Take Action! Please contact your lawmakers and urge them to reject harmful funding cuts to Medicaid and other health care programs. Explain how cuts to Medicaid and other programs would reduce access to care and services for their constituents.
Get Resources to Help Your Advocacy Efforts.
Use these resources and tools to show your legislators the effects their votes will have. Schedule meetings with your senators and representatives — in their home offices or in Washington, D.C. — and tell them what the consequences of their votes will be.
Start building relationships with your legislators and their staffers through calls, emails and face-to-face meetings. Learn how to host a site visit at your hospital and get tips on how to tell your hospital’s story. Your voice can make a difference.
Get up to speed on the issues in which AHA is engaged, due to their significant impact on hospitals and health systems.
The AHA Political Action Committee (AHAPAC) allows eligible hospital leaders to make voluntary donations toward the support of federal candidates of both political parties who support the hospital policy agenda. AHAPAC is bipartisan, working with state hospital associations and others.
For more information, please email pac@aha.org.
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AHA Advocacy Alliance were created to help you engage your legislators on specific issues that have a direct impact on your ability to continue providing quality health services in your community. Alliance activities include special briefing calls and emails to keep members up-to-date on key developments, breakout sessions at AHA Advocacy Days, direct member outreach and other issue-specific resources.
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The Coalition to Strengthen America’s Health Care was formed to protect access to the best quality health care for all Americans. We are a community of more than one million people who recognize the important role hospitals play in communities all over America, and advocate on their behalf to elected officials in Washington who too-often put funding for paitent care on chopping block.
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