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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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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.

[Your comment here]

Sincerely,
[Your name]
[Your address]

We signed the “Limit Patients' Access to Health Care? Help Stop Cuts to Medicare!” petition!

# 27,700:

10:04 pm PST, Dec 18, Denise Brooks, Tennessee

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6:34 pm PST, Dec 18, Nicole M. Rhoads, Michigan

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4:17 pm PST, Dec 18, Jacquelyn Dorris, Colorado

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1:36 pm PST, Dec 18, Mariavictoria Duron, Texas

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12:33 pm PST, Dec 18, Joseph St.Clair, California
We need a National, Single-payer plan like or through Medicare, not restrictions of payments to Medicare Docters.

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11:16 am PST, Dec 18, Ramzi Takiyyuddin, Lebanon

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9:27 am PST, Dec 18, Renee Zorzi, New Jersey

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4:36 pm PST, Dec 17, Ron Hill, Nebraska

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11:16 am PST, Dec 17, Name not displayed, New York

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10:12 am PST, Dec 17, Michelle Brown, Virginia

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5:19 am PST, Dec 17, Daria Wilson, New Jersey

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2:46 am PST, Dec 17, Sharon Boone, New Jersey

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1:47 am PST, Dec 17, Eisha Fields, California
have you ever been sick and without insurance???? ever been to a county hospital? in los angeles??? do the right thing!!!!!

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9:34 pm PST, Dec 16, Torri Harris, Iowa

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8:42 pm PST, Dec 16, Nancy Harrison, Wisconsin

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5:53 pm PST, Dec 16, Name not displayed, Illinois
Please do not cut the doctor's fee's by 10%. Give them another year to make the necessary adjustments. In order to reach a satisfactory solution for us on Medicare. Congress persons this is serious, we depend on Medicare! Allow us to depend on you to help us!!

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4:33 pm PST, Dec 16, Diane Berliner, California

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2:52 pm PST, Dec 16, Amy Saavedra, Arizona

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2:47 pm PST, Dec 16, Jodie Nathan, New York
Everyone has a right to good health care, with out it there is not much that can be acomplished. Take that away and it seems to just be creating more problems.

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2:06 pm PST, Dec 16, Lisa Allen, Texas

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1:49 pm PST, Dec 16, Samia Lalani, Canada

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1:25 pm PST, Dec 16, Zelia Broyles, Virginia

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12:28 pm PST, Dec 16, James Culbertson, Colorado

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11:55 am PST, Dec 16, Jennifer Sanders, Puerto Rico

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11:22 am PST, Dec 16, Allen Huggins, Wisconsin

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8:05 am PST, Dec 16, Robert Palma, Ohio

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8:44 pm PST, Dec 15, Bobbi Breakdown., Idaho

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4:44 pm PST, Dec 15, Name not displayed, California

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1:51 pm PST, Dec 15, Veronica Benson-Moore, California

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1:11 pm PST, Dec 15, Daisy Torres, Florida

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9:02 am PST, Dec 15, Jeannette Bittar, Michigan

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5:29 am PST, Dec 15, Ryan Sigo, Indiana

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9:20 pm PST, Dec 14, Jessica Eldridge, Australia

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2:44 pm PST, Dec 14, Carley Broder, New York

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12:46 pm PST, Dec 14, Elisabeth Ross Wingate, New York

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12:08 pm PST, Dec 14, Walter Place, Pennsylvania

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10:46 am PST, Dec 14, Name not displayed, Michigan

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5:11 am PST, Dec 14, Wendy Borgman, Indiana

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8:00 pm PST, Dec 13, Andrea Miller, Oklahoma

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11:28 am PST, Dec 13, Janin Cruz, Florida

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11:11 am PST, Dec 13, Michael Barnes, California

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8:05 am PST, Dec 13, Jodene Carlin, Missouri
Now pretend that it is one, or several, of your own that is not receiving the care they need.

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10:30 pm PST, Dec 12, Laura Cooper, Alabama

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7:58 pm PST, Dec 12, Ruth Paredes, Texas

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6:42 pm PST, Dec 12, Dianna Wells, North Carolina

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8:07 am PST, Dec 12, Stephanie Copus, Alabama

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9:46 pm PST, Dec 11, Valerie Grogan, Kansas

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5:39 pm PST, Dec 11, Rebekkah Crim, Oregon

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5:04 pm PST, Dec 11, Name not displayed, Florida

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