Four things you can do to help NC expand Medicaid to help more North Carolinians achieve their best possible health!

 

1. Write a letter to the editor of your local paper or news outlet supporting expansion. Examples include business people who support expansion because of the $20 billion in new spending injected into the state economy, health care providers who see the consequences when lower income people delay health care because they are uninsured, and anyone who sees decent health care for everyone a moral issue.

Use our letter to the editor alert that makes it easy to compose and send your letter:

 

http://www.capwiz.com/ncjustice/issues/alert/?alertid=62351101&PROCESS=Take+Action

 

 

2. Sign Action NC's individual petition to Governor McCrory urging expansion:

 

http://signon.org/sign/tell-mccrory-expand-medicaid?source=c.url&r_by=293253

 

 

3. Get your local affiliate (if you haven't done so already!) to sign the recent letter to McCrory from over 70 respected NC organizations urging expansion:

 

http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2013/01/22/more-than-70-groups-call-on-mccrory-to-expand-medicaid/

 

 

4. Send a quick email to your state representatives through Consumers Union (the publisher of Consumer Reports magazine):

 

http://cu.convio.net/site/R?i=kgO7_WWpkvC30bOUXlxU8g

 

 

 

Thanks to the NC Justice Center for the helpful information and links listed above.  We are hearing that the time is NOW for contacting your legislators to urge their support for this needed expansion.  As always, thank you for all your work throughout the state on behalf of those living with mental illness!

  

Deby Dihoff, MA

Executive Director