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Tell Congress Not to Listen to Conservatives for Patients' Rights
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  2. Created By
    Mark Drummond
    Seattle, WA
About this Petition Petition Letter

"Firing some of the first shots in the coming showdown over health care, a conservative group led by the former owner of the Hospital Corporation of America is beginning a multimillion-dollar campaign Tuesday in opposition to government-run coverage.

Conservatives for Patients Rights is going on TV, radio and the Web in the same week President Barack Obama hosts a health care summit at the White House. The group's leader, Richard Scott, is hoping a pro-free-market message will rally the right to join the fray on what may be the most hard-fought policy battle in the first year of the new administration."
--Politico.com (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/19542.html)

Richard Scott and Conservatives for Patients' Rights are trying to help their friends out by stopping reform that America deperately needs. Please sign our petition to tell Congress  to stop obstructing progress by spewing his failed "free-market" dogma.

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America Wants Universal Health Care... Don't Listen to Conservatives for Patients' Rights

Dear Congressman,

Richard Scott's Conservatives for Patients' Rights radio ad says: "Imagine waking up one day and all your medical decisions are made by a central national board. Bureaucrats decide the treatments you receive, the drugs you take, even the doctors you see."

The "one day" Scott imagines is the reality millions of Americans live with right now. I am not free to make the medical decisions I want because of my health insurance company. <b>They</b> make all my medical decisions for me. <b>They</b> decide what treatments I receive, medication I take, and the doctor I see. I have no control over what kind of treatment I get. If my insurance company doesn't want to pay for it, then I don't get it. If <b>they</b> think a medication is too expensive, they'll give me a cheaper, less effective, one. I have to call several doctors' offices everytime I want to go to the doctor. I never know what doctor my insurance company will cover because they change it around all the time without telling me.

This stakeholder-funded campaign is against the grain of American society. Americans know that their health insurance companies have failed them. Conservatives for Patients' Rights are trying to keep the status quo in place, and that status quo is killing people, literally. Scott's paranoid claims of a distopian health insurance future is already happening, and the people running CPR set up that system.

We don't need more people scaring us into accepting the failed "free-market" approach to basic health services; instead, we need to make reform a reality and help millions of Americans out of debt and into a healthier life.

[Your name]

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