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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Diabetes / March 2006Diabetes Community Unite Against S. 1955
S. 1955 will jeopardize lifesaving coverage protections for millions with diabetes by allowing health insurers to circumvent existing laws in 46 states that guarantee coverage for diabetes medications, supplies and training. We need your help! The Diabetes Community is enormous, passionate and wields a great deal of influence. We need your help in defeating S. 1955 and hope you will contact your Senator to stop this destructive bill. We have made it very easy for you to join the fight! Go to http://www.diabetesadvocacy.blogspot.com and click the Take Action Now! button or go directly to the ADA's site @ https://secure2.convio.net/adap/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction& id=792&AddInterest=2401 Thank you for the support in advance. I'm bumping this up to the top of the list because a lot of effort has gone into ensuring that American health insurance plans must cover the costs of diabetic testing, education and medications over the years. The passage of this legislation would jeopardize the coverage that protects diabetics throughout the US. I know many people here on asd are form other countries, and many probably find it hard to understand how the US could allow vast numbers of people to be without health coverage. But those of us who are from the US who post here will have to hang our heads a lot lower if this passes and even those who are lucky enough to have insuracne can no longer get their diabetes treated as part of their insurance. So if you are a US citizen, please click on the link above if this is the first time you have heard of this bill. If you already knew about it, but have not yet acted, What are you waiting for??? Morris > I'm bumping this up to the top of the list because a lot of effort has > gone into ensuring that American health insurance plans must cover the [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > the first time you have heard of this bill. If you already knew about > it, but have not yet acted, What are you waiting for??? You're confusing the google interface with a real newsreader. Reposting on the thread didn't change its order, and there's no link above. So, it's kind of hard for me to do the right thing. I know google makes it hard to quote what you're responding to, but it *is* do-able.  SignatureAF > So if you are a US citizen, please click on the link above if this is > the first time you have heard of this bill. If you already knew about > it, but have not yet acted, What are you waiting for??? A Senator, perhaps? I am a US Citizen. I live in the United States. I do not have a Senator. I don't have a voting representative in the House either. They are nice enough to allow us a non-voting delegate, just like the ones from non-federal-tax-paying territories like Guam, PR, VI. I live in the Nation's Capital. We get to look at democracy, and pay for it, fight for it, and die for it. We just don't get to vote on it. bj > I'm bumping this up to the top of the list because a lot of effort has > gone into ensuring that American health insurance plans must cover the [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > the first time you have heard of this bill. If you already knew about > it, but have not yet acted, What are you waiting for??? What link above? Priscilla My apologies, Priscilla. I meant the links in the original post on this thread by chiefoptimi.: http://www.diabetesadvocacy.blogspot.com/ or https://secure2.convio.net/adap/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=SplashPage& id=792&AddInterest=2401 Morris Forgive me for forgetting that you might see my post without his, which went like this: S. 1955 will jeopardize lifesaving coverage protections for millions with diabetes by allowing health insurers to circumvent existing laws in 46 states that guarantee coverage for diabetes medications, supplies and training. We need your help! The Diabetes Community is enormous, passionate and wields a great deal of influence. We need your help in defeating S. 1955 and hope you will contact your Senator to stop this destructive bill. We have made it very easy for you to join the fight! Go to http://www.diabetesadvocacy.blogspot.com and click the Take Action Now! button or go directly to the ADA's site @ https://secure2.convio.net/adap/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=... Thank you for the support in advance. > > I'm bumping this up to the top of the list because a lot of effort has > > gone into ensuring that American health insurance plans must cover the [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Priscilla > My apologies, Priscilla. > > I meant the links in the original post on this thread by chiefoptimi.: > > http://www.diabetesadvocacy.blogspot.com/ Thanks. That website identified me in an unmodifiable section of the message as an ADA volunteer. I am not, so I went to my senator's pages and contacted them in email through there. Priscilla Priscilla, My bad, I guess. I am not an ADA volunteer either. When I go there my name is entered into the forms to send the email, but I thought that was just because I have emailed from there before, and they were reading my cookies. I didn't reallize that if I hadn't previously been there it would have thought that I had. Did they think you were a specific volunteer? May I ask whom they thought you were? I will see if I can up with a more generic web address to accomplish the same purpose Morris (who is truly mystified by how cookies and cyberspace sometimes works) > > My apologies, Priscilla. > > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Priscilla Morris, it was not cookies, rather the actual message to the right of the window which said this: "Don't Bypass State Insurance Coverage Requirements! Dear [Decision Maker], As an American Diabetes Association volunteer, I know how hard it can be to manage diabetes well. Without access to adequate health care, it would be impossible. For that reason, I oppose S. 1955, which will remove required coverage of diabetes needs in state-regulated health insurance plans. Please personalize your message" and then the window for personalization. HTH Billie in AR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ : Morris (who is truly mystified by how cookies and cyberspace sometimes : works) [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] : > : > Priscilla Thanks for making that clear, Billie. At times I seem to miss some really obvious stuff. I have asked for an easy way to send an email opposing the legislation without claiming to be an ADA volunteer, and may well get an answer tomorrow. Will post when I have it. Morris > Morris, it was not cookies, rather the actual message to the right of the window which said > this: [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > : > > : > Priscilla > I have asked for an easy way to send an email opposing the legislation > without claiming to be an ADA volunteer, Find the name & address of your congresspeople and write them a letter or email. Or phone them. You can find out the addresses by starting at www.firstgov.gov and clicking through from there. It's a site worth exploring. For the Senate, see http://www.senate.gov/ and more particularly http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm You already know the legislation you want to comment on. An individual letter or message might even get more attention than one that is obviously just another part of an organized campaign. bj Thanks, BJ. I did not have these links bookmarked on this computer, and now I can do it. Much appreciation. Billie ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ : Find the name & address of your congresspeople and write them a letter or : email. Or phone them. [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] : is obviously just another part of an organized campaign. : bj > > I have asked for an easy way to send an email opposing the legislation > > without claiming to be an ADA volunteer, [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > is obviously just another part of an organized campaign. > bj Yes, I thought of that being an additional benefit. I "borrowed" a sentence from the canned email, then built my own around it, using my own situation and logic. Once I had it perfected for one senator, I could just cut and paste it into the email to the other one. Priscilla I received the following response fromthe Forum Moderator on the ADA Board: "Thanks for the heads up, I checked and here is the answer. Please feel free to post it on a.s.d. if you want. >From ADA's perspective, mentioning ADA early in the process is important and referring to someone who is taking action for ADA's fight for improving the lives of people with diabetes as a "volunteer" is meant to convey gratitude and nothing more. By taking this action, you are a volunteer." In response, I pointed out that there are people who are very opposed to this legislation who would not want to self-identify as ADA volunteers and that as a result of this wording people would be required to write up their own private emails and to search out the addresses of their Senators, and thus less likely to weigh in on this issue. I am delighted, however, to read here that some people here are willing to make that extra effort and encourage more of you to stand up for the principle that health insurance in the United States MUST continue to include diabetes care. And yes, it is a known fact that individually written letters have more impact than identical letters that are part of an organized campaign. So thank you for being so pro-active and involved. Morris > Thanks for making that clear, Billie. At times I seem to miss some > really obvious stuff. [quoted text clipped - 39 lines] > > : > > > : > Priscilla |
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