Congressional Action Kit
The National Rural Health Association's Rural Health Policy Institute is the largest rural advocacy event in the country. At the conference you can learn firsthand about the development and implementation of health care policy at the federal level and meet with your members of Congress.NRHA has developed three "asks" or items for members to ask their senators and representatives to support:
1) The continuation of rural Medicare "extenders".
2) Modifying the Medicare sequestration process set to begin in January 2013 to avoid disproportionate harm to the rural health safety net.
3) Appropriate funding levels for rural health programs through fiscal year 2013.
Action Kit
Click here for a document outlining these requests.
Click here for a document on the need for rural Medicare extenders. Click here for a copy of the Conference Report extending some of these provisions.
Click here for a document outlining the economic impact of sequestration. Click here for sequestration information specific to your state.
Click here and here for NRHA's supplemental appropriations documents.
Click here for a copy of NRHA's 2012 Legislative and Regulatory Agenda.
For a current list of Senate health staffers, click here. For the House of Representatitves list, click here.
