Please check out this AMA link and sign ...

Please check out this AMA link and sign ...

http://www.patientsactionnetwork.org/mcadvocates/landingpages/survey.aspx?vndrno=57&adno=128

Don't let cuts in Medicare payments to doctors limit patients' access.

Tell Congress Today!

Dear Member of Congress

I'm writing to ask you to make sure America's patients continue to have access to their doctors by stopping drastic Medicare cuts.

If Congress doesn't act soon, Medicare will cut what it pays doctors who take care of America's seniors by a whopping 37 percent over the next nine years, including a 5 percent cut next year--and patients like me will suffer the consequences!

According to a recent American Medical Association survey, these cuts will force many doctors to downsize their practices, making it harder for patients all over the country to see their doctor. And just as troubling, a majority of doctors said they will be forced to stop making nursing home visits, discontinue important rural outreach programs, and put off buying critical new medical equipment and computer technology.

As it is, the Medicare program is stressed to the breaking point. Nearly two-thirds of doctors reported that more Medicare patients are now being treated in emergency rooms for conditions that could have been treated in a doctor'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.

Again, this situation is unacceptable. Please do all you can to protect our access to doctors by stopping these drastic Medicare physician cuts.

Thank you,
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http://www.patientsactionnetwork.org/mcadvocates/landingpages/survey.aspx?vndrno=57&adno=128

My wife is on medicare only and her doctors go above and beyond for her regardless, and now they want to cut medicare payments further, its pretty sad how this administration covets war over health care.

program designed to benefit the American people, the 80% - not the top 20% - to pay for their failed 'wars'.

May they rot in Hell.

Medicare (for seniors & the permanently disabled).

These cuts will serve only to make a bad situation much worse and it's all to put more money in the pockets of those who have and to fund this war of choice based on the LIES of BushCo and his RW (PNAC) cabal.