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Baby Boomers Set to Lose Medicare Services! Sign the Letter to Congress
Target: U.S. CongressSponsored by: American Medical Association Patients' Action Netw
With over 3.2 million baby boomers becoming eligible for Medicare by 2010, doctor payment cuts will create a medical care crisis for America’s seniors! Congress made a solemn promise to America's seniors to supply more affordable medical care, but now they’re limiting seniors’ access to doctors, making it harder for them to get the care they need. If we don't act soon, older Americans will have a harder time finding medical and surgical specialists, and have to travel farther to see them. More Medicare patients will be forced go to expensive emergency rooms - not a doctor’s office - for routine care. And doctors will not be able to purchase new medical equipment and information technology. Urge your Senators to make good on their promise to older adults by saying no to Medicare pay cuts.
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We signed the “Baby Boomers Set to Lose Medicare Services! Sign the Letter to Congress” petition!
# 250:
4:19 am PST, Nov 22,
Steve Dale, Australia
# 249:
4:05 am PST, Nov 22,
Name not displayed, New York
# 248:
3:59 am PST, Nov 22,
Holly Swint, Florida
# 247:
3:55 am PST, Nov 22,
Lisa Swift, California
Please help us, the elderly and the disabled keep our access to doctors who can best care for our ailments. If the doctors in my locale drop out of Medicare, I will have to go between 40 and 60 miles to visit a specialist, and as a disabled person, I need access to several specialists.
Please help us, the elderly and the disabled keep our access to doctors who can best care for our ailments. If the doctors in my locale drop out of Medicare, I will have to go between 40 and 60 miles to visit a specialist, and as a disabled person, I need access to several specialists.
# 246:
3:38 am PST, Nov 22,
Bobbie Kelsten, North Carolina
# 245:
2:47 am PST, Nov 22,
Gloria Torres, Puerto Rico
# 244:
2:46 am PST, Nov 22,
Linda Nottingham, Maryland
# 243:
2:46 am PST, Nov 22,
Donna Baker, Idaho
# 242:
2:13 am PST, Nov 22,
Sue Bennett, Louisiana
# 241:
1:46 am PST, Nov 22,
Name not displayed, Wisconsin
# 240:
12:54 am PST, Nov 22,
Carolyn Leath-Watson, Canada
# 239:
12:50 am PST, Nov 22,
Dubrovsky Timur, Russian Federation
# 238:
12:36 am PST, Nov 22,
Panagiotis Rigopoulos, Greece
# 237:
12:24 am PST, Nov 22,
Diana Dellamarie, California
In 15 years when I reach 65, I will have been paying into the system for 50 years. Need I say more?
In 15 years when I reach 65, I will have been paying into the system for 50 years. Need I say more?
# 236:
11:47 pm PST, Nov 21,
Brenda Jones, North Carolina
Health care is too important to let it go down the drain! I think my taxes could be better spent on finding a way out of this situation instead of billions of dollars being ( in my opinion) wasted on some other government programs.
Health care is too important to let it go down the drain! I think my taxes could be better spent on finding a way out of this situation instead of billions of dollars being ( in my opinion) wasted on some other government programs.
# 235:
11:13 pm PST, Nov 21,
Denise Lytle, New Jersey
# 234:
10:30 pm PST, Nov 21,
Bonnie Robinson, Oregon
# 233:
10:26 pm PST, Nov 21,
Janet Kologe, Pennsylvania
# 232:
10:15 pm PST, Nov 21,
Joyce Lodato, Nevada
# 231:
9:58 pm PST, Nov 21,
Janene Waller, Oregon
# 230:
9:26 pm PST, Nov 21,
Robert New, Vermont
# 229:
9:05 pm PST, Nov 21,
Debra Havill, Indiana
# 228:
8:45 pm PST, Nov 21,
Ruthann Sherman, North Carolina
# 227:
8:29 pm PST, Nov 21,
J. Martinez, New York
Congress should be engaged in finding lasting solutions for healthcare for all our citizens. Cutting payments to Medicare is not a step in that direction. It is interesting to note that members of Congress are the beneficiaries of a subsidized healthcare system which is never the subject of cuts, either monetary or service oriented. Prevention and early intervention should be the backbone of our healthcare system. By creating situations which make it more difficult to access care, we wind up paying more in the long run. It's simple to understand really, minor medical problems become chronic, chronic medical problems become life threatening. One thing us "Baby Boomers" understand is that not everything is black and white, but life isn't as complicated as some people would like us to think.
