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Patients' Action Network: American Medical Association
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If Congress fails to act this year, Medicare will cut doctor payments by a whopping 5% on January 1, 2007, and as much as 3 7 % through 2015. So how do these Medicare cuts affect you? With health care expenses increasing and payments decreasing, many doctors will be forced to reduce the number of patients they can treat. And you or someone in your family may be one of these patients! Americans deserve better. In the coming weeks we will be asking the U.S. House and Senate to permanently reform Medicare and stop future cuts -- but Congress won't act un til you do !
Despite thousands of calls and e-mails from patients like you, on May 8 the U.S. Senate fell short of the 60 votes needed to end a filibuster of critical medical liability reform legislation . T he "Medical Care Access Protection Act of 2006," also known as S. 22, is common-sense legislation that would lower health care costs, stop frivolous lawsuits and keep good doctors in your community by reforming the current "jackpot justice" legal system that has made so many personal injury lawyers rich -- at your expense! Click here to see how your senators voted.
Every American pays for the broken medical liability system, which adds $70 to $126 billion dollars to the costs of health care each year. Your continued support for medical liability reform is vital , and the AMA’s Patient Action Network is committed to fighting for legislation that will put personal injury lawyers in their place so that you and your family don't have to worry about losing access to critical specialists like obstetricians and neurosurgeons.
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