Internet Petition on Patients' Rights in Managed Care

[Peter Marshall <techdiff@ix.netcom.com>]

From: owner-familiesusamc@list1.channel1.com
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999
Subject: From_Families_USA: Patient's Rights Petition

The Internet Petition on Patients'
Rights in Managed Care has been getting a lot of
attention, and has about 20,000 signers.


We'd greatly appreciate your help in promoting
the petition. We don't have a specific ending date
before we present it to the Congressional
leadership, but it's a good public education tool
to alert people to the need for HMO reform. We
hope you'll let your colleagues, friends, and
family know about it.

Again, the petition is at:
www.familiesusa.org/pbr .

You can also get to it from the Families USA home
page at www.familiesusa.org, and you can get more
background on the issues at
www.familiesusa.org/managedcare

And if you can't access the petition, or have
trouble signing on to it, just send your name and
state to Tina Khoie at Families USA
tkhoie@familiesusa.org and we'll enter it for you.
You can also print out a text version of the
petition from the site, or ask us to send you a
copy which you can get people to sign and then
return to us and we'll enter the names. For help
or questions, contact tkhoie@familiesusa.org.

And for those of you having meetings or events
around patients' rights, we have colorful lapel
stickers that we'd be happy to send you ("Support
the REAL Patients' Bill of Rights; Don't be Fooled
by Imposters"). Contact Tina if you are
interested.

We appreciate your cooperation in the fight for
patients' rights. To Your Health!

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