Congress should be engaged in finding lasting solutions for healthcare for all our citizens. Cutting payments to Medicare is not a step in that direction. It is interesting to note that members of Congress are the beneficiaries of a subsidized healthcare system which is never the subject of cuts, either monetary or service oriented. Prevention and early intervention should be the backbone of our healthcare system. By creating situations which make it more difficult to access care, we wind up paying more in the long run. It's simple to understand really, minor medical problems become chronic, chronic medical problems become life threatening. One thing us "Baby Boomers" understand is that not everything is black and white, but life isn't as complicated as some people would like us to think.
# 226:
8:08 pm PST, Nov 21,
Eva Eberhardt-Cohen, California
# 225:
7:51 pm PST, Nov 21,
Lynn Knaub, Pennsylvania
# 224:
7:22 pm PST, Nov 21,
Renee Kida, Japan
I am living in Japan currently, but I am registered to vote in New Mexico where I have family, as well as family in Chicago and California. This is a HUGE issue and as an American citizen I think it needs to be addressed immediately. In the rest of the modern world, the state of US Medical care and insurance is an embarrassment.
I am living in Japan currently, but I am registered to vote in New Mexico where I have family, as well as family in Chicago and California. This is a HUGE issue and as an American citizen I think it needs to be addressed immediately. In the rest of the modern world, the state of US Medical care and insurance is an embarrassment.
# 223:
7:15 pm PST, Nov 21,
Robert Treichel Sr, Connecticut
I have been paying Socail Security since I was 14. I will never live long enough to collect all the money I had put into this government account. If you had put all the money you had taken out of my pay checks, I could have retired 15 years ago. Instead, you take and take from us. Why don't you take those in high Government offices and put them on the same Social Security instead of their pay checks after retiring. I bet then the problem with Social Security would get fixed really fast....
I have been paying Socail Security since I was 14. I will never live long enough to collect all the money I had put into this government account. If you had put all the money you had taken out of my pay checks, I could have retired 15 years ago. Instead, you take and take from us. Why don't you take those in high Government offices and put them on the same Social Security instead of their pay checks after retiring. I bet then the problem with Social Security would get fixed really fast....
# 222:
7:15 pm PST, Nov 21,
Name not displayed, Pennsylvania
# 221:
7:03 pm PST, Nov 21,
Mary Ann Reed, Florida
It has been the American way until now that people knew if they worked hard and contributed to social security and medicare they would have medical insurance not jut medical insurance but good medical insurance. That's what they deserve. I see my father who worked all his life and expected to have enough health coverage having his saving eaten away at right now. I think it is a damn shame. He worries all the time. Is this what is going to happen in this country to seniors, the diabled and children??? My father also served durng WWII. For eight years he risked his life for this country. I think evevry American who works and contribute should have medical coverage and those who can't or children are a top priority, too. Or is it one day when a Senior citizen gets sick they give him very little care because he has too many problems and let him die. That's how I feel my mother who died was treated because she was a senior on hmo medicare plan.
It has been the American way until now that people knew if they worked hard and contributed to social security and medicare they would have medical insurance not jut medical insurance but good medical insurance. That's what they deserve. I see my father who worked all his life and expected to have enough health coverage having his saving eaten away at right now. I think it is a damn shame. He worries all the time. Is this what is going to happen in this country to seniors, the diabled and children??? My father also served durng WWII. For eight years he risked his life for this country. I think evevry American who works and contribute should have medical coverage and those who can't or children are a top priority, too. Or is it one day when a Senior citizen gets sick they give him very little care because he has too many problems and let him die. That's how I feel my mother who died was treated because she was a senior on hmo medicare plan.
# 220:
7:00 pm PST, Nov 21,
Kevin Dohse, Wisconsin
All our lives we have paid into social security and taxes, if the government had invested this money instead of robbing it and spending if for thier own self interest there would be no problem.
