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Limit Patients' Access to Health Care? Help Stop Cuts to Medicare!

Target: U.S. Congress
Sponsored 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!

deadline: Ongoing...
goal: 40,000
 

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Tell Congress Why Health Care Can No Longer Be Compromised!
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Dear [Decision maker],

I strongly urge you to stop Medicare pay cuts.

Medicare doesn't even reimburse doctors at a level equal to the cost of treating patients. And, recent reports predict that the government will cut the rates further - by 10 percent in 2008, and a whopping 40 percent by 2015!

Past 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.

With millions of Baby Boomers about to retire and swell Medicare's ranks, these cuts make no sense. Americans have spent years paying taxes and paying into Social Security. We refuse to let insurance companies cut our benefits to line their own pockets.

If you don't act now, doctor payment cuts will jeopardize Americans' access to doctors. Please make good on your promise to America's families by stopping Medicare pay cuts.

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Sincerely,
[Your name]
[Your address]
We signed the “Limit Patients' Access to Health Care? Help Stop Cuts to Medicare!” petition!
# 150:
8:14 am PDT, Oct 20, Kelly Ireland, California
# 149:
8:13 am PDT, Oct 20, Greg Hohn, North Carolina
# 148:
8:13 am PDT, Oct 20, Name not displayed, New York
# 147:
8:13 am PDT, Oct 20, Gwen Bushman, New Jersey
we need better health plans,now!
# 146:
8:13 am PDT, Oct 20, Marjory Cahill-Shelton, Florida
# 145:
8:13 am PDT, Oct 20, Donna Langston, Texas
I think that there are people here in this country that are our own citzen that don't have insurance and the illegals come here and they get on our welfare that has health insurance. Medicare are suppose to be for the elderly and it isn't worth the paper it is written on. You need to do something about that cause our elder have been here for us and have worked all there lives just to have nothing in the end. I think that you people talk out both sides of your mouth and you don't do anything about the medical health insurance that needs to be address. I would appreciate it if you would take care of all our people who need this and make sure the they are truly eligable for it and not because they are of a certain dissent. Thank you
# 144:
8:13 am PDT, Oct 20, Nick Gonzalez, California
# 143:
8:13 am PDT, Oct 20, Patricia Wetterman, Ohio
You have a good health care plan that the citizens pay for. Perhaps if we stopped paying for your health care, you would realize how expensive health care is and would do something to help our citizens.
# 142:
8:13 am PDT, Oct 20, Martha Frank, New Jersey
# 141:
8:13 am PDT, Oct 20, Name not displayed, California
# 140:
8:13 am PDT, Oct 20, Michael Gerber, New York
# 139:
8:13 am PDT, Oct 20, Bob Clark, Michigan
# 138:
8:13 am PDT, Oct 20, Darlene Slade, Utah
# 137:
8:13 am PDT, Oct 20, Susan Smitman, New York
# 136:
8:13 am PDT, Oct 20, Kelli Taylor, Tennessee
Health Care can no longer be compromised is because we really do need medicare for all of our medications, dentists, doctors, Hospitals, Ambulance Services, Funeral Services, Burials and alot of others. All Democratics, you stinks and you do suck completely (100) percent so help me God as my Witness.
# 135:
8:13 am PDT, Oct 20, Rick Shapiro, Utah
# 134:
8:13 am PDT, Oct 20, Richard Rheder, New York
# 133:
8:13 am PDT, Oct 20, Peter Feldstein, Iowa
# 132:
8:13 am PDT, Oct 20, Gerald Smolinsky, Texas
# 131:
8:13 am PDT, Oct 20, Stacie Russsell, Indiana
# 130:
8:13 am PDT, Oct 20, Marian Guglielmo, California
# 129:
8:13 am PDT, Oct 20, Mitchell Sternbach, New York
# 128:
8:13 am PDT, Oct 20, Jacquelyn Clark, Oregon
# 127:
8:13 am PDT, Oct 20, Name not displayed, Massachusetts
# 126:
8:13 am PDT, Oct 20, Barbara Roth, Michigan
# 125:
8:13 am PDT, Oct 20, Pat Martinak, Illinois
Please let's get our priorities straight. Access to good health care helps keep our country strong.
# 124:
8:13 am PDT, Oct 20, Doug Walters, Oregon
# 123:
8:12 am PDT, Oct 20, Risa Kugal, New York
# 122:
8:12 am PDT, Oct 20, Jim Woods, Ohio
# 121:
8:12 am PDT, Oct 20, Win Heimer, Connecticut
Stop lining the pockets of private insurance companies with public tax dollars. Medicare Advantage plans only give advantage to the insurers. Use the money instead to directly pay for individual Medicare costs.
# 120:
8:12 am PDT, Oct 20, Sandra Schultz, Florida
Our health care cannot any longer be compromised. People like myself rely on Medicare because we do not have the money or income to afford anything else.
# 119:
8:12 am PDT, Oct 20, Flavia Lobo Brock, Arkansas
# 118:
8:12 am PDT, Oct 20, Diane Ethridge, Texas
# 117:
8:12 am PDT, Oct 20, Linda Anable, Oregon
# 116:
8:12 am PDT, Oct 20, Name not displayed, California
# 115:
8:12 am PDT, Oct 20, Jo L. Potter, Tennessee
# 114:
8:12 am PDT, Oct 20, Jennifer DiMeo, New York
# 113:
8:12 am PDT, Oct 20, Marvin Schnur, Connecticut
# 112:
8:12 am PDT, Oct 20, Charlotte Steele, South Carolina
# 111:
8:12 am PDT, Oct 20, Barbara Meares, Arkansas
# 110:
8:12 am PDT, Oct 20, Jennifer Reinert, Michigan
# 109:
8:11 am PDT, Oct 20, Deanna Smith, Arizona
# 108:
8:11 am PDT, Oct 20, Leslie Kolk, New York
# 107:
8:11 am PDT, Oct 20, Kathy Barber, New Jersey
# 106:
8:11 am PDT, Oct 20, Kenneth Shrum, California
# 105:
8:11 am PDT, Oct 20, Name not displayed, Colorado
# 104:
8:11 am PDT, Oct 20, Ronald Cress, Illinois
# 103:
8:11 am PDT, Oct 20, Jody Newman, Colorado
# 102:
8:11 am PDT, Oct 20, Lucia Spinelli, New York
# 101:
8:11 am PDT, Oct 20, Monte Greene, Florida