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Upcoming Senate Vote: Say Yes to Medicare Reform!

Target: U.S. Senate
Sponsored by: AMA Patients' Action Network

In the coming week, the Senate will consider a bill that would eliminate Medicare cuts and protect access to high-quality care for you and your family.

If the proposed 20 percent cut in Medicare physician payments is allowed to happen in 2010, it may become more difficult for older Americans to find a doctor.

Fortunately, there is a bill - S. 1776 - that can help. This bill would not only stop the upcoming Medicare cuts, it also would help to make sure that doctors can continue caring for Medicare patients. It would preserve seniors' access to care and starts us down the path of real Medicare reform.

Your help is essential if we are to prevent these cuts and others that will come in future years. Sign the petition letter encouraging your senators to support you and your doctor. Urge them to vote Yes on S. 1776.

deadline: 10-31-2009
goal: 5,000

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Dear Senator [Name],

I am writing you today to express my support for S. 1776.

If the 20 percent cut in Medicare physician payments is allowed to happen next year, it may become more difficult for patients to find a doctor. And many doctors report that more Medicare patients are now being treated in emergency rooms for conditions that could have been treated in a physician's office, that it's gotten harder to refer patients to certain medical and surgical specialists and that many seniors now have to travel further for needed medical care.

S. 1776 eliminates the flawed Medicare payment system and preserves seniors access to care.

[Your comments here]

Please do what's right for America by voting Yes on S. 1776.

Sincerely,
[Your name here]

We took action on “Upcoming Senate Vote: Say Yes to Medicare Reform!”!

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5:41 pm PDT, Oct 22, R Wells, California

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5:39 pm PDT, Oct 22, Sharon McKeiver, New York

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5:37 pm PDT, Oct 22, Rendell Austin, Michigan

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5:37 pm PDT, Oct 22, Ramon Veloso, California

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5:17 pm PDT, Oct 22, Karen Dingmon, Washington

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5:13 pm PDT, Oct 22, Karen Stone, California

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5:10 pm PDT, Oct 22, Besa Schweitzer, Missouri

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5:02 pm PDT, Oct 22, Nikki Martinez-Solano, Utah

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4:38 pm PDT, Oct 22, Jeff Thompson, Florida

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4:19 pm PDT, Oct 22, Cassie F, Indiana

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4:10 pm PDT, Oct 22, Ellen Davis, California

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4:07 pm PDT, Oct 22, Ina Claire Gabler, New York
Health care at all ages is an entitlement, not an elite privilege. Senior citizens have contributed to society in their prime years and are entitled to the health care due them. Just as you will be when you are a senior. I urge you to fight against Medicare cuts and any other practice that would discourage doctors from taking on Medicare patients. We seem to always have funds for wars that fail and expand the deficit. We certainly have money for our citizens' health care.

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4:07 pm PDT, Oct 22, Name not displayed, California

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3:59 pm PDT, Oct 22, David Piersol-Freedman, Massachusetts

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3:58 pm PDT, Oct 22, Joseph Martin, California

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3:35 pm PDT, Oct 22, Name not displayed, Kentucky

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3:33 pm PDT, Oct 22, Karen Cass, Michigan

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3:31 pm PDT, Oct 22, Damon Laaker, Nebraska

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3:20 pm PDT, Oct 22, Theresa Jaquess, California

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3:17 pm PDT, Oct 22, Michael Blossom, California

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3:14 pm PDT, Oct 22, Patricia Glenn, Alabama

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3:04 pm PDT, Oct 22, Debra Thorn, Alabama
Please help us protect our health care. We have three people in our immediate family, myself included that depend on having medicare for our medical needs. If not for Medicare,,,we will not receive the medical attention we deserve as United States Tax Paying Citizens. Thank You, Debra Thorn

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3:01 pm PDT, Oct 22, Barbara Penley, California

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2:58 pm PDT, Oct 22, Stacie Bernstein, Florida

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2:52 pm PDT, Oct 22, Susan M, Michigan

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2:50 pm PDT, Oct 22, Dorothy Bruce, New Mexico
Congress made medicare mandatory. They need to ensure that it doesn't become an empty promise.

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2:43 pm PDT, Oct 22, Jolie Misek, Illinois

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2:40 pm PDT, Oct 22, ANGELA HUTTO, South Carolina

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2:28 pm PDT, Oct 22, Emily Clarke, Massachusetts

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2:23 pm PDT, Oct 22, Phyliss Crowe, Texas

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2:19 pm PDT, Oct 22, Jennifer Java, Tennessee
Seniors aren't the only Americans on Medicare. These cuts affect the disabled - adults AND children - as well.

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2:14 pm PDT, Oct 22, Deborah Perrero, Virginia

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2:14 pm PDT, Oct 22, Stephen Hodge, Maryland

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2:13 pm PDT, Oct 22, Christine Gillen, South Carolina

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2:10 pm PDT, Oct 22, Linda Layne, Virginia
Our seniors have suffered far too long from the frequent Medicare physician payment cuts to the point that many have lost their physicians. Please help!!

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2:02 pm PDT, Oct 22, Julie Bryant, Washington

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1:54 pm PDT, Oct 22, NAM G-M, Illinois

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1:51 pm PDT, Oct 22, Patrice Smith, New York

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1:49 pm PDT, Oct 22, Name not displayed, South Dakota

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1:37 pm PDT, Oct 22, Keith Haviland Barbour, Pennsylvania

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1:32 pm PDT, Oct 22, Marijke Fakasiieiki, California
As my mother will be among millions of medicare patients who need that care, without other insurance means, this bill is absolutely necessary.

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