Health Care

Healthcare and the Senate 2009-11 proposed budget:

Seniors, children, low and middle income and disabled individuals receiving publicly purchased health care: 1 million

Increase demand since 2005 in the number of people who rely on Washington’s Basic Health Plan for their medical coverage:  4,550

Working class people who will lose medical coverage under a proposed 42 percent reduction to the Basic Health Plan: 38,000

Number of client slots that receive some state-funded aging or disability services in 2007: 106,000

Amount nursing homes are cut from current levels in the Senate budget: 4 percent

Amount in-home care is cut from maintenance level in the Senate budget: 3 percent

Number of people who receive Medicaid in Washington: 950,000

Amount cut from state reimbursement to Medicaid providers (doctor’s office’s, clinics, hospitals) in the Senate budget: 3 percent

Amount cut from community Medicaid mental health services in the Senate budget: 3.5 percent

Medicaid mental health client services slots used each per month: 41,400

Amount cut from state-only mental health funding in the Senate budget: 9 percent

State-only mental health client slots used each month: 6,600

Number of vaccinations which will lose state funding in July 2009: 3

Cuts to family planning in the Senate budget: $1 million

Amount cut in the Senate budget from tobacco prevention awareness campaign, including television and radio advertisement to promote awareness of the harmful effects of tobacco:  28 percent

Date the public-private partnership to promote small employers participation in funding health insurance for their employees will be delayed until:  2011