ACTION needed: National Call In Day May 3 Stop Lose Your Health Care

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May 3, which begins in 20 minutes, is National Call in day to stop the Lose Your Health Care Bill. I am posting a copy of the consumerwatchdog alert I received that has pertinent information. As I find them, I will post talking points for the medical issues in the bill your concerned about, like womens health care, diabetes, cancer screenings. If you have these, please post.

National Call-In Day to Stop Junk Insurance: Call Wednesday, May 3rd!
Call 1-800-828-0498 on May 3rd and tell your Senators to VOTE NO on S. 1955.

Your faxes slowed the progress of the junk health insurance bill under consideration in the U.S. Senate. Now, join Americans across the country for a national call-in day and tell your Senators to VOTE NO on S. 1955 to protect your health care and stop junk insurance.


Call 1-800-828-0498 on the national call-in day, Wednesday, May 3rd.
Call before 5PM Eastern Time. You will be connected with the Senate switchboard. Ask for your Senator's office.
Tell the person who answers, or leave a message: Stop junk health insurance and VOTE NO on S. 1955. The line may be busy on your first try, so keep dialing.
Call 1-800-828-0498 again, ask for your second U.S. Senator, and leave your message with that office too.
Don't know who both of your U.S. Senators are? Click here to search by state.

Learn more about the bill. S. 1955 (Enzi-WY) will take away state patient protections and allow HMOs and insurers to replace your real health coverage with junk policies. A vote could be scheduled as early as this week, or we could stop it in its tracks. Call your Senators today!

Key Issues at Stake:

Everyone's existing comprehensive coverage could be replaced by junk policies that ignore state Patients' Bill of Rights laws passed in 41 states.
Insurers could sell inferior coverage at higher rates based on our gender, age, and where we live even though this type of discrimination is illegal in many states.
Essential state protections such as the right to visit an OB/GYN, cancer screenings, bans on "drive thru" deliveries, and guaranteed second opinions are at risk.

Patients who buy this kind of junk insurance are left with hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical bills because their plans cover only a fraction of the real costs of health care. Click here to read some of these patients' stories.
And tune in to a discussion of how the bill will effect your health coverage on the PBS show NOW this Friday, May 5th.

The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights is a nationally recognized non-profit and non-partisan consumer watchdog. Visit us on the web at ConsumerWatchdog.org.
SEnate listings by name http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

1. What women will lose if it passes as is, chart:http://www.ppaction.org/network/himmaa_web.html

2.Diabetes:http://advocacy.diabetes.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AC_EnziCall&autologin=true&AddInterest=2401&JServSessionIdr010=zatnsdqeb1.app28a

3.http://www.nwlc.org/details.cfm?id=2690§ion=health


Please help keep this kicked. Similar information was also posted by Georgia10 at Dailykos, it was done earlier May 2.

The bill is set for May 8th at this point and time but keep your ears and eyes open for any changes. We have mounted a serious amount of opposition to this, we being DU and many other groups and blog sites(and there are a ton working to stop this bill).

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1. I have written my Senator-He will not vote for it (Feingold)

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2. Not only will he vote against it, he has said he supports a filibuster.

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5. hey, I did not know that. thanks

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8. someone here who attended a town mtg in his district said this

was what Feingold said to the group. It was a a couple of weeks ago or more.

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3. DailyKos thread here

Think Medicare Pt. D is bad? Brace Yourself for the Enzi Bill
by Families USA
Tue May 02, 2006 at 12:11:27 PM PDT

Promoted from the diaries by georgia10. This is a very, very dangerous bill.

From the folks who brought you Medicare Part D(isaster), here's yet another bad idea for health care reform: the so-called Health Insurance Marketplace Modernization and Affordability Act (S.1955), known here in the Beltway as the "Enzi Bill." From the bill's intro:

...to expand health care access and reduce costs through the creation of small business health plans and through modernization of the health insurance marketplace.

Sounds harmless enough, right? In reality, this is an extremely dangerous bill that, if passed, could jeopardize the health care of 85 million Americans. Find out why after the jump. If you can't wait to do something, a coalition of national organizations is sponsoring a national call-in day tomorrow, May 3rd. Please take a minute tomorrow to call your Senators, toll free--1-800-828-0498--and tell them to vote NO on the Enzi bill.

* Families USA's diary :: Permalink ::
* There's more... (159 comments)

permalink: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/5/2/151127/2173

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4. k and n

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6. Its now near 12:30 am in my area, gotta get some sleep, please give this

a kick to keep it on the front page for the day.

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7. Blog search pages of blogs and online news posted about the bill

http://www.blogsearchengine.com/search.php?q=s1955&tab=blog

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9. Kick, Fax machines are really busy. I can't get through to Snowe

or COllins fax right now.