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America's Veterans Deserve Adequate Medical Care
Target: U.S. Congress
Sponsored by: American Medical Association Patients' Action Netw
Sponsored by: American Medical Association Patients' Action Netw
Service members fighting for our country shouldn't have to worry about their families' health care. But millions of military patients and their families are already having trouble finding physicians. Since TRICARE, the military insurance plan for active and retired military members and their families, is tied to Medicare, future doctor payment cuts will cause even greater harm to their health care quality. Unless Congress acts now, future doctor payment cuts will deprive these heroes of the health care they need and deserve. Help protect service members' access to doctors!
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# 35,100:
8:28 pm PDT, May 15,
Jeffery Ann Scoggins, Texas
# 35,099:
8:26 pm PDT, May 15,
Jim Elliott, California
# 35,098:
8:25 pm PDT, May 15,
Dana Humphrey, Florida
# 35,097:
8:19 pm PDT, May 15,
Paula Hood, Oregon
# 35,096:
8:17 pm PDT, May 15,
Name not displayed, Oregon
We elist to protect our country and that means you too of course! We were drafted to protect our country and that too means you too of course!! We give away our rights to protect our country and of course that means protecting you as well!!! We give up our freedom to protect our country and you know what that means of course. We fight, have our bodies shot to pieces, blown to bits, broken physically and mentally only to be turned down for medical help after all of that!!! Why? Tell us all why we should reenlist to protect a country that shuns us after so much terror and bloodshed? Why??? We spend years of our lives to try to protect this country! We come back all broken, mentally and physically only to be turned down for the medical attention that we must have. To be treated like useless animals even by veteran surgeons and nurses! Why? Todays Vets needs help more than anyone after they go through such an ordeal so please do not make them suffer even more after the horror they go through!!!??? It is terrible to have to run all day long and be shot at and also to see little children tortured, maimed, and also of course trained by their own people to fight like grown men. To fight in such terrible condtions that our people are not used to, intense heat, humidity! Then of course after they spend their tour only to be recalled even after they are told that they will have to never return to the misery! What kind of treatment is it to ruin our people after they give soooo much? I think it a shame to do that to anyone after they give their lives to us even though they do not even know who we are, just blind faces we are to them and this is how we treat them? Shame!!! Shame on our country!!!!! Keep the medical supplies, doctors and Psycologist on hand please!!!??? They do need and deserve the help after going through such hard times!!!
We elist to protect our country and that means you too of course! We were drafted to protect our country and that too means you too of course!! We give away our rights to protect our country and of course that means protecting you as well!!! We give up our freedom to protect our country and you know what that means of course. We fight, have our bodies shot to pieces, blown to bits, broken physically and mentally only to be turned down for medical help after all of that!!! Why? Tell us all why we should reenlist to protect a country that shuns us after so much terror and bloodshed? Why??? We spend years of our lives to try to protect this country! We come back all broken, mentally and physically only to be turned down for the medical attention that we must have. To be treated like useless animals even by veteran surgeons and nurses! Why? Todays Vets needs help more than anyone after they go through such an ordeal so please do not make them suffer even more after the horror they go through!!!??? It is terrible to have to run all day long and be shot at and also to see little children tortured, maimed, and also of course trained by their own people to fight like grown men. To fight in such terrible condtions that our people are not used to, intense heat, humidity! Then of course after they spend their tour only to be recalled even after they are told that they will have to never return to the misery! What kind of treatment is it to ruin our people after they give soooo much? I think it a shame to do that to anyone after they give their lives to us even though they do not even know who we are, just blind faces we are to them and this is how we treat them? Shame!!! Shame on our country!!!!! Keep the medical supplies, doctors and Psycologist on hand please!!!??? They do need and deserve the help after going through such hard times!!!
# 35,095:
8:17 pm PDT, May 15,
Tori Bush, Florida
# 35,094:
8:14 pm PDT, May 15,
Gina Trikonis, California
# 35,093:
8:10 pm PDT, May 15,
John Sprague, Massachusetts
If our vice president -- a man who managed, through repeated draft deferments, to avoid serving in his country's armed forces altogether -- is promptly and frequently treated by some of the top medical professionals in the country, why should those men and women who did their duty, often at enormous personal risk during time of war, be forced to accept such a shamefully inequitable level of care?
