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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!
# 27,550:
5:30 pm PST, Dec 2,
Ann Godshalk, Pennsylvania
# 27,549:
5:07 pm PST, Dec 2,
Lauren Karpisz, New York
# 27,548:
1:23 pm PST, Dec 2,
Alex Lemski, New Jersey
Cut the damn military budget (except for GI medical, benefits), then we'll have more than enough to pay physicians. What's the matter with you Congress, joining the "kill" the citizens movement of the right? Do RIGHT and help the elderly and indigent!!!!!
Cut the damn military budget (except for GI medical, benefits), then we'll have more than enough to pay physicians. What's the matter with you Congress, joining the "kill" the citizens movement of the right? Do RIGHT and help the elderly and indigent!!!!!
# 27,547:
11:47 am PST, Dec 2,
Name not displayed, Texas
# 27,546:
11:42 am PST, Dec 2,
Cobi F., Wisconsin
# 27,545:
11:31 am PST, Dec 2,
Betty Herbert, Georgia
To cut Medicare is as low ethically as any government can go. Our older citizens should not be faced with poverty at a time when they can no longer work and have supported the government through taxes most of their lives! This makes usury look like a lesser crime.
To cut Medicare is as low ethically as any government can go. Our older citizens should not be faced with poverty at a time when they can no longer work and have supported the government through taxes most of their lives! This makes usury look like a lesser crime.
# 27,544:
11:23 am PST, Dec 2,
Brittany PG, Florida
# 27,543:
9:56 am PST, Dec 2,
Patrice Mykytka, Florida
# 27,542:
9:12 am PST, Dec 2,
Name not displayed, Indiana
# 27,541:
8:03 am PST, Dec 2,
Lynn Knaub, Pennsylvania
# 27,540:
7:44 am PST, Dec 2,
Robert Kyllonen, Washington
My wife has MS. I have a daughter. I have Ulcerative Colitis. My medical expenses exceed $800.00 per month. Something has to change. Please fix our failing medical system.
My wife has MS. I have a daughter. I have Ulcerative Colitis. My medical expenses exceed $800.00 per month. Something has to change. Please fix our failing medical system.
# 27,539:
7:38 am PST, Dec 2,
Liz Chaloux, Connecticut
# 27,538:
6:28 am PST, Dec 2,
Name not displayed, New York
# 27,537:
8:30 pm PST, Dec 1,
Stephanie Slawek, New York
# 27,536:
6:40 pm PST, Dec 1,
Patricia C. Riggins, Illinois
# 27,535:
2:27 pm PST, Dec 1,
Stanley Pendze, Pennsylvania
# 27,534:
1:56 pm PST, Dec 1,
Name not displayed, Wisconsin
This matter is in need of your immediate attention.Thank you.
This matter is in need of your immediate attention.Thank you.
# 27,533:
1:36 pm PST, Dec 1,
Thelma Souders, Maryland
# 27,532:
10:50 am PST, Dec 1,
Lisa Raines, Michigan
# 27,531:
9:54 am PST, Dec 1,
Laurie Johnson, New Hampshire
# 27,530:
8:35 am PST, Dec 1,
Marceline Gearry, Oregon
# 27,529:
8:08 am PST, Dec 1,
Name not displayed, Florida
# 27,528:
7:58 am PST, Dec 1,
Sally Broughton, Oregon
Please help us. We have spent a lifetime paying into the plan so we can have good health care in our aging years.
Please help us. We have spent a lifetime paying into the plan so we can have good health care in our aging years.
# 27,527:
5:57 am PST, Dec 1,
Name not displayed, New Jersey
# 27,526:
12:37 am PST, Dec 1,
Linda Hall, California
# 27,525:
12:14 am PST, Dec 1,
Lauren Dillinger, Oregon
# 27,524:
9:40 pm PST, Nov 30,
Ceci M M, Florida
# 27,523:
8:08 pm PST, Nov 30,
Harriet Kester-Paletti, Wisconsin
# 27,522:
6:20 pm PST, Nov 30,
Sherry Hegman, Wisconsin
# 27,521:
6:10 pm PST, Nov 30,
Anjelica Carrillo, California
# 27,520:
6:03 pm PST, Nov 30,
Patrick Hesselmann, Arizona
Limiting the fees paid to physicians below the URC level is simply a trick to reduce the number of patients who have access to health care.
Limiting the fees paid to physicians below the URC level is simply a trick to reduce the number of patients who have access to health care.
# 27,519:
5:49 pm PST, Nov 30,
Charles Jones, Ohio
# 27,518:
5:48 pm PST, Nov 30,
Peter Kreissl, Washington
# 27,517:
5:43 pm PST, Nov 30,
Gary Lapid, California
# 27,516:
5:42 pm PST, Nov 30,
Brenda Lawson, California
# 27,515:
5:34 pm PST, Nov 30,
Jeanine Di matteo, Pennsylvania
# 27,514:
5:20 pm PST, Nov 30,
Gabriela Cristescu, Florida
# 27,513:
5:18 pm PST, Nov 30,
Geraldine Beck, Florida
# 27,512:
5:03 pm PST, Nov 30,
Sharon Jonas, California
# 27,511:
5:00 pm PST, Nov 30,
Name not displayed, Wisconsin
# 27,510:
4:10 pm PST, Nov 30,
Maria Avila, Mexico
# 27,509:
4:06 pm PST, Nov 30,
Cynthia Behrens, New Mexico
# 27,508:
3:55 pm PST, Nov 30,
J Rouse, Pennsylvania
# 27,507:
3:50 pm PST, Nov 30,
Kristin-Noelle Russo, Michigan
# 27,506:
3:29 pm PST, Nov 30,
Racheal Martinez, Texas
# 27,505:
3:26 pm PST, Nov 30,
Jan Mardis, Mississippi
As a aging baby boomer and an RN I deal with these issuses on a daily basis and its getting worse, not better
As a aging baby boomer and an RN I deal with these issuses on a daily basis and its getting worse, not better
# 27,504:
3:19 pm PST, Nov 30,
Angela Dionne, Florida
# 27,503:
3:04 pm PST, Nov 30,
Anjie Gonzalez, Alabama
# 27,502:
3:04 pm PST, Nov 30,
Lorin King, Texas
# 27,501:
2:57 pm PST, Nov 30,
Alex MacDonald, Rhode Island