MAP Advocate
May 2, 2007
Vol. 13. No. 16
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In This Issue:
- Minnesota Update: Contact Conference Committee Members to Support the MAP AIDSLine
- Minnesota Update: Contact Conference Committee Members to Support Comprehensive Sex Education
- Federal Update: Congressman Ellison Signs onto TrOOP Legislation
- Announcement: Advocate With Your Feet at the Minnesota AIDS Walk
- Announcement: Extreme Makeover Home Edition Featuring a Camp Heartland Family
Minnesota Update: Contact Conference Committee Members to Support the MAP AIDSLine
Support Funding for the AIDSLine
TAKE ACTION: Contact the Health and Human Services Conference Committee Members Today!
The Health and Human Services Conference Committee will decide whether or not to include funding for the AIDSLine in the final Health Omnibus bill. This bill will be sent to Governor Pawlenty. Call the conference committee members and ask them to support the full funding for the AIDSLine. Please note if you are a constituent of the legislator you are contacting.
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Minnesota Update: Contact Conference Committee Members to Support Comprehensive Sex Education
Support Comprehensive Sex Education
TAKE ACTION: Contact the K-12 Conference Committee Members Today!
The Education K-12 Conference Committee will decide whether or not to include comprehensive sex education in the final version of the Education Omnibus bill. This bill will be sent to Governor Pawlenty. Please contact the Education Conference Committee members today and ask them to support comprehensive sex education.
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The Sex Ed for Life Coalition, which MAP co-convenes with the Minnesota Organization on Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention and Parenting (MOAPPP), is advancing this legislation.
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Federal Update: Congressman Ellison Signs onto TrOOP Legislation
Legislation has been introduced to allow Medicare Part D-related costs incurred by the federally funded AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) to count toward a beneficiary’s True Out-of-Pocket Costs (TrOOP) expenses, ensuring that all Part D enrollees are permitted appropriate access to the catastrophic coverage. Congressman Keith Ellison (D-MN) has signed onto this legislation.
Under current law, costs incurred by AIDS Drug Assistance Programs on behalf of Medicare Part D enrollees during their coverage gap (i.e. while the enrollee is in the so-called “doughnut hole” and is responsible for 100 percent of their drug costs) are not permitted to count for TrOOP purposes. In turn, many individuals with HIV are never able to ever reach the catastrophic limit (the point at which Medicare would pay 95 percent of the beneficiary’s drug costs). As a result, these beneficiaries are forced to pay premiums to their Medicare drug plan and to absorb the monthly drug costs for a benefit they are not able to access.
Click here to contact Congressman Ellison and thank him for his support!
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Announcement: Advocate With Your Feet at the Minnesota AIDS Walk
Join the Fight to Stop HIV!
We are excited to invite you to join us for the 20th Minnesota AIDS Walk, presented by ING. Go online now to register.
On May 20, thousands of people will come together at Minnehaha Park in Minneapolis, raising vital funds to stop HIV in Minnesota. Funds raised from the Minnesota AIDS Walk help support MAP’s public policy program. Begin your experience as an individual walker, team member, junior walker or volunteer by registering now!
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Announcement: Extreme Makeover Home Edition Featuring a Camp Heartland Family
On Sunday May 20, the ABC network will feature a Camp Heartland family on Extreme Makeover Home Edition’s Season Finale. The Oatman-Gaitan's family is a member of the Camp Heartland family that will be featured. Camp Heartland is a national non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of children, youth and their families facing HIV/AIDS, poverty, grief and other painful life challenges. The episode on May 20, 2007 on ABC will start at 6pm.
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