Medicaid Support Group

Hi,
Swartsneger in California wants to remove monies to those who don't have money for the mental health treatment.

He also wants to reduce the 900 dollars monthly income for those people to live on too.

The bill is Prop 63 designed by Derrell Steinberg to help the disabled.

Please write to the following.
And I am including the easy to read "act" that Steinberg created.

http://www.dmh.cahwnet.gov/prop_63...

SECTION 3. Purpose and Intent.
The People of the State of California hereby declare their purpose and intent in enacting this Act
to be as follows:
(a) To define serious mental illness among children, adults and seniors as a condition
deserving priority attention, including prevention and early intervention services and
medical and supportive care.
(b) To reduce the long-term adverse impact on individuals, families and state and local budgets
resulting from untreated serious mental illness.
(c) To expand the kinds of successful, innovative service programs for children, adults and
seniors begun in California, including culturally and linguistically competent approaches
for underserved populations. These programs have already demonstrated their
effectiveness in providing outreach and integrated services, including medically necessary
psychiatric services, and other services, to individuals most severely affected by or at risk
of serious mental illness.
(d) To provide state and local funds to adequately meet the needs of all children and adults
who can be identified and enrolled in programs under this measure. State funds shall be
available to provide services that are not already covered by federally sponsored programs
or by individuals’ or families’ insurance programs.
(e) To ensure that all funds are expended in the most cost effective manner and services are
provided in accordance with recommended best practices subject to local and state
oversight to ensure accountability to taxpayers and to the public.

Please Read this no matter where you live.

Please write a letter to Senator Darrell Steinberg at all 3 of these addresses expressing that we must retain the monies from Prop 63.

We need these monies so the mentally ill are not in all of our communities on the street, so they don't become so ill they are a danger to their own safety, so they do not create a bigger burden/heart ache upon their families and friends, so they don't lose their apartments/homes, so they don't lose the ability to get their medications, so they can continue seeing their doctors and so the cost does not increase due to crisis created by lack of treatment and stable homes.

We want those who are able to work part time or full time to be able to continue working through the medical assistance they are receiving.

1. We want the public and governor to understand the need for mental health services is so great that there are insufficient funding to meet all of the serious needs with the base funding from the general fund and the prop 63 funds.

2.Prop 63 funds have been used well and have made a significant difference in peoples lives in the community.


State Office
State Capitol, Room 205
Sacramento, CA 95814

District Office
District 6
1020 N Street, #576
Sacramento, CA 95814

North Highlands Office
5722 Watt Avenue
North Highlands, CA 95660
Posted on 02/07/09, 07:02 am