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United Spinal Association encourages everyone to get involved and be an advocate and activist. We can facilitate change but only if we actively pursue it.
Mobilization
The District Mobilization Initiative is focused on two primary goals: recruiting committed advocates all across the country who will commit to sending United Spinal’s action alerts to their members of Congress, and having those advocates serve as ambassadors for the SCI/D community with their lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
Priorities
We focus resources and expertise on advancing opportunities, social equity, and disability rights for all people living with a spinal cord injury or disease.
Action Alerts
Hands Off Medicaid
Congress is currently fast-tracking a bill that would cut over $800 billion from Medicaid, jeopardizing the essential healthcare, personal care, and home and community-based services that many families, seniors, and people with disabilities rely on. You must contact your members of Congress now and urge them to save Medicaid before the House votes on the Senate’s version of the bill.
National Action for Wheelchair Repair Reform
Ask your members of Congress to support legislation to address systemic issues in the wheelchair repair process. We support including provisions that would:
- Remove prior authorization requirements for Medicare Advantage Plans for CRT repair.
- Create a model to evaluate the benefits/costs of covering preventive maintenance.
- Reimburse wheelchair repair technicians’ transportation costs.
- Provide us an expected timeline for repairs.
- Build a list of wheelchair components that we can repair, or have repaired, ourselves