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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: 10-10-2008
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!

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2:28 pm PDT, Jun 2, Allison Kline, New York

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4:59 pm PDT, Jun 1, Mels Whe, Vermont

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4:10 pm PDT, Jun 1, Cheryl McGregor, Arizona

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12:20 am PDT, Jun 1, Jennifer Beeman, Washington
The ability of people to work is the foundation of each individual's livelihood and our country's economy.

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9:27 pm PDT, May 30, Liz Trujillo, New Mexico

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8:13 am PDT, May 30, Jessamyn Smallenburg, Michigan
Every human being requires health care, it is a basic human need. Denying the fulfillment of that need, or in any way interfering with a person's receiving the treatment they require, I consider to be a violation of basic human rights to health and bodily well-being. Those who would stand in the way of every person receiving necessary health care I consider to be violating the fundamental rights of human beings. It's time that those who are making health care decisions that affect millions come to see themselves as human rights offenders when their decisions are denying basic rights to human beings. Human rights offenders are undeserving of the respect of the American public.

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8:10 pm PDT, May 29, Debbie Low, Florida

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5:19 pm PDT, May 29, Cher Isbell, Texas

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1:37 pm PDT, May 29, Evert Jan Klein Velderman, Netherlands

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1:01 pm PDT, May 29, Daniella Roozenburg, Netherlands

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11:14 am PDT, May 29, RIVER FRANCE, Canada

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8:16 am PDT, May 29, Jila Taghizadeh, Iran, Islamic Republic Of

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1:18 am PDT, May 29, Cloe Virginia Talldeer, Australia

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9:13 pm PDT, May 28, Kay Smith, Texas
I urge you to not cut medicare for our elderly. Alot of our senior citizens barely have enough money now to exist on a meager set amount each month. If it is cut alot of them will go hungry and possibly will not be able to buy the medicines they need to live!

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8:29 pm PDT, May 28, Cecy V. Aguirre L�pez, Mexico

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8:26 pm PDT, May 28, Marcy Morgan, California

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8:14 pm PDT, May 28, James H. Fitch, Pennsylvania

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5:54 pm PDT, May 28, Morgan Griffith, California
Due to ever spiralling cost of living there are too many things Americans must cut back or do without. Healthcare cannot be one of them.

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5:46 pm PDT, May 28, Deborah Cooper, United Kingdom

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4:21 pm PDT, May 28, Shara Cain, Alabama

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4:03 pm PDT, May 28, JD Soriano, Canada

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3:42 pm PDT, May 28, Oana Ichim, Romania

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3:32 pm PDT, May 28, Amelia Zahoor, Florida

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2:44 pm PDT, May 28, Glenda Parker, Australia

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2:30 pm PDT, May 28, Nancy Billings, Maryland

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11:01 am PDT, May 28, Doni Mason, Utah
This is insanity. You are forcing individuals to go without proper medical treatment. Limiting medical treatment is not the answer. Find a better solution!

# 27,824:

8:43 am PDT, May 28, Lisa Gosnell, Delaware

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5:58 am PDT, May 28, Marena Chen, Malaysia

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5:34 am PDT, May 28, Liz Casey, Canada

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11:40 pm PDT, May 27, ROBIN MCKAY, Kentucky
THE OLDER WE GET THE MORE WE NEED OUR INSURANCE. PLEASE STOP THE CUTS SO THAT THOSE IN NEED OF MEDICAL ATTENTION ARE ABLE TO GET WHAT THEY NEED. DON'T LEAVE THEN ALONE TO FIGHT THE BATTLE THEM SELVES. THEY HAVE ALRDEADY GIVEN US MANY YEARS OF HARD LABOR TO MAKE THIS COUNTRY WHAT IT IS TO DAYL. SHOW THEM SOME DIGNITY. PLEASE

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4:49 pm PDT, May 27, Name not displayed, Iowa

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4:08 pm PDT, May 27, Jon Nowak, New York

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10:36 am PDT, May 27, Danielle LeBoeuf, Florida

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11:41 am PDT, May 23, Susan Edelstein, North Carolina

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1:47 pm PDT, May 15, Adina Delgado, California

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10:23 am PDT, May 14, Helen Escobar, Illinois

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4:20 am PDT, May 14, Katherine Garland, Pennsylvania

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6:17 pm PDT, May 12, Cori Cooper, Ohio

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2:15 pm PDT, May 11, Kris K, Pennsylvania

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2:29 pm PDT, May 8, Nancy Milligan, Indiana

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7:55 am PDT, May 8, Mandy Spitzer, California

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1:11 pm PDT, May 7, Brandy Mertes, Illinois

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5:19 am PDT, May 7, Jessica Smalley, Connecticut

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9:01 pm PDT, May 6, Questa Anderson, New York

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3:01 pm PDT, May 6, Lilli Hoffman, Virginia

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2:50 pm PDT, May 6, Robyn Sharpe, Massachusetts

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8:00 pm PDT, May 5, Victoria Valentine, Kansas

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6:30 pm PDT, May 5, Ellen Kirk, West Virginia
Stop cutting health care its a disgrace Ladies who have mysectomys are rushed out of hospitals the next day my Sister had a Double Mysectomy and they sent her home the next day.

# 27,802:

3:30 pm PDT, May 5, Christine Maidl, Colorado

# 27,801:

1:46 pm PDT, May 5, Julie Figueroa, Florida

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