The debate over raising the debt ceiling will determine the financial security and the health of our families and communities. Send a message to your U.S. Representative and U.S. Senators today and tell them to protect Medicare and Medicaid!
Medicare and Medicaid provide a safety net for our most vulnerable community members – including children, pregnant women, seniors and people with disabilities – and more Americans than ever rely on the coverage they provide. Medicaid provides stable health coverage and services for 11% of Asian Americans and 14% of Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders. In addition, over 14% of Asian seniors rely on Medicare and Medicaid for health coverage.
Send Your Representatives a Message on Facebook:
Find your Representative at www.house.gov by entering your zip code into the “Find Your Representative” widget at the top left hand side of the page. When the search results page loads, pay attention to your Representative’s name and district number.
Visit www.govsm.com/w/house to find Facebook information for your Representative. Representatives are listed in alphabetical order by state and listed by district number. Scroll down to your state and look for your Representative by your district number.
If your Representative has a Facebook page, click on the Facebook icon to visit the page.
Log in to your Facebook account. In order to interact with your Representative you will need to “like” his or her fan page.
Sample Message:
As your constituent, I am celebrating the one-year anniversary of health care reform and wanted my Representative to know it is important to our communities! Health care reform has already provided a number of benefits, including providing no-cost preventive services and prohibiting insurers from denying coverage to children with pre-existing conditions.
Send Your Senators a Message on Facebook:
Find your Senators at www.senate.gov by entering your zip code into the “Find Your Senator” widget at the top left hand side of the page.
Visit www.govsm.com/w/senate to find Facebook information for your Senators. Senator are listed in alphabetical order by state.
If your Senators have a Facebook page, click on the Facebook icon to visit the page.
Log in to your Facebook account. In order to interact with your Senators you will need to “like” their fan pages.
Sample Message:
As your constituent, I urge you to ensure that the financial security and health of our families are not bargained away. Please support raising the debt ceiling without devastating cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Our road map to economic recovery cannot rely on tax cuts for the wealthy and the dismantling of essential services for those who need it the most.
Post a message on your own profile and tag your Representatives and Senators.
To tag your Representative or Senator in a Facebook post, in the message box, type @username.
A drop-down box will appear populating names as you enter it in.
Select the name and it will be highlighted in your status update.
Complete the message and click “share.”
Sample Message:
@[Name], as your constituent, I urge you to ensure that the financial security and health of our families are not bargained away. Please support raising the debt ceiling without devastating cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Our road map to economic recovery cannot rely on tax cuts for the wealthy and the dismantling of essential services for those who need it the most.