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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!
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3:11 pm PDT, May 13,
John H. Pieper, Minnesota
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My wife and I already have no health insurance for ourselves while we care for our aged mothers on medicare. We certainly will need some kind of coverage for ourselves as we age.
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These are PASSIVE ways to encourage the neglect and treatment of those that need it the most - the elderly and infirm. Please, see the bigger picture, join the more "evolved" thinking of the 21st century, and make sure healthcare is easy and accesible to all! Thank you in advance for your consdieration.
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Medicare is important for the elderly to keep them as healthy as possible.
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I am a baby boomer on Medicare and it is difficult enough to afford things as it is. Social Security and Medicare need to be funded not cut so George can start another war. Funny how he can find money for war. It makes no sense.
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This includes my parents, and neither my brother nor I can afford to make up the difference.
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Everyone deserves the best possible health care - especially if they've paid into it all those years they've worked. We can't just cut them off after all these years.
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WE NEED TO STOP HAVING BABIES WHAT KIND OF LIFE DO THE CHILDREN HAVE TO LOOK FORWARD TOO..SOME OF YOU ARE TRYING TO BRING INTO THIS DAMAGED WORLD FULL OF NEGATIVITY BABIES THAT HAVE NOT A CHANCE TO SURVIVE..CAN'T YOU SEE THAT THE MEDICAL SITUATION ON THIS PLANET HAS COME TO A HAULT.
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As a baby boomer I am very concerned that I will have health coverage when I am ready to retire.
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Why is it we are even discussing this? Are we supposed to send our sick elderly out to the streets? How is it other countries, some considered 'third world' cherish their elderly...we toss them out to the streets...disgusting
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I have worked hard as a nurse for over 20 years. Is it right that I retire with inadequate health care benefits? NO! I am counting on Medicare as are the majority of Americans.
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Congress what about the solemn promise you made to senior's to supply more affordable medical care. don't go back on your promise.
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How many times are you going to punish those who worked and paid into the system? It's time to give to those who have all ready given so much. Hmmm, why is there a group of us called "baby boomers"? Do you know? It's because our parent(s) were fighting in a war...and it was the era of them leaving or coming home that the conception came for all those babies. Not only did they fight in a war to keep this great country for what it is, they gave you 3.2 million babies to join in the working field to keep social security alive. Now it's their turn...KEEP MEDICARE ALIVE. IT'S THE RIGHT THING TO DO!
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Both my parents and one of my aunts are over age 55, and all three will be 60 by 2009. My mom and dad suffer from osteoarthritis, and both my mom and my aunt have had knee surgery (aunt had bilateral partial knee replacements in 2003). I see more than ever the growing need to have adequate health care in place for seniors, as my brother and I will be the ones caring for my parents as they continue to age and I want there to be as many options as possible available to us at that time.
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7:37 am PDT, May 13,
Tatiana A. Kostanian, California
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this is wrong! this is america and we are better than this! thankyou
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