Discrimination based on diagnosis--please defeat S. 1955.

[blondeatlast]

We need every person who opposes this GIVEAWAY to Big Insurance to call now--cloture vote is TOMORROW. Please--take some action--just a phone call will do.

I'm literally cyber-begging you, call your Senators NOW and tomorrow to defeat S. 1955, the Enzi FRAUD health care bill.

This is not the way to ensure health care for all--it merely strips away existing protections for those insured through small employers and is a slippery slope to making bare-bones, expensive group insurance the norm.

AARP/American Cancer Society/American diabetes association print ad:
http://www.diabetes.org/uedocuments/s1955.AARP.ADA.AHA.Ad.pdf

A likely scenario under the bill:
http://advocacy.diabetes.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AC_Enzi_Ratings

A fact sheet from the American Diabetes association:
http://www.diabetes.org/uedocuments/EnzifactsheetREV.pdf

This is a slippery slope bill--many states are counting on this legislation to pass and Republicans in state legislatures are writing bills to go along with the Enzi bill.

Thanks for your time--and for demonstrating that our diseased lives matter, too.

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Another thread linking to report on how horrible this bill is.

The Families USA report:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2613150

[blondeatlast]

2. Thanks--I wish DUers who are free of chronic diseases could understand

what's at stake, but I know it's difficult unless one is afflicted or knows someone who is.

Sigh...

[BrklynLiberal]

5. There but for the grace of .........

[ThomCat]

3. If this bill passes

and insurance companies act on it to raise their rates for anyone old or with a medical history I'm toast. I won't be around for long.

The small business I work for will not be able to afford insurance. I will loose access to medical care I can't live without.

This bill is nothing less than legal permission to let non-wealthy people die, slowly and painfully. It is state sponsored euthanasia is the most vicious possible way.

[blondeatlast]

4. You said it better than I could.

I appear quite healthy to most, but I've taken insulin for over 40 years and my secondary complications are gnawing me to death.

This bill is a KILLER for many of us--me included.

[BrklynLiberal]

6. That is EXACTLY what it is...in a nutshell.

:mad: :grr: :nuke:

[Mnemosyne]

7. First thing in the a.m. blondeatlast. n/t

[caligirl]

10. The vote will be sometime after 10 am eastern.

[Mnemosyne]

11. Thanks caligirl! Between this and the medicare part d

deadline I believe these are some of the most reprehensible legislations ever attempted.:grr:

[Frustratedlady]

8. I just finished emails to both of my senators.

Thank you for the heads up.

[pookieblue]

9. The National MS Society as well is against this...

http://capwiz.com/nmss/issues/alert/?alertid=8703136


I've emailed the sentators of my state, but I'm not holding out much hope, as they both are repubs.

Now, if the state reps were voting...I'd have a chance of getting thru. Oh well.

Keeping my fingers crossed and prayers going that this bill DOES NOT PASS.

this is bad, bad, bad news for anyone with a chronic diease. no scratch that. this is bad news for ALL of us.

[BrklynLiberal]

12. kick for more discussion.