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Limit Patients' Access to Health Care? Help Stop Cuts to Medicare!
Target: U.S. CongressSponsored by: American Medical Association Patients' Action Netw
The future for patients’ access to health care is bleak.
While millions of baby boomers are about to retire and swell Medicare’s ranks, the government is cutting patients access to Medicare. It makes no sense. You have spent years paying taxes and paying into social security. Now insurance companies want to cut your benefits to line their own pockets.
Past Medicare cuts have made it more difficult for patients to find a doctor. Future doctor payment cuts will force doctors to limit the number of new Medicare patients they treat, will make it more difficult to find surgical and medical specialists and will force seniors to travel greater distances for medical care.
Now is your chance to protect yourself and your family — the future of your health is in your hands.
Tell Washington bigwigs to stop playing politics with your health care. Sign the petition to Congress today!
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We signed the “Limit Patients' Access to Health Care? Help Stop Cuts to Medicare!” petition!
# 100:
8:11 am PDT, Oct 20,
Mary Self, Texas
I am 63 years old. I live on $800 a month with a $370. mortgage, electricity bill, auto insurance (1990 pickup), and a few other necessities. I have serious asthma. I live in a small town with one medical clinic. I cannot afford my asthma medicine, except by buying less food. If my clinic won't accept me when I finally am eligible for medicare, how will I afford health care at all. What if I actually get sick, besides asthma.
I am 63 years old. I live on $800 a month with a $370. mortgage, electricity bill, auto insurance (1990 pickup), and a few other necessities. I have serious asthma. I live in a small town with one medical clinic. I cannot afford my asthma medicine, except by buying less food. If my clinic won't accept me when I finally am eligible for medicare, how will I afford health care at all. What if I actually get sick, besides asthma.
# 99:
8:11 am PDT, Oct 20,
Susan Brown, Illinois
Capitalism is greedy and deadly. Try a form of Socialized Medicine for America!
Capitalism is greedy and deadly. Try a form of Socialized Medicine for America!
# 98:
8:11 am PDT, Oct 20,
Donna Greenwell, New York
# 97:
8:11 am PDT, Oct 20,
Name not displayed, Washington D.C.
# 96:
8:11 am PDT, Oct 20,
Vicki Word, Texas
# 95:
8:10 am PDT, Oct 20,
Rhese Meares, Arkansas
# 94:
8:10 am PDT, Oct 20,
Chuck Countryman, Ohio
# 93:
8:10 am PDT, Oct 20,
Maria Belkadi, Pennsylvania
# 92:
8:10 am PDT, Oct 20,
Theresa Steele, Ohio
We need to have health care for ALL AMERICANS!! And make were WE DONT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT GETTING SICK!!We need to take care of US!!
We need to have health care for ALL AMERICANS!! And make were WE DONT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT GETTING SICK!!We need to take care of US!!
# 91:
8:10 am PDT, Oct 20,
Roseann Brown, California
# 90:
8:10 am PDT, Oct 20,
Sherry Toy, Florida
# 89:
8:10 am PDT, Oct 20,
Sandi Clark, Kansas
# 88:
8:10 am PDT, Oct 20,
Joe McNeil, Georgia
Please,no more cuts into medicare
Please,no more cuts into medicare
# 87:
8:10 am PDT, Oct 20,
Ben Chiang, California
# 86:
8:09 am PDT, Oct 20,
Sandra Lane, Texas
What an embarrassment! Shame on this government. We are the wealthiest country in the world and look how we waste our money. We will be judged on how we treat the old, the ill, and the poor...All the people who suffer because the greedy rich run this country and deprive the less fortunate of health care.
What an embarrassment! Shame on this government. We are the wealthiest country in the world and look how we waste our money. We will be judged on how we treat the old, the ill, and the poor...All the people who suffer because the greedy rich run this country and deprive the less fortunate of health care.
# 85:
8:09 am PDT, Oct 20,
Doug Harkins, Minnesota
# 84:
8:09 am PDT, Oct 20,
RICHARD BOND, Maryland
# 83:
8:09 am PDT, Oct 20,
PAUL MOORE, Vermont
# 82:
8:09 am PDT, Oct 20,
Gail Rubio, California
Why is it that ALL NECESSARY MONIES CAN BE FOUND AND ALLOTTED to accomodate TAX BREAKS FOR THE WEALTHY, CORPORATE WELFARE, CARE OF ILLEGAL ALIENS, MONETARY BRIBES TO OTHER COUNTRIES, ETC? But when it comes to looking after the RETIRED WORKING PEOPLE WHO MADE THIS COUNTRY GREAT AND PROSPEROUS AT LEAST BEFORE THE PAST 7 YEARS, THERE ISN'T ENOUGH TO GO ROUND? GIVE ME A BREAK!
