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Thu May 5, 2016, 01:50 PM May 2016

Stop CMS Medicare Part B Drug Payment Experiment

www.stopcmscuts.com

The Obama administration recently announced a manditory "experiment" that aims to charge how doctors treat America's most vulnerable patients with life-threatening diseases such as Cancer.

Government bureaucrats are targeting Medicare Part B, which covers drugs that have to be administered under close doctor and nurse supervision, including those to treat Cancer, Chron's disease, ulcerative colitis, primary immunodeficiency diseases, and other serious medical conditions.

Medicare plays a crucial role in the lives of more than 55.5 million Americans.
For many it's the only way they can afford the drugs that cure or keep them alive.
However, the experiment will jeopardize their care by inserting the government between doctor and patient with the goal of changing treatment decisions.

Everyone should be very concerned about this experiment on seniors' health care.
If implemented, it would effectively limit patient access to new drugs that the government decided are too expensive.
For example, the groundbreaking immunotherapy that put former President Jimmy Carter's brain cancer into remission would face barriers for Medicare patients if this experiment is allowed to proceed.

Please join us and over 300 cancer organizations, agencies and advocacy groups urging Congress to stop this ludicrous experiment before it's too late.

Contact Congress TODAY. Use the messages we have provided or write your own:
http://www.stopcmscuts.com

Call Congress TODAY:
202-683-7977

Call President Obama TODAY:
White House Comment line: 202-456-1111
White House Switchboard: 202-456-1414

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