Ensure Medicare Patient Access to Cancer Care
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Jul 21st, 2010Someone from Clark, NJ signed.
Jul 14th, 2010Someone from Saint Louis, MO writes:
Having been through the Gamma Knife, while for neurosurgery and not for oncology, I had to consult both a neurosurgeon and a radiation oncologist. I sat in the same waiting room--the size of a basketball court--at a very large cancer center. It bewilders me that CMS would reduce those payments--radiation oncology is lifesaving tool that improves the quality of life for some patients, extends the lives of others, sometimes to the point they're cancer-free. I'd urge--no, better yet, I challenge those voting for the cuts to sit in one of those waiting rooms, talk with even one patient, and tell them and their family that today is their last surgical procedure. I've challenged an entire state legislative committee to get on a bus and show up and sit across a kitchen table from and explain to their own constituents why they cutting services for the elderly and disabled. Not surprisingly, even the State Legislator who lived in an affected area couldn't tell his neighbors. Within a week, after having their phones bursting non-stop for a week with calls from not only every lobbyist but also every ordinary citizen in the state, most who opposed flipped and passed the legislation that restored services. I guess that's easier than talking to your constituents. They and their families will talk, though--on Election Day. I don't work there--but right before you decide to finalize that schedule, I challenge you to get yourselves right up the street to 23rd & K Streets, NW and tell a dying patient you're about to head back down K Street and Pennsylvania Avenue to pull their plug. (I won't buy the excuse that Foggy Bottom and the edge of Georgetown is a bad part of town. I have felt less safe in the immediate vicinity of The Capitol itself--in broad daylight.) The following is quoted right from the website of a very reputable, very close place where you can find those patients: GWU's Radiation Oncology Center, at 2300 K St. NW: "Imagine a machine that helps doctors plan radiation treatments for cancer patients with greater precision than ever before. Imagine equipment so sophisticated that it fashions a radiation beam to match the shape of a cancerous tumor. Such high-tech wonders aren't merely a cancer patient's dream for the future. They are a reality at The George Washington University Hospital's Radiation Oncology Center....This innovative technology offers new hope to some cancer patients who may have had more limited treatment options in the past"REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 9th, 2010Someone from Las Vegas, NV signed.
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Jun 29th, 2010Someone from Philadelphia, PA signed.
Jun 26th, 2010Someone from Port Orange, FL signed.
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Jun 25th, 2010Someone from Fort Lauderdale, FL signed.
Jun 23rd, 2010Someone from Houston, TX signed.
May 25th, 2010Someone from Halethorpe, MD signed.
May 11th, 2010Someone from Magnolia, TX signed.
Apr 29th, 2010Someone from Wagoner, OK signed.
Apr 24th, 2010Someone from Muncie, IN signed.
Apr 20th, 2010Someone from Dallas, TX signed.
Apr 18th, 2010Someone from Sioux Falls, SD signed.
Apr 1st, 2010Someone from West Haven, CT signed.
Mar 31st, 2010Someone from Newtown, CT writes:
This Health Care Bill is Un-American and Un-Constitutional!! What does "Ration Health Care" Mean???????? Why does the Government have DIRECT ACCESS to my Bank accounts??? How is this "only" costing 940 million dollars and where is this money coming from?? This is not the America I was born in. We are not a Communist Nation! Why is Massachusetts bankrupt? Because they tried a State-wide Universal Health Care and IT DID NOT WORK!! Why can't the President do a "Test Run" of this bill in his Beloved Illinois?? BECAUSE IT WILL BANKRUPT THEM!! Just like it will BANKRUPT THE Entire Country!!!! Where was the news coverage of the thousands of people protesting when this bill was signed!! It's time for us to TAKE AMERICAN BACK!!!!!!!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 31st, 2010Someone from Richmond, VA signed.
Mar 31st, 2010Someone from Tieton, WA signed.
Mar 31st, 2010Someone from Moseley, VA signed.
Mar 29th, 2010Someone from Oxford, GA signed.
Mar 28th, 2010Someone from Valley Springs, CA signed.
Mar 26th, 2010Someone from Fort Worth, TX writes:
This horriblecare is bad for America. Stop the medicare cuts for all illnesses and needs. We have paid into medicare since it's inception. Stop spending and start paying our doctors and hospitals the necessary fees for us. The only RIGHT thing to do is to implement that mandates the administration (including the president), Congress and Senate to obtain their insurance that matches medicare, if it is good enough for us it should be good enough for everyone.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 26th, 2010Someone from Worcester, MA signed.
Mar 26th, 2010Someone from Friday Harbor, WA signed.
Mar 25th, 2010Someone from Spencerport, NY signed.
Mar 25th, 2010Someone from New Albany, OH signed.
Mar 24th, 2010Someone from Provo, UT writes:
This bill will cripple our nation. It is a good theory but will not work and will cause more harm than good. Obama is killing this country every minute he is in office. He is making the country what he wants it to be and not what the people want. People complained about George W. Bush, but Bush did a lot more good for this country even with taking them to 2 wars than Obama has done with bringing "change."REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 24th, 2010Someone from Chelsea, OK writes:
DO NOT PASS THIS HEALTHCARE BILL I AGREE WE HAVE TO REFORM HEALTHCARE BUT THIS IS NOT THE WAY TO DO IT. SCRAP THIS BILL AND START OVER. THIS HEALTHCARE DOES NOT BENEFIT ANY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 23rd, 2010Someone from Valley Springs, CA signed.
Mar 22nd, 2010Someone from Franklin Furnace, OH writes:
This isn't Health Care. Call it by what it is: Health Control! This is a way for Congress to steal our money for 4 years which won't be put in a 'lock box' but will be spent faster than it is collected!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 21st, 2010Someone from Forest Hill, MD signed.
Mar 21st, 2010Someone from Valley Springs, CA signed.
Mar 20th, 2010Someone from Warrenton, VA signed.
Mar 20th, 2010Someone from San Juan Capistrano, CA writes:
don,t pass this health care bill, we need tort reform ,open state bidding and other reforms but certainly not the current 2000+ page bill with federal funding for abortion, your relection depends on your voteREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 20th, 2010Someone from Glenns Ferry, ID writes:
WE DO NOT WANT YOUR HEALTH CARE!!!!!!!! STOP RAMMING IT DOWN OUR THROATS!!! WHY DON'T YOU LISTEN TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!!! YOU ARE WAKING A SLEEPING GIANT!!!!!!!REPORT COMMENTS
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