Why is it that ALL NECESSARY MONIES CAN BE FOUND AND ALLOTTED to accomodate TAX BREAKS FOR THE WEALTHY, CORPORATE WELFARE, CARE OF ILLEGAL ALIENS, MONETARY BRIBES TO OTHER COUNTRIES, ETC? But when it comes to looking after the RETIRED WORKING PEOPLE WHO MADE THIS COUNTRY GREAT AND PROSPEROUS AT LEAST BEFORE THE PAST 7 YEARS, THERE ISN'T ENOUGH TO GO ROUND? GIVE ME A BREAK!
# 81:
8:09 am PDT, Oct 20,
Justine Jackson-Ricketts, Virginia
# 80:
8:09 am PDT, Oct 20,
Barbara Johnson, Washington
I am 72 years old. I worked from the age of 14. I burned out after obtaining an M.A. and teaching school my entire life. I have already been denied access to a Dr. because he decided he needed more money than that which Medicare provided three years ago. I worked for the money Medicare pays...Congress needs to protect me and millions of others like me, from devastation by this Administration.
I am 72 years old. I worked from the age of 14. I burned out after obtaining an M.A. and teaching school my entire life. I have already been denied access to a Dr. because he decided he needed more money than that which Medicare provided three years ago. I worked for the money Medicare pays...Congress needs to protect me and millions of others like me, from devastation by this Administration.
# 79:
8:09 am PDT, Oct 20,
Ellen Zucker, Pennsylvania
# 78:
8:08 am PDT, Oct 20,
Pam Angulo, New Hampshire
Clearly, another approach to health care is needed in this country. Help stop the stalling and start coming up with new ideas!
Clearly, another approach to health care is needed in this country. Help stop the stalling and start coming up with new ideas!
# 77:
8:08 am PDT, Oct 20,
Jeanne Robertson, New Mexico
We get so little for our hard earned $$$ anyway... while the CEO's of insurance will retire on our denied claims
We get so little for our hard earned $$$ anyway... while the CEO's of insurance will retire on our denied claims
# 76:
8:08 am PDT, Oct 20,
Pamela Taylor, North Carolina
# 75:
8:08 am PDT, Oct 20,
Deb Hirt, Maine
Please don't cut my health care. I've been healthy all my life, but I would like to have it if I need it, just like so many others.
Please don't cut my health care. I've been healthy all my life, but I would like to have it if I need it, just like so many others.
# 74:
8:08 am PDT, Oct 20,
Tamar Schwartz, New York
Many countries have univeral health care and it is a basic right.
Many countries have univeral health care and it is a basic right.
# 73:
8:07 am PDT, Oct 20,
Anita Quinn, New York
# 72:
8:07 am PDT, Oct 20,
Jan-Michael Laughlin, Illinois
# 71:
8:07 am PDT, Oct 20,
Don Hanlon, Wisconsin
# 70:
8:07 am PDT, Oct 20,
Dorothy Lovaglio, Florida
# 69:
8:07 am PDT, Oct 20,
Charles Shelton, Virginia
# 68:
8:06 am PDT, Oct 20,
Robin Butler, Pennsylvania
# 67:
8:06 am PDT, Oct 20,
Teresa ORourke, Oklahoma
# 66:
8:06 am PDT, Oct 20,
Margaret Dhillon, Virginia
Why are we even talking about this.....is America not a *civilized* country, health care is a basic. War is not a basic!
Why are we even talking about this.....is America not a *civilized* country, health care is a basic. War is not a basic!
# 65:
8:05 am PDT, Oct 20,
John D. Nickrosz, Massachusetts
Please preserved these benefits that we really need.
Please preserved these benefits that we really need.
# 64:
8:05 am PDT, Oct 20,
Alice Brody, New York
# 63:
8:05 am PDT, Oct 20,
Richard Sussmeier, California
# 62:
8:05 am PDT, Oct 20,
Adam Ochs, New York
# 61:
8:04 am PDT, Oct 20,
Peggy Driesenga, Michigan
# 60:
8:04 am PDT, Oct 20,
Charles Neidich, New York
# 59:
8:04 am PDT, Oct 20,
Ronald Smith, Georgia
# 58:
8:04 am PDT, Oct 20,
Elizabeth Abbott, New York
# 57:
7:46 am PDT, Oct 20,
J E Berger, Pennsylvania
# 56:
7:36 am PDT, Oct 20,
Vidya Sims, California
# 55:
7:19 am PDT, Oct 20,
Elaine Secondo, Connecticut
# 54:
7:10 am PDT, Oct 20,
Trisha Springstead Rn, Florida
# 53:
7:04 am PDT, Oct 20,
Aelred Glidden, Michigan
If government supported health care is good enough for the president and all the members of Congress, why not for the rest of us?
If government supported health care is good enough for the president and all the members of Congress, why not for the rest of us?
# 52:
7:02 am PDT, Oct 20,
Agata Ewa, Poland
# 51:
6:33 am PDT, Oct 20,
ROBERT STREBECK, Texas