HR 818 (The Federal Acupuncture Coverage Act)

[Guest guest]

An Important Political Update:

A legislative update this week for all you folks. As you know we

have a new congress coming into session this January. Anyone who was

voted out stays home after December break and the newbies come in.

For everyone else it's business as usual with fresh scrubbed faces.

Only with a new direction and new leaders in control of both the

House and Senate, maybe it'll be a whole new business too.

What definitely happens is that any bill left unvoted on will

disappear. If the bill still has a sponsor then it can be re-

introduced to the new body. That is what will happen to our HR 818

(The Federal Acupuncture Coverage Act). It will not get voted this

December (most likely) and will in fact need to be re-introduced by

The Honorable Representative Maurice Hinchey, who did win reelection.

As you may have noted, Representative Hinchey has been very vocal in

the past year speaking out for Veterans and our Soldiers currently

serving in Iraq. This is not to say that he has forgotten about our

cause but it certainly wouldn't hurt to send him a reminder of how

much this bill means to each of us personally.

Generally one would only send a note of support or dislike to one's

own representatives. But in this case if you are able a note to

Representative Hinchey about how much it would mean to you for him to

re-introduce his bill would be extremely supportive. It wouldn't

take much of your time and would send a huge message to Congress

about how important this is not only to us but to our potential

patients.

If you do chose to send Representative Hinchey a note here are his

five home office addresses (mail gets through faster to a home office

than a Congressional office due to the extra screening in the Capitol

Building):

 

Middletown Office:

Office of Rep. Hinchey

City Hall, Third Floor

16 James St.

Middletown , NY 10940

 

Binghamton Office:

Office of Rep. Hinchey

100A Federal Building

Binghamton , NY 13901

 

Kingston Office:

Office of Rep. Hinchey

291 Wall Street

Kingston , NY 12401

Phone: (845) 331-4466

 

Ithaca Office:

Office of Rep Hinchey

123 S. Cayuga St. #201

Ithaca, NY 14850

 

Monticello Office:

Office of Rep. Hinchey

18 Anawana Lake Road

Monticello , NY 12701

[Guest guest]

On 11/28/06, ra6151 <ra6151 wrote:

Would someone be willing, without any invective, to briefly relate what HR

818 proposes?

 

 

First hit from a quick Google search:

 

<http://www.house.gov/hinchey/issues/acupuncture_factsheet.pdf>

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

me thinks that qualifies as an invective.

 

[catherineburr] wrote:

--- ra6151 wrote:

 

> Would someone be willing, without any invective, to

> briefly relate what HR

> 818 proposes?

>

> thanks,

> RoseAnne

>

 

http://www.house.gov/hinchey/issues/acupuncture_factsheet.pdf

 

I would think a lot of the thinking would be that it

would then also be helpful to those of us going to our

employers and health insurers and ask why Medicare

provides more benefits than they do.