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Feb. 5th, 2004 04:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mik3capDear MoveOn Member,
When Congress passed the new Medicare law last fall, one thing was immediately clear: it is not seniors who will benefit, but rather the drug companies and HMOs. With hundreds of billions of tax dollars at stake, our leaders failed to control the spiraling costs we're facing for health care.
Now you can do something powerful about it. You can meet directly with your Representative or their staff and tell them that millions of Americans want Congress to stand up to the drug and insurance industries and "take back Medicare" from the special interests. You can sign up now to participate, at:
http://meetings.TakeBackMedicare.org
A face-to-face meeting is the single most effective way to make your voice heard. We've teamed up with the Campaign for America's Future, the Alliance for Retired Americans, and USAction to organize a meeting with the office of your Representative, James P. McGovern, during the week of the congressional recess, Feb. 16-20.
Many MoveOn.org members took action opposing the Medicare bill, but unfortunately it passed, under cover of darkness with much last-minute arm-twisting. MoveOn.org's call for people to resign from the AARP, in protest of that organization's support of the bogus bill, contributed to at least 50,000 people quitting the AARP and calling for stronger Medicare benefits.
Most Americans are skeptical - many downright angry - about the President's Medicare law. Most seniors and others oppose the law, and with good reason:
--It prohibits Medicare from bringing down drug prices by negotiating bulk discounts, leading to $139 billion in new drug company profits.
--Many middle-class retirees and low-income people will lose their current drug coverage.
--It subsidizes HMOs to compete with and undermine Medicare, to the tune of billions of dollars in new subsidies.
Please join in meeting with your Representative's office and call on Congress to replace the Bush drug deal with a real Medicare prescription drug law that will reduce drug prices and provide a real benefit for seniors. Sign up at:
http://meetings.TakeBackMedicare.org
We hope you can make it. Thank you.
Sincerely,
--Adam Ruben
MoveOn.org
Thursday, February 5, 2004
P.S. For more information on Medicare, visit the Campaign for America's Future
When Congress passed the new Medicare law last fall, one thing was immediately clear: it is not seniors who will benefit, but rather the drug companies and HMOs. With hundreds of billions of tax dollars at stake, our leaders failed to control the spiraling costs we're facing for health care.
Now you can do something powerful about it. You can meet directly with your Representative or their staff and tell them that millions of Americans want Congress to stand up to the drug and insurance industries and "take back Medicare" from the special interests. You can sign up now to participate, at:
http://meetings.TakeBackMedicare.org
A face-to-face meeting is the single most effective way to make your voice heard. We've teamed up with the Campaign for America's Future, the Alliance for Retired Americans, and USAction to organize a meeting with the office of your Representative, James P. McGovern, during the week of the congressional recess, Feb. 16-20.
Many MoveOn.org members took action opposing the Medicare bill, but unfortunately it passed, under cover of darkness with much last-minute arm-twisting. MoveOn.org's call for people to resign from the AARP, in protest of that organization's support of the bogus bill, contributed to at least 50,000 people quitting the AARP and calling for stronger Medicare benefits.
Most Americans are skeptical - many downright angry - about the President's Medicare law. Most seniors and others oppose the law, and with good reason:
--It prohibits Medicare from bringing down drug prices by negotiating bulk discounts, leading to $139 billion in new drug company profits.
--Many middle-class retirees and low-income people will lose their current drug coverage.
--It subsidizes HMOs to compete with and undermine Medicare, to the tune of billions of dollars in new subsidies.
Please join in meeting with your Representative's office and call on Congress to replace the Bush drug deal with a real Medicare prescription drug law that will reduce drug prices and provide a real benefit for seniors. Sign up at:
http://meetings.TakeBackMedicare.org
We hope you can make it. Thank you.
Sincerely,
--Adam Ruben
MoveOn.org
Thursday, February 5, 2004
P.S. For more information on Medicare, visit the Campaign for America's Future