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LEGISLATIVE ACTION ALERT PREVENT GOVERNMENT RATIONING OF LIFESAVING TREATMENT AND DRUGS UNDER MEDICARE.(Brief Article)

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A Senate-House Conference Committee, in the context of a bill to add a prescription drug benefit to Medicare, is now making decisions that could affect whether older Americans live, or die because they are prevented from using their own money to avoid involuntary denial of lifesaving medical treatment and drugs. (See front page story for details.)

URGENT: Please contact your representative in the U.S. Congress with this basic message:

In order to protect senior citizens' lives, we must ensure their right to get unrationed medical care and an unrationed prescription drug benefit under Medicare. We must not prohibit older Americans from adding their own money, if ...

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