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Dear Partners,
 
With the recent passage of the American Rescue Plan, there are new, exciting federal incentives available for the 12 remaining states to expand Medicaid. With over 4 million people living in the Medicaid coverage gap – 60 percent of whom are people of color – there is no doubt that Medicaid expansion will have enormous implications for racial equity and the health of your state. Now, the federal government is ensuring that it will also have an even larger positive impact on your state budget. 
Federal Incentives Toolkit
Many of you have already been doing important work to lift up the federal incentives and change the conversation in your state about Medicaid expansion. This new toolkit will help you continue the conversation, making sure that everyone understands the great benefit and urgent need to expand Medicaid to keep your state healthy and move forward on a path toward health equity. 
Federal Incentives Toolkit

The toolkit includes resources to help you, your coalition members, and your supporters: 

  • Message the federal incentives to your state policymakers, Medicaid storytellers, key decisionmakers, and the public. Use this messaging guide to lift up the bonus payment available for expanding Medicaid, an urgent issue of health equity. 

  • Lift up the expansion benefits on social media. Use these state-specific social media graphics and sample posts to amplify the benefits of Medicaid expansion across your networks. 

  • Continue the conversation in the media. Submitting letters to the editor, like these samples, from you or your supporters can raise public awareness about the new federal funds on the line. 
     
  • Elevate key Medicaid expansion stakeholders. Working with a stakeholder to publish an op-ed in a local or regional newspaper can show the public that they support expansion, while publicizing in-depth information on the incentives.  
  • Learn from the work that other organizations have done. Build out your argument with research and analysis from federal organizations like the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Georgetown Center on Children and Families and Kaiser Family Foundation and see what resources some states have already published on the incentives.

These incredible federal incentives are a great opportunity to raise awareness of the benefits of Medicaid expansion and have the potential to change the conversation about expansion in some hold-out states. We are already seeing renewed interest across several states where policymakers and other stakeholders are suggesting a willingness to come to the table to capture these new federal dollars for their state budget. 

We hope these resources will help you raise public awareness and get Medicaid expansion over the finish line! 
 

In solidarity, 

Meredith Munn Wheeler
Together for Medicaid

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