Warner2008 - Support Funding Critical Health Care Services (petition)

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Sign Mark Warner's petition here:

http://www.markwarner2008.com/pages/Support-Funding-Critical-Health-Care-Services

from email:

The rising cost of health care is one of the most urgent problems facing our country, but Congress is struggling to pass even the most modest legislation to deal with it.

Last week, I told you how the U.S. Senate jeopardized health care coverage for countless seniors, disabled citizens, and military families when it failed to pass bipartisan legislation preventing pay cuts to doctors who accept Medicare patients. And for the past week, newspapers have been filled with stories of doctors who feel compelled to turn away patients urgently needing care because of these cuts.

Despite having the support of the vast majority of Democrats and Republicans in Congress, a small group of Senators used a procedural technique to block this important bill by a margin of just one vote.

Well, this week they have a chance to set things right. But I need your help to put the pressure on them. Let's send a message that we're sick and tired of political games getting in the way of real solutions. We only need to swing one vote in order to move this bill through Congress. So please, tell the Senate to stop these draconian cuts and pass the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act.


With your help, we can ensure that we fund Medicare services that so many of our seniors, disabled citizens, and military families need. The legislation includes off-setting cuts to the least competitive insurance plans that are driving up health care costs.

This isn't an issue of Republican vs. Democrat, right vs. left, or red vs. blue. More than 350 members of the House of Representatives came together across party lines in support of this pragmatic, common-sense effort to provide needed health care. Now I ask you, the people of Virginia, to do the same.


Please sign the petition. Then ask your friends and family to do the same.

Thank You,

Mark Warner

***Please copy/paste and pass it around***


Thanks :hi:

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1. Done - you are lucky to have Warner in VA -

Did I ever tell you I'm a Virginian by birth?

To be a Virginian either by Birth, Marriage, Adoption, or even on one's Mother's side is an Introduction to any State in the Union, a Passport to any Foreign Country, and a Benediction from Above.

Moved in 1989 ... still think of the state fondly. :hi:!

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2. Hi hope !

It's our "adopted" state now, I'm from Brooklyn, my hubby's from Boston. We love it here.

:hi:

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6. Adopted is just a wonderful -

Have you been to the Shenandoah?



It's a breathtaking place - if you haven't been, it's a trip worth doing....listen to me, I have yet to see the western part of NC and I've been here six years. Well, we are going to Myrtle Beach this Saturday - Hard Rock Park for the kids!

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8. Oh, yes!

Beautiful photo, thanks for sharing. Did you know that the infamous "macaca" moment occurred near Breaks, VA.

on edit: cleared all my fussy google earth maps :(

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3. Cspan's covering debate/vote (?) this afternoon.

From what I understand, the bill wants to cut funds to the doctors who accept medicare patients by 11%.

Isn't it hard enough to find doctors who accept medicare patients anyhow?

[benny05]

4. K & R

Glad Warner is on top of this!:hi:

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7. Hi benny !

:hi:

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5. Kicking for content.

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[maryf]

9. K, R, and done!

these folks ain't chopped liver! they need help!

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10. Kicking again ....

:hi:

[DailyGrind51]

11. I forwarded it to my regular e-mail, after signing, and sent it to my regular contacts!

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12. Thank you !

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