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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 02:27 AM
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U.S. Senate is about to gut guaranteed health insurance coverage for regul


Send a free fax to your Senators NOW: (other manadatory coverage will be dropped also):
The U.S. Senate is about to gut guaranteed health insurance coverage for regular mammograms.

Tell the Senate to vote NO on S.1955.

Protect coverage for mammograms.
Read More...
Go to:
http://www.acscan.org/site/pp.asp?c=cnJHJIPuB&b=1555475

OR CALL your Senators:

Call Your U.S. Senator

Call 1-888-NOW-I-CAN
between 9:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. EST
to be connected to the office of your U.S. Senator.

When the receptionist answers the phone, simply tell him/her the following:
"Please tell Senator ________ that I am a state resident and that I want him/her to oppose Senate Bill 1955 and any other bill that would not protect cancer screenings."

It's as easy as that. Please be prepared to give the operator in the office your name and address if they ask.

A few additional talking points are provided below. Click here to learn even more about the issue and this legislation.

* Right now, there is legislation before the U.S. Senate that, if passed, would allow insurance companies to ignore state laws on insurance coverage. This legislation, Senate Bill 1955, would remove any guarantee of insurance coverage for vital cancer screenings, prevention, and treatments that are currently provided for in more than 130 state laws across the country.
* This bill would eliminate all of the American Cancer Society’s work in your state to guarantee insurance coverage for mammograms, colon cancer screenings, clinical trial participation, and other cancer screenings and treatments.


What other cancer screenings are at risk?

Insurance coverage for the following cancer screenings and treatments could be eliminated:

- Mammograms - Colonoscopy
- Pap smear - Clinical trials
- Off-label drug use - Prostate cancer screenings
- And more




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Selatius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 03:05 AM
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1. Corporate greed in its rawest form
If you can't afford it, "tough shit." You deserved it for being lazy and not getting a job that pays well. Isn't that right, "welfare queens"?

:sarcasm:
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msgadget Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 03:16 AM
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3. It's so blatantly wrong-headed I can't believe we have to worry about this
Edited on Sun Apr-30-06 03:19 AM by msgadget
Just this month or late last month I learned that a drug company raised the prices of certain cancer medications based on their 'value' to the patient. The co-pay for a Medicare recipient - $1000 PER MONTH. So, politicians and insurance companies would rather bolster the cancer INDUSTRY than the lives and well-being of the poor saps who voted for them. Jokes on them though, few can afford to get cancer even WITH insurance these days.

This is criminal and I don't understand how ANYONE - conservative, liberal, republican, democrat - could consider their representative's voting for it as voting in their best interests. And, what pisses me off even more is how politicians tip-toe around the issue of health care coverage. "Gee, if I mention universal healthcare I may loose moderate white men or maybe even those stray swing voters who got away from us in '04." Health insurance premiums are strangling me and everybody I know and now I'll be getting even LESS coverage. I pay so much in insurance premiums I can't afford to go to the doctor. How's that for prosperity, my dear finger-in-the-wind, fundraising corporatists? If you want my vote you damned well better promise me relief.

Edit to remove an expletive.
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Selatius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 03:51 AM
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4. You shouldn't have to edit to remove expletives
Passion, especially righteous passion, is something that cannot be restrained. I love people with passion. It reminds me that we're not cogs in a machine or rats in the rat race but human beings instead. Passion animates us; it invigorates us. Passion for love, passion for life, passion for the truth--I love it all. I would rather a person spew an ocean of expletives in anger and disgust than offer stifled words of soft disapproval.
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msgadget Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 12:06 PM
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6. This issue has me so twisted I can ONLY spew expletives and
passion is one thing but I tell my kids, "They won't listen to you if you sound crazy." At this point, I think I'll go with your mindset because I feel unheard even without the expletives. Fuck 'em, they can kiss my ass if they're not going to help me! I don't care how many cautious democrats here or on television tell me to tread softly so 'we' can 'win' - win what?? Win WHAT?? I'm NOT the crazy one!

Aaaaah, that felt better. Thanks.
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msgadget Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 03:05 AM
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2. Thanks,
I did this and an email to my friends. :kick: & R
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katinmn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 11:57 AM
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5. Congressional aristocrats at work. They have the best health care
money can buy funded by us - for life!

We already have 46 million uninsured, half that amount underinsured, and we are paying through the nose when we can afford health care.

This is an abominable bill.
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flyarm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-30-06 05:46 PM
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7. this should be on the front page..it is too important!!
how many women will die because of this??????????

and how many with early colon cnacer will die??

this is dispicable..

isn't it bad enough we have 45 million with no health insurance..how many women get their mamogram done because their insurance pays for it?? millions...how many will opt out of getting it because it will not be insured?????

this is disgusting!!

i am sending this to my ob..may i suggest others do the same..this needs to be posted in all womens doctors offices!!

fly
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