Attention Physicians:

Sign the petition, plus 10

Have you signed the Stop the Medicare Meltdown petition yet? Have you asked your friends, family, and neighbors to sign it? If not, please do so today. Rarely has there been an issue as important to medicine as the impending Medicare crisis.

During the next three weeks, Congress again will debate the fate of the faulty payment formula Medicare uses to pay you. You must act now and sign the petition. You must let the members of Congress know that you and your patients are watching their every action and care deeply about this issue. Congressmen keep telling us that physicians don’t care because they never hear from them. Let’s prove to Congress that “PHYSICIANS AND PATIENTS DO CARE.”

TMA is asking every physician to sign the petition. After you sign it, please ask your friends, family, and neighbors to sign it until you get 10 signatures or more. If you belong to civic groups, take the petition with you to meetings.

We must get 1 million signatures by May 31. It’s imperative to your profession!

If you want hard copies of the petition, call Pam Udall at TMA (800) 880-1300, ext. 1382, or download one from the TMA website.

Note: Due to HIPAA regulations, we recommend that you not collect signatures directly from your patients nor use patient lists to disseminate this information without first having a HIPAA-compliant patient authorization to do so. However, you can point patients to the online petition using this poster.

Additional links:

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/meltdown/

Sign the petition online

http://www.texmed.org/uploadedFiles/Governmental_Affairs/U.S._Congress/MedicareMeltdownPetition.pdf

Print a hard copy of the Patient letter

http://www.texmed.org/uploadedFiles/Governmental_Affairs/U.S._Congress/MedicareMeltdownPetition3.pdf

Print a hard copy of the Petition

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