All our lives we have paid into social security and taxes, if the government had invested this money instead of robbing it and spending if for thier own self interest there would be no problem.
# 219:
6:41 pm PST, Nov 21,
Cassandra Hussey, New Jersey
I have worked hard all my life and paid a lot of money into the system that I will never see back. Now that I'm nearing retirement I don't want to spend the rest of my life worrying about how I'll be able to pay for a doctor or medicine if I need it!
I have worked hard all my life and paid a lot of money into the system that I will never see back. Now that I'm nearing retirement I don't want to spend the rest of my life worrying about how I'll be able to pay for a doctor or medicine if I need it!
# 218:
5:34 pm PST, Nov 21,
Cheryl Atwell, Illinois
They worked and paid their taxes. Seniors and children should be a priority in this country's health care.
They worked and paid their taxes. Seniors and children should be a priority in this country's health care.
# 217:
5:05 pm PST, Nov 21,
Kerry Lanaux, Louisiana
They have worked hard all their lives and the government has taken a good bit of their money over the years. You've taken our money with promises attached. Keep the promise and stop giving our money to those who don't belong here. Remember you work for us.
They have worked hard all their lives and the government has taken a good bit of their money over the years. You've taken our money with promises attached. Keep the promise and stop giving our money to those who don't belong here. Remember you work for us.
# 216:
4:39 pm PST, Nov 21,
Eleanor Kania, Florida
# 215:
4:37 pm PST, Nov 21,
Edith Feather, Florida
# 214:
4:37 pm PST, Nov 21,
Kathleen A.H., Arizona
# 213:
4:22 pm PST, Nov 21,
Terri McLaughlin, Florida
# 212:
2:46 pm PST, Nov 21,
Danielle Labrecque, California
# 211:
2:28 pm PST, Nov 21,
Kimberly Beard, California
# 210:
1:41 pm PST, Nov 21,
Alicia Ruiz Cantú, Mexico
# 209:
1:36 pm PST, Nov 21,
Nicole Hardin, Alabama
# 208:
1:26 pm PST, Nov 21,
Dorothy Carswell, Georgia
# 207:
1:24 pm PST, Nov 21,
Catherine Smalley, United Kingdom
# 206:
1:18 pm PST, Nov 21,
Name not displayed, Idaho
The "babyboomers" have contributed substantially to social security, healthcare, medicare, etc. and in their time of need should not be punished for that contribution. The last generation was well cared for in part because of the influx of millions of dollars contributed by the "babyboomers" who weren't afraid to work hard for a living. Let the "babyboomers" now reap what they have sown instead of jeopardizing their health care.
The "babyboomers" have contributed substantially to social security, healthcare, medicare, etc. and in their time of need should not be punished for that contribution. The last generation was well cared for in part because of the influx of millions of dollars contributed by the "babyboomers" who weren't afraid to work hard for a living. Let the "babyboomers" now reap what they have sown instead of jeopardizing their health care.
# 205:
1:15 pm PST, Nov 21,
Camelia Pralea, Romania
# 204:
1:10 pm PST, Nov 21,
Name not displayed, Nevada
# 203:
1:02 pm PST, Nov 21,
Suzanne Brantley, Florida
It breaks the government's promise and contract to use their social security money they paid for thirty years, and the government should not go back on its word.
It breaks the government's promise and contract to use their social security money they paid for thirty years, and the government should not go back on its word.
# 202:
12:58 pm PST, Nov 21,
Kit Chang, Massachusetts
# 201:
12:27 pm PST, Nov 21,
Chris Edwards, California
In other nations the elderly receive the respect they deserve for having offered a life of service or work. Senior citizens who have been productive members of society should be able to expect the same. Today, the elderly are worried about aging and the ailments that come with it. If we are lucky, we are all going to be there one day. So, let's plan for it and treat our own with respect.
In other nations the elderly receive the respect they deserve for having offered a life of service or work. Senior citizens who have been productive members of society should be able to expect the same. Today, the elderly are worried about aging and the ailments that come with it. If we are lucky, we are all going to be there one day. So, let's plan for it and treat our own with respect.