The debate over raising the debt ceiling will determine the financial security and the health of our families and communities. Tweet 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.
For the U.S. House of Representatives:
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 the Twitter page 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 Twitter page, click on the Twitter icon to visit the page.
Copy or remember your Representative’s Twitter handle (@username). We also encourage you to follow your Representative.
Log in to your Twitter account and post a Twitter message.
For the U.S. Senate:
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 Twitter information for your Senators. Senators are listed in alphabetical order by state.
If your Senators have Twitter pages, click on the Twitter icons to visit the pages.
Copy or remember your Senators’ Twitter handles (@username). We also encourage you to follow your Senators.
Log in to your Twitter account and post a Twitter message.
Post a Twitter message to your Representative and your Senators:
Important: Please use the hashtag #Medicaid or #SaveMedicaid in all of your Twitter messages. Using hashtags helps to aggregate data on what people are talking about on Twitter. You can also include hashtags for your city and state, such as #SF (San Francisco), #BayArea (San Francisco Bay Area), #DC (Washington, DC), and #DMV (DC/Maryland/Virginia)
Example Messages:
We still need #Medicaid: percentage and number of Americans covered is the highest since 1987 http://bit.ly/iINqgN
In 2009, 1/2 of #Medicaid enrollees were children 1/2 were predominantly seniors & people with disabilities. http://ow.ly/5juTg #SaveMedicaid
Women rely on #medicaid: 75% of adults enrolled are women; 17 million low-income adult women were enrolled in 2006. http://bit.ly/iINqgN
Drs. report “Hospitals run on tight margins”; patients will suffer from govt cuts 2 #medicare #medicaid, http://bit.ly/qzKiGn #debtceiling