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Good news: Congress has extended Telehealth until January 31,2026 as part of a deal to end the government shutdown.This is not a permanent solution. So, we must continue to put pressure on Congress to make telehealth for Medicare permanent. Join #MEAction in putting pressure on Congress to make Telehealth for Medicare permanent! Call your Member now using our call script, and tell Congress to stop messing around with your healthcare!For people with ME and Long COVID, Teleheal

The launch of the Minnesota Home Help Navigation Program is proof that advocacy works.

With the Minnesota Home Help Navigation Program now underway, here’s an inside look at the strategic choices in our patient-led playbook.

The sole Long COVID clinic of North Carolina closed last week after its federal funding ran out.

The Minnesota Department of Health's Long COVID program has been saved from elimination!

Sick and disabled people are protesting today, Monday, May 12th at the Capitol to tell Congress that forcing chronically ill people to work in order to keep their Medicaid healthcare will only make our country sicker and more reliant on government services. 

We cannot allow our elected officials to harm chronically ill and disabled people with rampant cuts. This is yet another SOS moment for people in our community.

Share this message about #MillionsMissing with your own networks.

#MEAction Scotland will be outside Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh on Wednesday 14th May, from 12–2pm, calling on the Scottish Government to act on its promises.

#MEAction has been hard at work connecting individuals to their elected officials to talk about the ME/CFS Research Roadmap, Medicaid, and telehealth.

It’s time to send out our SOS signal if we want to have funded research.

On May 12th, we're sending out an SOS to Congress to Save our Support Systems, our Science, and our Society.

#MEAction is excited to announce we are partnering with the Writers Guild Initiative again to offer creative writing workshops for people with ME and Long COVID!

Stuart Murdoch (Belle and Sabastian) will be interviewed by #MEAction Minnesota’s leader, Terri L Wilder, about his recently released novel, Nobody’s Empire.

For #MillionsMissing 2025, #MEAction is sending out an SOS.

The White House has abruptly announced that it is terminating funding for NIH RECOVER grants studying Long COVID, effectively stopping 45 studies that were almost complete.

Read the statement from Ian Simon, the head of the Long COVID Office at Department of Health and Human Services.

Today is Long COVID Awareness day, and we want to lift up the importance of Long COVID advocacy. We ask you to share this video created by #MEAction volunteers today.

Why I joined more than 1,000 protesters at a Stand Up for Science rally in Madison, WI to fight for the funding of critical science.

#MEAction and PLRC delivered a letter to HHS Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. this past week, calling for him to reinstate the Long COVID Advisory Committee.