ACTION ALERT - Call TODAY to save GAMC!

On December 7th (TODAY), Minnesotans across the state will be calling their State Legislators to demonstrate their support for General Assistance Medical Care (GAMC). Please join us!
 
Tell your State Representative that you are concerned about the elimination of funding for General Assistance Medical Care (GAMC).  Let them know you’re willing to pay increased taxes to ensure health care coverage for low-income Minnesotans. Find your Representive.

General Assistance Medical Care (GAMC) is Minnesota’s health care program for extremely low-income single adults.  In a single year, 80,000 Minnesotans enroll in GAMC – with 35,000 being on the program at any given time.  Department of Human Services Commissioner Cal Ludeman has described enrollees of GAMC as “the poorest of the poor and the sickest of the sick”.
 
On March 1st, all funding for General Assistance Medical Care (GAMC) will be eliminated.  Hospitals across the state are bracing to lose well over $100 million per year in uncompensated care, hundreds of health care workers will lose their jobs, some counties have already discussed the need to increase property taxes to brace for the impact, and costs will be shifted to private insurance holders.
 
Minnesota has invested in GAMC for the past 35 years.  Eliminating this program will hurt our communities and put already vulnerable people at risk.  An economic downturn is not the time to pull the plug on this critical safety net program.

Together, we can save GAMC – but we need you to act today!