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NRL News
Legislative Action Alert: Congress is now making decisions that could affect whether older Americans live or die because they are prevented from using their own money to avoid involuntary denial of lifesaving medical treatment and drugs. (See front page story for details.) URGENT! Please contact both your senators in the U.S. Congress with this basic message: In order to protect senior citizens’ lives, we must ensure their right to get unrationed medical care and an unrationed prescription drug benefit under Medicare. We must not prohibit older Americans from adding their own money, if they wish, to get unrationed insurance. Please: 1. Oppose repeal of the “private fee-for-service” option in Medicare. 2. Vote AGAINST cloture on a bill that would impose government drug price-fixing in Medicare, thus limiting older Americans’ access to innovative lifesaving drugs when they choose to add their own money to get a private fee-for-service plan. –Because of post-9-11 security screening requirements, postal mail, to be effective, is best sent to the LOCAL instead of the Washington office, which you may locate in your local phone book or by going to http://[insert senator’s last name].senate.gov. –You can send an e-mail by going to www.nrlc.org, clicking on Legislative Action Center, clicking on the Medicare link in the left column, and following the links to take action; and/or –You can call your senator’s state office (see local phone book) or go through the Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121. |