Listen Live - Bush Drug Deadline - Wed 4/19 Webcast

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Dear Mary,

Please join us this Wednesday, April 19th at 12:00pm EST for a live webcast

and question-answer session with Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA) and Sen. Debbie Stabenow

(D-MI) on the fight to extend President Bush's impending prescription drug

sign-up deadline. Rep. Stark has introduced a bill to extend the existing May

15th deadline so that seniors who don't sign-up by this date don't get hit by

the current law's lifetime payment penalty. Sen. Stabenow (D-MI) is leading the

fight against Bush's " Part D " prescription drug disaster in the Senate.

Please RSVP to listen live online, and submit questions for response to these

lawmakers and other grassroots organizers leading efforts to fix the Part D

disaster. Space is limited to the first 2,000 RSVPs.

Click here to RSVP!

In less than one month, millions of America's seniors and disabled will be

forced to enroll in President Bush's disastrous Part D prescription drug plan—or

face a lifetime payment penalty for the medications they need. Responding to a

woman who said her mother was having trouble navigating the maze of options and

finding a plan she could trust would cover her needs, President Bush quipped,

" Rolling back good deadlines is not going to help your mom make a good

decision. " 1

The fact is it's not possible to make a " good decision " about a plan that

can't negotiate for the lowest possible drug prices,2 and locks you into a

limited menu of medications3 regardless of how your health might change.

That's why the Campaign for America's Future and the American's United

coalition have launched a campaign to press Congress to extend the impending

Part D deadline and fix the President's prescription drug disaster. There are

two ways you can help:

 

Again, please RSVP to join us this Wednesday, April 19th at 12:00pm EST to

listen live online, and submit questions for response to the lawmakers and

organizers fighting to eliminate the Part D deadline, and fix the President's

prescription drug disaster. Click here to RSVP!

 

Whether or not you're able to join us on Wednesday, please write your

lawmakers to demand that Congress extend the Part D deadline and deliver a

simple prescription drug plan that works foremost for Americas seniors, disabled

and taxpayers—not the big pharmaceutical and insurance companies. Click here

to Take Action!

 

Seniors and their families are being driven crazy by the complex drug plan

written by the drug industry lobbyists. The last thing America needs is an

unforgiving and unreasonable deadline and penalty that tries to force citizens

to sign up for the President's costly sell out to the drug and insurance

companies. Instead, Americans deserve a simple and effective prescription drug

plan run by Medicare that's required to negotiate for the lowest possible drug

prices and guarantees coverage regardless of how one's health changes.

The President's unforgiving Part D deadline hits on May 15th, 2006. Please

listen live online this Wednesday to hear more about how you can help force

politicians to extend the deadline. And, press your lawmakers today to extend

the deadline, and deliver a prescription drug plan that works first and foremost

for America's seniors, disabled and taxpayers.

Click here to RSVP for the live webcast!

Click here to press your lawmakers to extend the deadline!

Thank you again for all that you do.

Sincerely,

 

Roger Hickey, Co-Director

Campaign for America's Future

 

 

1 Brendan Murray, " Bush Says He Opposes Extending Deadline for Medicare

Enrollment, " bloomberg.com, March 15, 2006.

2 Public Campaign Action Fund, Campaign Money Watch, " Big Pharma's Big Money

and Bush's Medicare Plan, " January 2004.

3 " Insurer alters Medicare drug list, " Times Leader (Wilkes Barre), April 5,

2006

 

 

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