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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!
# 27,800:
8:51 am PDT, May 11,
Aaeron Robb, Maryland
# 27,799:
8:50 am PDT, May 11,
Jenni Ledford, North Carolina
These people deserve a little kindness most of them served this country before you or I were even born! Have a heart. THEY TRIED TO MAKE THIS A BETTER PLACE before we can along and screwed it up. If we don't take care of our own what do you think the other countries will think of us.
These people deserve a little kindness most of them served this country before you or I were even born! Have a heart. THEY TRIED TO MAKE THIS A BETTER PLACE before we can along and screwed it up. If we don't take care of our own what do you think the other countries will think of us.
# 27,798:
8:27 am PDT, May 11,
Donna A., California
Do not cut health care on old people. I want old people are happy if full cover health care. Look at France, Germany and Itay are good health care for all old people. What is hell about USA?????? Make USA looks bad! Shame on you for cut heatlh care for old people and disable people. Stop that. NO MORE war for Iraq. Period! Please please care for old people and diasble people very very very important and help old people and disable people feel better. PLEASE God is watching on you if you cut health care off for no reason. I want you bless old people and bless disable people then God is watching on you. Very fear to God.
Do not cut health care on old people. I want old people are happy if full cover health care. Look at France, Germany and Itay are good health care for all old people. What is hell about USA?????? Make USA looks bad! Shame on you for cut heatlh care for old people and disable people. Stop that. NO MORE war for Iraq. Period! Please please care for old people and diasble people very very very important and help old people and disable people feel better. PLEASE God is watching on you if you cut health care off for no reason. I want you bless old people and bless disable people then God is watching on you. Very fear to God.
# 27,797:
8:10 am PDT, May 11,
Christine Griffin, Canada
# 27,796:
8:06 am PDT, May 11,
Megan Marcoux, Michigan
# 27,795:
7:35 am PDT, May 11,
Hank Mirsky, New Mexico
# 27,794:
5:03 am PDT, May 11,
Kristina Monroe, Michigan
# 27,793:
12:21 am PDT, May 11,
Heidi Wessel, Florida
# 27,792:
11:38 pm PDT, May 10,
Quick Silver, California
# 27,791:
8:39 pm PDT, May 10,
Elizabeth Even, California
# 27,790:
8:32 pm PDT, May 10,
James A. D'Apollonia, New York
# 27,789:
8:02 pm PDT, May 10,
Glorimar Santiago, California
# 27,788:
7:02 pm PDT, May 10,
Raelin M Hansen, North Carolina
My mother is an elderly person! We all have elderly people in our lives whom we love, and no elderly person should be treated like they'e disposable. Not providing adequate health care is in essence treating the elderly like they are disposable, in my opinion.
My mother is an elderly person! We all have elderly people in our lives whom we love, and no elderly person should be treated like they'e disposable. Not providing adequate health care is in essence treating the elderly like they are disposable, in my opinion.
# 27,787:
5:59 pm PDT, May 10,
Christina Fermin, Florida
# 27,786:
5:53 pm PDT, May 10,
Robert Knowles, Tennessee
# 27,785:
5:04 pm PDT, May 10,
David McGlocklin, California
# 27,784:
4:05 pm PDT, May 10,
James Hibbard, Massachusetts
# 27,783:
2:04 pm PDT, May 10,
ROCHELLE BASIL, Canada
# 27,782:
2:01 pm PDT, May 10,
Nick Lesseos, California
# 27,781:
1:49 pm PDT, May 10,
Carol Knapp, Oregon
I have been working since I was 18 years old with only a two year break, one to take care of my son who was 12, the other when I was laid off at 50 years of age. I have had a very difficult time getting the same wage as I had at my previous job, and am struggling to make ends meet at 53. Now I hear that all the years I have been promised to be taken care of when I am of retirement age have just been a lie. I have paid into social security my whole life and I never wanted to, but with the understanding that it was important to be taken care of properly when I could not longer work. I am very upset about this as this is the one thing that American workers have going for them is the guarantee that they will be taken care of in the winter of their lives. Will America sell us short again or will the American promise be kept alive?
I have been working since I was 18 years old with only a two year break, one to take care of my son who was 12, the other when I was laid off at 50 years of age. I have had a very difficult time getting the same wage as I had at my previous job, and am struggling to make ends meet at 53. Now I hear that all the years I have been promised to be taken care of when I am of retirement age have just been a lie. I have paid into social security my whole life and I never wanted to, but with the understanding that it was important to be taken care of properly when I could not longer work. I am very upset about this as this is the one thing that American workers have going for them is the guarantee that they will be taken care of in the winter of their lives. Will America sell us short again or will the American promise be kept alive?
