working families.

Thank you for your consideration.

Signed,