If our vice president -- a man who managed, through repeated draft deferments, to avoid serving in his country's armed forces altogether -- is promptly and frequently treated by some of the top medical professionals in the country, why should those men and women who did their duty, often at enormous personal risk during time of war, be forced to accept such a shamefully inequitable level of care?
# 35,092:
8:07 pm PDT, May 15,
Carol Cartwright, Ohio
# 35,091:
8:07 pm PDT, May 15,
Jadrian Watson, Idaho
# 35,090:
8:04 pm PDT, May 15,
Nancy Lamia, Illinois
# 35,089:
8:04 pm PDT, May 15,
Dakota Rose, Massachusetts
# 35,088:
8:03 pm PDT, May 15,
Nathan Wolf, California
# 35,087:
8:00 pm PDT, May 15,
Donna A., California
Please help them. No more war!
Please help them. No more war!
# 35,086:
7:59 pm PDT, May 15,
Olga i. Torres, Florida
veterans risk their lives out there for all of us here some come home with one arm or leg or none some dont even come back living their families in sorrow please they deserve adecuate everything for their sacrifices.. my brother is a veteran from viet nan..and he never be the same again..they deserve not only honor and medals but what 's best for them and their families..good care for their health.. Thank you
veterans risk their lives out there for all of us here some come home with one arm or leg or none some dont even come back living their families in sorrow please they deserve adecuate everything for their sacrifices.. my brother is a veteran from viet nan..and he never be the same again..they deserve not only honor and medals but what 's best for them and their families..good care for their health.. Thank you
# 35,085:
7:57 pm PDT, May 15,
Nicole Williams, South Carolina
# 35,084:
7:57 pm PDT, May 15,
Elizabeth Beals, Colorado
# 35,083:
7:56 pm PDT, May 15,
Jennifer Chiaravalle, New York
# 35,082:
7:56 pm PDT, May 15,
Erik Scott, Florida
# 35,081:
7:56 pm PDT, May 15,
Laura Yates, Ohio
# 35,080:
7:56 pm PDT, May 15,
Celeste Karasek, Missouri
# 35,079:
7:52 pm PDT, May 15,
Lisa J. De Febo, Pennsylvania
# 35,078:
7:47 pm PDT, May 15,
Patricia Thompson, Colorado
# 35,077:
7:44 pm PDT, May 15,
Tom Ouellette, Tennessee
# 35,076:
7:42 pm PDT, May 15,
Anneliese Schultz, Maine
# 35,075:
7:40 pm PDT, May 15,
Cindy Stewart, Pennsylvania
# 35,074:
7:26 pm PDT, May 15,
Stephen R. DeMaria, New York
Veterans should be grandfathered to remain under the old policy by not having their doctor payments subject to the new payment cuts. Veterans have laid their lives on the line for our country and should be provided and entitled to the best medical benefits by the government that are equal to or even superior to the best medical insurance plan coverages that are provided to private industry, federal, state, and city employees. There should be no debate regarding top notch medical benefits policy for veterans.
Veterans should be grandfathered to remain under the old policy by not having their doctor payments subject to the new payment cuts. Veterans have laid their lives on the line for our country and should be provided and entitled to the best medical benefits by the government that are equal to or even superior to the best medical insurance plan coverages that are provided to private industry, federal, state, and city employees. There should be no debate regarding top notch medical benefits policy for veterans.
# 35,073:
7:26 pm PDT, May 15,
Sheila Shovelton, Massachusetts
Please support our nation's veteran's and their families. They have served their country and deserve good medical care. Let us not forget the sacrfices they have made!
Please support our nation's veteran's and their families. They have served their country and deserve good medical care. Let us not forget the sacrfices they have made!