# 27,779:
12:38 pm PDT, May 10,
Rose Parker, California
# 27,778:
12:12 pm PDT, May 10,
Bonnie Reed, Washington
# 27,777:
11:43 am PDT, May 10,
Ashley Avila, California
# 27,776:
11:14 am PDT, May 10,
April Moss, Arkansas
# 27,775:
10:53 am PDT, May 10,
Matthew James, Pennsylvania
# 27,774:
10:15 am PDT, May 10,
Sally Tyger, Texas
My tax dollars pay for your gold plated health insurance, why can't my tax dollars pay for everyone else's? Less than 60% of the public is without a public viable health plan like yours. Why won't you supply me with what you have?
My tax dollars pay for your gold plated health insurance, why can't my tax dollars pay for everyone else's? Less than 60% of the public is without a public viable health plan like yours. Why won't you supply me with what you have?
# 27,773:
10:05 am PDT, May 10,
Remy Sherman, Colorado
# 27,772:
9:53 am PDT, May 10,
Billie Raczkowski, California
# 27,771:
9:16 am PDT, May 10,
Name not displayed, Arizona
# 27,770:
8:52 am PDT, May 10,
MILAN KOTHARI, United Kingdom
health care for the elderly is very important they should not be pushed on one side and be ignored and foregoten we are all heading in the same direction the government is doing all these stupid things by increasing medicine and other things to how is the elderly people going to afford these things they need our help and secondly they more vunrable to youngsters on the streets because old people get beaten up and kicked in and there belongings get stolen then police start asking stupid questions to the old people they need serious caring.
health care for the elderly is very important they should not be pushed on one side and be ignored and foregoten we are all heading in the same direction the government is doing all these stupid things by increasing medicine and other things to how is the elderly people going to afford these things they need our help and secondly they more vunrable to youngsters on the streets because old people get beaten up and kicked in and there belongings get stolen then police start asking stupid questions to the old people they need serious caring.
# 27,769:
8:44 am PDT, May 10,
Elza Eggens, Netherlands
# 27,768:
8:35 am PDT, May 10,
Saulo Bayas, New York
# 27,767:
8:01 am PDT, May 10,
Maike Schlüpmann, Germany
# 27,766:
7:53 am PDT, May 10,
Name not displayed, Texas
Why should we spend billions of dollars rebuilding IRAQ when we need to take care of our people first!
Why should we spend billions of dollars rebuilding IRAQ when we need to take care of our people first!
# 27,765:
6:55 am PDT, May 10,
Kurt Vosmera, Colorado
# 27,764:
6:45 am PDT, May 10,
Angie Mendenhall, Utah
# 27,763:
5:31 am PDT, May 10,
Scott Tyson, Pennsylvania
# 27,762:
3:44 am PDT, May 10,
Name not displayed, California
# 27,761:
2:23 am PDT, May 10,
Lindsey Lampe, Montana
This is ridiculous! There is absolutelyno reason why we are wasting billions on areas that we shouldn't be and ANYONE in this country gets denied they're proper medical care. Absolutely inexcusable!!
This is ridiculous! There is absolutelyno reason why we are wasting billions on areas that we shouldn't be and ANYONE in this country gets denied they're proper medical care. Absolutely inexcusable!!
# 27,760:
11:37 pm PDT, May 9,
Nicholas Schafer, California
# 27,759:
9:50 pm PDT, May 9,
Nancy Bates, Texas
# 27,758:
9:22 pm PDT, May 9,
Nancy Head, New York
I already have medicare being disabled. Since the cut backs that have already happened quality of care has dropped drastically. Any more cuts will make it harder if not impossible to receive proper care and medications. Stop the cuts!!!
I already have medicare being disabled. Since the cut backs that have already happened quality of care has dropped drastically. Any more cuts will make it harder if not impossible to receive proper care and medications. Stop the cuts!!!
# 27,757:
8:44 pm PDT, May 9,
Frank Roozendaal, Netherlands
# 27,756:
8:39 pm PDT, May 9,
Stacy Johnson, Missouri
# 27,755:
7:56 pm PDT, May 9,
Patricia Pigman, California
# 27,754:
7:39 pm PDT, May 9,
Harrison P Bertram, Illinois
# 27,753:
7:31 pm PDT, May 9,
Kathleen Boswell, California
The elderly on such a fixed income they forgo care and doctors in order to keep the heat on and food on the table. Please assist the seniors!!!
The elderly on such a fixed income they forgo care and doctors in order to keep the heat on and food on the table. Please assist the seniors!!!
# 27,752:
7:14 pm PDT, May 9,
Name not displayed, Canada
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# 27,751:
6:46 pm PDT, May 9,
Name not displayed, California
Congress needs to live up to its responsibility to take care of the America people.
Congress needs to live up to its responsibility to take care of the America people.