Managed Care Reform HR2723

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The following is a suggested letter to your US Congressman in support of

the Bi-Partisan Managed Care Reform Bill:

Dear Representative...

I am asking you to support H.R. 2723, the Bipartisan Consensus Managed

Care Improvement Act, introduced by Congressmen Charlie Norwood (R-GA),

Dingell (D-MI) and Greg Ganske (R-IA).

  The bill would:

· provide patients access to an enforceable and timely independent

external review;

· guarantee that patients have access to specialists;

· ensure that medical decisions are made by doctors and their

patients; and

· give patients the ability to hold HMOs legally accountable when they

make medical decisions that harm patients.

Our current Managed Care System clearly puts profits before the health

of our citizens and cannot be allowed to continue without these needed

reforms. This issue is truly a matter of life and death and we are

looking to our legislators to defend our right to decent medical care

through passage of HR2723

Sincerely,

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I took part of this from the letter suggested at

www.patientadvocacy.org.

TO find the e-mail address of your representative go to

www.visi.com/juan/congress/

PLEASE WRITE YOUR REP. The bill certainly doesn't answer all the

problems with our medical. system, but it is the best thing we might get

now. And being able to sue HMO's will make a big difference.

Ellen

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Hi,

Found this letter on another list and it is pertaintent here also!

Take care,

Christie

Subject: Managed Care Reform HR2723

The following is a suggested letter to your US Congressman in support of

the Bi-Partisan Managed Care Reform Bill:

Dear Representative...

I am asking you to support H.R. 2723, the Bipartisan Consensus Managed

Care Improvement Act, introduced by Congressmen Charlie Norwood (R-GA),

Dingell (D-MI) and Greg Ganske (R-IA).

=A0=A0The bill would:

=B7 provide patients access to an enforceable and timely independent

external review;

=B7 guarantee that patients have access to specialists;

=B7 ensure that medical decisions are made by doctors and their

patients; and

=B7 give patients the ability to hold HMOs legally accountable when they

make medical decisions that harm patients.

Our current Managed Care System clearly puts profits before the health

of our citizens and cannot be allowed to continue without these needed

reforms. This issue is truly a matter of life and death and we are

looking to our legislators to defend our right to decent medical care

through passage of HR2723

Sincerely,

-----------

I took part of this from the letter suggested at

www.patientadvocacy.org.

TO find the e-mail address of your representative go to

www.visi.com/juan/congress/

PLEASE WRITE YOUR REP. The bill certainly doesn't answer all the

problems with our medical. system, but it is the best thing we might get

now. And being able to sue HMO's will make a big difference.