# 35,072:
7:18 pm PDT, May 15,
Mark Persons, Tennessee
# 35,071:
7:15 pm PDT, May 15,
Kasia Vazquez, California
Dear Senators, On behalf of America's service members and their families, I strongly urge you to stop Medicare doctor payment 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 service members 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. view more With millions of military patients and their families already having trouble finding physicians, 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. America's vets have sacrificed for our country and have done their duty to protect all Americans. Please make good on your promise by stopping Medicare doctor payment cuts. view less Sincerely, Kasia Vazquez
Dear Senators, On behalf of America's service members and their families, I strongly urge you to stop Medicare doctor payment 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 service members 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. view more With millions of military patients and their families already having trouble finding physicians, 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. America's vets have sacrificed for our country and have done their duty to protect all Americans. Please make good on your promise by stopping Medicare doctor payment cuts. view less Sincerely, Kasia Vazquez
# 35,070:
7:15 pm PDT, May 15,
Alyssa Garrett, Ohio
# 35,069:
7:14 pm PDT, May 15,
Judith Chock, California
# 35,068:
7:13 pm PDT, May 15,
Deborah Hilscher, Michigan
# 35,067:
7:12 pm PDT, May 15,
Name not displayed, New York
# 35,066:
7:12 pm PDT, May 15,
Ashley Trull, Massachusetts
Veterans and their families are very much in need of medical care. Do the right thing and provide them with what they need after they have given sacrificed so much for this country
Veterans and their families are very much in need of medical care. Do the right thing and provide them with what they need after they have given sacrificed so much for this country
# 35,065:
7:08 pm PDT, May 15,
Steven Oberndorf, New Jersey
# 35,064:
7:05 pm PDT, May 15,
Michelle Ramsdell, Oregon
Lord knows I don't have the courage our Very BRAVE troops do and I thank GOD he created these very couragous people for which without we would be under constant attack on our soil. I would hope that their service, dedication, and the tremendous risk not only they are taking every day but their families are also risking losing their most dear loved ones would be Honored. They are not being honored if they have to justify and fight (sic) for the right to medical benefits for themselves and their families. This is a disgrace to me as a patriotic American. It makes me so sick to my stomach that our country could put our soldiers in Hell and then turn their backs on them in ANY time of need. Maybe you need to remember that if couragous people don't continue to step up in a time of need there will be drafts put forth and anyone, your son rich or upper middle clas could very well be in their position. SUPPORT OUR TROOPS!!!!!!!!! If this is not a game of bait and switch then Prove your loyalty. If you care you would understand their position and do whatever it takes to make sure their devotion to their country is returned to them when they need it most!
Lord knows I don't have the courage our Very BRAVE troops do and I thank GOD he created these very couragous people for which without we would be under constant attack on our soil. I would hope that their service, dedication, and the tremendous risk not only they are taking every day but their families are also risking losing their most dear loved ones would be Honored. They are not being honored if they have to justify and fight (sic) for the right to medical benefits for themselves and their families. This is a disgrace to me as a patriotic American. It makes me so sick to my stomach that our country could put our soldiers in Hell and then turn their backs on them in ANY time of need. Maybe you need to remember that if couragous people don't continue to step up in a time of need there will be drafts put forth and anyone, your son rich or upper middle clas could very well be in their position. SUPPORT OUR TROOPS!!!!!!!!! If this is not a game of bait and switch then Prove your loyalty. If you care you would understand their position and do whatever it takes to make sure their devotion to their country is returned to them when they need it most!
# 35,063:
7:04 pm PDT, May 15,
Terri McCown, California
# 35,062:
7:02 pm PDT, May 15,
Susan Weller, New Mexico
# 35,061:
7:00 pm PDT, May 15,
Bealinda Crawford, Kentucky
I just lost my Dad because he didn't get the medical attention he needed from the VA in Marion Il. He gave 13 yrs. to Veitnam and died because of it.
I just lost my Dad because he didn't get the medical attention he needed from the VA in Marion Il. He gave 13 yrs. to Veitnam and died because of it.
# 35,060:
6:59 pm PDT, May 15,
James Duncan, California
# 35,059:
6:54 pm PDT, May 15,
Cheryl Abernathy, Indiana
Cutting veterans and their family is a pathetic notion, they fight for us for this?
Cutting veterans and their family is a pathetic notion, they fight for us for this?
# 35,058:
6:52 pm PDT, May 15,
Name not displayed, Wisconsin
# 35,057:
6:50 pm PDT, May 15,
Christine Baca, New Mexico
Please don't forget the great price paid by our vets. Help them have a decent life.
Please don't forget the great price paid by our vets. Help them have a decent life.
# 35,056:
6:42 pm PDT, May 15,
Larry McCarter, Indiana
# 35,055:
6:42 pm PDT, May 15,
Eunice Lalonde, New York
# 35,054:
6:41 pm PDT, May 15,
David Klingel, Michigan
# 35,053:
6:34 pm PDT, May 15,
BeauRyan Kennedy, Hawaii
# 35,052:
6:31 pm PDT, May 15,
Name not displayed, Wisconsin
# 35,051:
6:24 pm PDT, May 15,
Heather Yu, Illinois