SITUATION: The Trump administration launched a plan to move up to 30 million seniors and disabled people into Direct Contracting Entities without their knowledge or consent. These DCEs are private, for-profit corporations which would be able to pocket up to 40% of what they charge Medicare, compared to 2% by Traditional Medicare providers.
SITUATION: The Biden administration is continuing this process!
THIS IS EGREGIOUS FOR MANY REASONS! Here are just a few:
- DCEs would generate profits by denying care and charging more.
- They would have no Congressional oversight.
- This is part of a movement to completely privatize Medicare by 2030.
ACTIONS:
CONTACT Speaker Pelosi at and insist she call for a halt to this process and hold hearings:
90 7th Street, Suite 2-800
San Francisco, CA 94103
phone: (415) 556-4862
https://www.speaker.gov/contact
CONTACT your own Representative and tell her/him to insist Pelosi hold hearings while forcing a pause in this process which is already underway:
https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative
CONTACT Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and thank him for pausing the process and sounding the alarm:
HHS Headquarters
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
200 Independence Avenue, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20201
Phone: (877) 696-6775
xavier.becerra@hhs.gov
IMPORTANT:
Urge your friends across the country to
contact their own Representatives, and tell them to
STOP THE ATTACK ON MEDICARE!