AOPA has committed to sending politicians a strong national message to underscore the devastating real-world impact of these proposed Medicaid cuts to individual patients with limb loss or chronic limb impairment. We are launching on TV stations around the country a new public service announcement, AOPA's first ever TV ad, that visually portrays the heart-rending message of lost mobility.  

We hope that it hammers home to ordinary citizens the message, "I knew the economy is bad, and that our states have been in serious budgetary crisis...I just didn't know that things have gotten SO BAD that states are talking about taking artificial limbs away from amputees" The ad, which was funded by AOPA and released jointly by AOPA and the Amputee Coalition, is now posted on the AOPA website, and will hopefully be picked up in placements by major cable channels across the country. Click here to go to LimbsAreEssential.org and view the PSA and on the right-hand side of the page click "Take Action" in order to send a letter to your state and federal legislators, urging them to join the fight to protect these vulnerable citizens with mobility impairments.