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Actual Letter from Oncologist: RE: Sequestration

Posted on 04/02/2013 1:33:14 PM PDT by Toespi

My brother-in-law is fighting stage 4 prostate cancer. He just received this letter from his oncologist:

April 2, 2013

Dear Patients and Friends of The Zangmeister Cancer Center,

You may have heard about "sequestration," the automatic spending cuts to defense, education, healthcare and other programs that are the result of the failure of Congress to compromise on how to responsibly rein in spending. Unfortunately, sequestration will have a severe adverse impact on cancer care. That's because it will cut payments to providers – your physician – for chemotherapy and other critical cancer drugs, paying for most at below cost. If these cuts are allowed to stay in place it will force further cancer clinic closings and push cancer care into higher-cost settings for patients and taxpayers. In the past 2 years in Ohio, several practices have moved to higher cost settings raising the costs of cancer care in their communities.

The Administration should not include cancer drugs as part of the sequester cut, but has ignored current law that clearly defines payment for these drugs. Here are ways you can respond and help:

You can help by signing an official White House petition to stop the sequester cut to cancer drugs. Simply do the following: Go to http://wh.gov/HDEm Click on the "Set Up Account" button, which simply requires your name, email address and zip code to verify you are a real, unique person. Wait a few minutes to get an email from the White House with a link to the petition to sign. This email may appear in your “Junk” folder. Click on the link in the email to sign. It's that simple! When we get 100,000 signatures in 30 days, the White House has to respond to the petition.


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KEYWORDS: cancer; healthcare; obamacare; sequestration
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1 posted on 04/02/2013 1:33:14 PM PDT by Toespi
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To: Toespi

What a heartless bastard Obama is.


2 posted on 04/02/2013 1:35:00 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: driftdiver

I hate him to the depths of my being. Yes, I am a hater. of evil.


3 posted on 04/02/2013 1:36:06 PM PDT by Student0165
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To: Toespi

In sum, please keep printed Gov’t Bernanke money flowing, to allow the continuous blowing-up the cost bubble of the medical-industrial complex!

Your life depends on it!


4 posted on 04/02/2013 1:36:46 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: PGR88

I forgot to mention, please take the time to sign the WH petition. Many lives depend on it!


5 posted on 04/02/2013 1:39:08 PM PDT by Toespi
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To: Student0165

I thought for a second this might be a late april fools joke. Nobody could do something like this, right?

A simple web search returned site after site with articles on this.


6 posted on 04/02/2013 1:39:10 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: driftdiver

Why, just why should we have to google for this information? It should be breaking news on EVERY news outlet. I am sickened.


7 posted on 04/02/2013 1:41:28 PM PDT by Toespi
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To: Toespi

He is just heartless and cruel. He sends this while he goes off on lavish vacations at the taxpayers expense. There are no words, and he has no shame.


8 posted on 04/02/2013 1:42:04 PM PDT by Essie
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To: Toespi
Uh, oh! Congress will be in full harrumph mode soon.

A law must be passed to prevent any such cutbacks from ever happening again.

One more law ought to create utopia.

9 posted on 04/02/2013 1:43:40 PM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (Tax laws are complex and may change at any time.)
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To: Aevery_Freeman

There actually is a law already, Obama is ignoring it.


10 posted on 04/02/2013 1:44:53 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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11 posted on 04/02/2013 1:45:30 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Somebody has to be courageous enough to stand up to the bullies." --Dr. Ben Carson)
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To: Essie

-— There are no words, and he has no shame. -—

All I needed to know was that he voted in favor of allowing babies, born of botched abortions, to die of exposure.

He is capable of any evil.


12 posted on 04/02/2013 1:47:04 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas
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To: Toespi
But but but but I thought the Democrats are the Party of the little guy- gee who can you trust - the media or your own lying eyes?
13 posted on 04/02/2013 1:47:17 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Toespi

Keep going on lavish, multi-million dollar vacations at taxpayer expense while killing off the poor cancer victims, eh? Well, he did tell us that “elections have consequences.”


14 posted on 04/02/2013 1:47:47 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (()
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To: driftdiver

If the left will politicize soldiers’ and civilians’ deaths and the weather, they will politicize ANYTHING.

The ends always justify the means, as long as one is a Democrat.


15 posted on 04/02/2013 1:51:03 PM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: Toespi

He must have learned this from Romney. /s


16 posted on 04/02/2013 1:54:34 PM PDT by raybbr (People who still support Obama are either a Marxist or a moron. No, they are both.)
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To: driftdiver

Unfortunately BO won...we lost...and if I remember this then nothing at all surprises me this adminstration does....nor the speed in which they will attempt to do their dastardly deeds....they have the wheel....the most we can do is put obstacles in the way...and our guys aren’t doing that...thus we see what we see going down.


17 posted on 04/02/2013 2:07:28 PM PDT by caww
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To: Student0165

+1
18 posted on 04/02/2013 2:09:13 PM PDT by tomkat ( .. shall NOT be infringed)
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To: Toespi

So, the Death panels do exist. By 0bama’s hand.

Mr. Duck, Dodge and Dive. He could have had as much discretions as he or any of the agencies needed to trim around the edges of excess...but NO, let them pay, is his motto. Uniter, my a@$.


19 posted on 04/02/2013 2:10:09 PM PDT by SueRae (It isn't over. In God We Trust.)
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To: driftdiver

Just TRY and get someone in the MSM to cover this! Just try!


20 posted on 04/02/2013 2:11:39 PM PDT by kjo (+)
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