After clearing the Senate, SS 1 for SB 120 (Primary Care Reform) will be heard in the House Health & Human Development Committee. Hopefully, it will be voted on shortly thereafter by the entire House.
In anticipation of this, your continued help is needed to save Primary Care, and we ask you to contact your State Representative now. Yes, we previously requested for you to call your State Representatives on this bill last month, however, we need to keep the pressure up and have a limited time to do so.
If you have already called your State Representative, thank you! BUT, please call them AGAIN on this bill.
Our ASK:
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Call YOUR State Representative ASAP asking for their support of SS 1 for SB 120. If you do not know who your Representative is or do not have your Representative's contact information, you can find it here: www.legis.delaware.gov (under "Who is My Legislator?")
Talking Points:
- The Primary Care Reform Collaborative has been working for three years to discuss how to make sure Delaware’s Primary Care system is preserved. All the data supports the fact that Primary Care is underfunded in Delaware. Further, all parties on the Collaborative agree that Primary Care needs to be saved. However, no consensus was reached at the Collaborative.
- Patients are losing access to care because too many Primary Care Physicians are retiring early, leaving the state, or changing to concierge medicine. Further, almost no new Primary Care Physicians are choosing to practice in Delaware.
- Legislation is needed now. That legislation is Senate Substitute 1 for Senate Bill 120 and we ask for your support of the bill.
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Testimony was provided by MSD to the Senate Finance Committee this past May in support of Senate Substitute 1 for Senate Bill 120.