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State Budget Priorities

• Protect and preserve funding health care services for low-income individuals - Basic Health
• Plan, Disability Lifeline - Medical, Apple Health for Kids
• Protect and preserve Volunteer Retired Providers funding
• Protect and preserve Interpreter Services funding
• Protect and preserve Maternity Support Services

State Policy Priorities

• Implement Federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
• Promote Tobacco / Drug Stewardship
• Limit access to tanning beds for children under the age of 16
• Clarify Medical Assistants Scope of Practice
• Clarify Medicaid patient access to care (HCA non-emergent ED issue)
• Improve the supply of critically-needed physicians, particularly primary care, general surgery, and mental health services to serve Washington citizens
• Focus Patient Centered Medical Home Collaborative, Accountable Care Organizations and other practice transformation initiatives on the need to maintain a primary care focus with patients’ interests prioritized
• Focus federal program funds on initiatives or programs that will improve patients’ access to primary care and improves patient health outcomes
• Support efforts that will expand vaccination compliance in Washington State. Work to ensure well-informed consent of patients before exempting themselves, or their children from immunization
• Monitor hospital growth and health care related capital construction