To: The California State House, The California State Senate, and Governor Gavin Newsom
STOP Enrolling CA Seniors & People w disAbilities into POOR performing Managed Health Care Plans
We the undersigned, seniors, people with disabilities, our friends and families feel it is RECKLESS AND A MATTER OF WIDESPREAD NEGLIGENCE TO PUT SENIORS AND PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES WHO HAVE COMPLEX AND DELICATE CONDITIONS INTO POOR PERFORMING MANAGED HEALTH CARE PLANS.**
**The report from National Senior Citizens Law Center, (May, 2012) citing the CA Department of Health Care Services' own quality assessment, shows seven plans earned a rating of 1 (poor) out of 5 stars in overall Medi-Cal performance.
We feel certain that many of us will be hurt or possibly die in programs not ready to care for us. THEREFORE we demand an IMMEDIATE HALT to these demonstration projects until satisfactorily performing health care plans are selected.
We also demand a SLOW DOWN to putting seniors and people with disabilities into health care plans until those plans are ready to deliver quality health care that will not hurt them!
FURTHERMORE we demand immediate remedies to systemic problems in these programs that are operating for seniors and people with disabilities already enrolled and Medi-Cal managed care.
Thank you: IHSS CONSUMERS UNION Susan Chandler, Blane Beckwith, Nancy Becker Kennedy, Ben Rockwell, Deborah Miles, Bertha Poole, Lillibeth Navarro, Ellyn Kearney
**The report from National Senior Citizens Law Center, (May, 2012) citing the CA Department of Health Care Services' own quality assessment, shows seven plans earned a rating of 1 (poor) out of 5 stars in overall Medi-Cal performance.
We feel certain that many of us will be hurt or possibly die in programs not ready to care for us. THEREFORE we demand an IMMEDIATE HALT to these demonstration projects until satisfactorily performing health care plans are selected.
We also demand a SLOW DOWN to putting seniors and people with disabilities into health care plans until those plans are ready to deliver quality health care that will not hurt them!
FURTHERMORE we demand immediate remedies to systemic problems in these programs that are operating for seniors and people with disabilities already enrolled and Medi-Cal managed care.
Thank you: IHSS CONSUMERS UNION Susan Chandler, Blane Beckwith, Nancy Becker Kennedy, Ben Rockwell, Deborah Miles, Bertha Poole, Lillibeth Navarro, Ellyn Kearney
Why is this important?
**The report from National Senior Citizens Law Center, (May, 2012) citing the CA Department of Health Care Services' own quality assessment, shows seven plans earned a rating of 1 (poor) out of 5 stars in overall Medi-Cal performance.