A Letter to Your Legislator Homework

Craft a letter to one of your legislators. You may choose to write a letter to your State Senator or House Representative for your district.

Letter to Your Legislator

Instructions

Craft a letter to one of your legislators. You may choose to write a letter to your State Senator or House Representative for your district. Keep your letters to legislators that are elected on the Federal level and serve you in Washington, DC. If you do not know who your local senator or representative is, check the Supplemental Resources for the legislator search link.

In your letter tell your legislator what you think may be effective mechanisms for controlling health care costs. You may wish to review the measures of the Affordable Care Act as a basis for your letter.

Point out at least one health cost-control measure that you believe this legislator should advocate for in the next legislative year. (For example, you may want to advocate for expanding value-based purchasing, or eliminate utilization review procedures for Medicaid, or create disease registries to track chronic illnesses).    Your letter should include an introduction, a body of one to two paragraphs, and a concluding paragraph. Write a letter that you would be proud to mail or email your legislator. Do use a letter template or letter format for this assignment.

Citations are not needed.    Review the information in the Supplemental Resources to find your own state legislator and to review information on how to write a professional letter.

This is the official website to look up who represents you as a state representative in Congress.

 

United States House of Representatives. (n.d.). Find your representative.  Retrieved from http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/

This is the official website to locate your State Senator and their mailing address.

United States Senate. (n.d.). Senators of the 114th Congress. Retrieved from http://www.senate.gov/senators/contact/This is an Online Writing Lab at Purdue (OWL at Purdue) link on how to write a professional letter. There is a sample letter and important tips to consider when creating your own professional letters.

Purdue Online Writing Lab. (n.d.). Sample letters. Retrieved from https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/subject_specific_writing/professional_technical_writing/basic_business_letters/sample_letters.html

This resource contains many different benchmark laws that have impacted health care. This is a useful resource for the Mid Term Assignment.

Sultz, H.A. & Young, K.M. (2015). Healthcare USA. Burlington, MA: Jones & Barlett Publishers. Retrieved from http://samples.jbpub.com/9781284120233/Chapter2.pdf

The Senator for Ga is Thomas Jonathan Ossoff is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from Georgia since 2021.

A member of the Democratic Party, Ossoff was previously a documentary film producer and investigative journalist and Raphael Gamaliel Warnock is an American pastor and politician serving as the junior United States senator from Georgia since 2021.

A member of the Democratic Party, he assumed office on January 20, 2021.