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TENNCARE CHANGES

The Memphis Center for Independent Living will host a meeting and breakout sessions to discuss the upcoming radical changes to TennCare and provide means to get involved, for dealing with those changes. Please join us on: MCIL The Memphis Center for Independent Living

Thursday, February 10, 2005
10:00 am – 3:00 pm
Memphis Center for Independent Living
1633 Madison Avenue, Memphis

10:00 – 12:00 Town Hall Meeting
What will happen to Tennessee’s residents on TennCare, changes in Medicaid coverage, including pharmacy limits, strategies for dealing with these changes and more!

There will be several speakers that day, including Tony Garr with the Tennessee Health Care Campaign will discuss the changes. Randy Alexander with the Memphis Center for Independent Living will talk about strategies to become involved, for surviving these changes and more.

12:00 – 1:00 Brown Bag Lunch
Bring your own lunch. During the break we will discuss strategies on how to get involved.

1:00 – 3:00 Breakout Sessions
We will break into groups to organize, write letters etc,.

COME FOR ONE OR ALL THREE SESSIONS

Over 323,000 people will be cut from the TennCare rolls in April.
Those who remain, will have their benefits drastically reduced!
Find out how these cuts may affect you!

To reserve a seat, please call (901) 726-6404 or email Randy at Randy@mcil.org.

Free Our People!
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Randy Alexander
1633 Madison Avenue
Memphis TN 38104
(901) 726-6404

MCIL Journal Index 2005

Follow the TennCare Sit-in

Date	Name
12/31/2005	MCIL and System Advocacy in 2005
12/19/2005	Breaking TennCare to Fix It.
12/7/2005	Tennessee Citizens Against AIDS Demands Full Funding of Global AIDS Fund.
11/24/2005	Bredespin Administration denies withholding information.
11/17/2005	My First National ADAPT ACTION! By Louis Patrick.
11/4/2005	MCIL's Annual Holiday Open House and Silent Auction.
10/31/2005	Women and Seniors: Have You Taken Lipitor?
10/28/2005	Salt Lake City to get accessible taxicabs.
10/22/2005	MCIL: 20 years of kicking ass.
10/7/2005	Letter to Bredesen Shows Disenrollment Unnecessary.
9/29/2005	How Gonzales v. Oregon impacts people with disabilities.
9/27/2005	"Hey Bredesen We Want Medicine," Greets Tennessee Governor at $1000 a Plate Fund Raiser.
9/21/2005	ADAPT Accentuates the Weeks Message, Makes Demands on the NGA.
9/20/2005	The Disability Community will not be overlooked, or left behind.
9/19/2005	Angry Activists Arrested on Capitol Hill.
9/18/2005	Don't Target People with Disabilities.
8/22/2005	Safety Net is a Sham.
8/15/2005	Bredespin: Saving TennCare.
8/2/2005	Bredespin.
7/30/2005	Tennessee Needs Money Follows the Person.
7/26/2005	MCIL Timeline of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
7/23/2005	Six lies of Governor Bredesen, Part Two.
7/22/2005	Six lies of Governor Bredesen, Part One.
7/17/2005	Bredesen’s Plan Costly to Tennessee.
7/8/2005	Bredesen’s Drug Cap Violates the ADA.
7/4/2005	An Authentic American Demonstration.
6/21/2005	Activists Takeover Gov. Bredesen's Office.
6/18/2005	Concern over the governors statement.
6/16/2005	Governor Bredesen Issues Life Sentences to Vent Users.
6/8/2005	SCLC joins the struggle to secure TennCare.
5/25/2005	Center City Commission Can't Commit to Civil Rights.
5/18/2005	City's New Gazebo: A Symbol of Segregation.
5/15/2005	Section 8 Voucher Proposal Closes the Door on People with Disabilities.
5/2/2005	MEMPHIS - Rally in Support of TennCare.
4/25/2005	ADAPT Challenges Democrats to End Medicaid Institutional Bias.
4/19/2005	Changes coming to your Center for Independent Living?.
4/11/2005	Spring Spaghetti Supper Supreme.
4/5/2005	2ND Annual Free Yo Momma Day!
3/28/2005	ADAPT takes over Charlotte Avenue in downtown Nashville.
3/23/2005	Facts About Long Term Care in Tennessee
3/19/2005	USDOJ: Memphis Builders and Designers Settle Discrimination Lawsuit.
3/13/2005	State Policy Unjustly Institutionalizes Thousands
3/11/2005	The Money Follows the Person bill has been introduced by Senator Tom Harkin
3/2/2005	Anatomy of an ADAPT Action By Tim Wheat
3/1/2005	NOTICE TO POTENTIAL AGGRIEVED PERSONS
2/21/2005	YOUR VOICE IS IMPORTANT!
2/20/2005	Medicaid: A Time to Act by Mike Leavitt, Secretary of HHS
2/12/2005	Home is Where the Heart Is!
2/8/2005	Opposition to MiCASSA
1/31/2005	TENNCARE CHANGES
1/22/2005	Your State: Institutional versus Community expenditures.
1/11/2005	Call the Governor Today!
1/5/2005	Not Dead Yet Challenges Movie Critics, Eastwood

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