“Protect Our Care/Hands Off Medicaid”

As you know we are facing severe threats to Medicaid in the next Congress. Our national coalition feels strongly that we need to hit the ground running with a “Protect Our Care/Hands Off Medicaid” message even before inauguration day.

Both 1199 and HEP (Healthcare Education Project) are part of an effort to organize rallies/press conferences in front of key Republican district offices at 12pm on January 8^th. Our NY target districts are CD 1 (LaLota) and CD 2 (Garbarino) on Long Island as well as CD 17 (Lawler) in the Hudson Valley.

Given vacation schedules, we wanted to make sure you had these events on your calendar to have your organization join us. Here are the addresses for the 12pm rallies on January 8^th as well as the point people:

CD 1: Congressman Nick LaLota 515 Hauppauge Road, Hauppauge NY 11788
‍Contact:  Onika Shepherd onikas@1199.org, 646-996-5463 and Cynthia Ngombe, Cynthia.ngombe@1199funds.org, 928-715-3608

CD 2: Congressman Andrew Garbarino 31 Oak Street, Patchogue NY 11722
‍Contact:  Onika Shepherd onikas@1199.org, 646-996-5463 and Cynthia Ngombe, Cynthia.ngombe@1199funds.org, 928-715-3608

CD 17: Congressman Mike Lawler One Blue Hill Plaza, Pearl River NY 10965
‍Contact: Maurice Brown Maurice.brown@1199.org, 716-604-8333 and Casandra Chen, Casandra.chen@1199funds.org