http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/lymeactionpa(don't forget to uncheck promotional boxes at the close of the petition form if you don't want to receive things from Care2).
PA Senate Lyme Bill #1199, Wtr/Spring 2010
Target:
Senator Don White, Chair of Banking&Insurance Committee reviewing Bill.
Sponsored by:
MontCoLyme, York County Lyme, LDA-SEPA, Lyme Society.
This petition asks for ACTION on PA Senate Lyme Bill #1199 (2010) regarding Lyme Disease.
We are asking the Senate Banking & Insurance committee to take action: consider this bill and hold a public hearing.
We have been personally affected or seen others affected, or are concerned about education and prevention of these debilitating diseases.
The current level of awareness, prevention, and medical diagnosis and treatment stance in PA w/these diseases is unacceptable.
For signers: you must be a PA Resident to sign this petition; we need your city, zip and email to include you - we don't want just a bunch of names with no way to validate them - this doesn't help us.
Your story helps tremendously.
And if you can, please ALSO email your story in more length of personal impact referring to your signature on this petition to:
dwhite@pasen.gov, and cc: your senator, and sgreenleaf@pasen.gov, the primary sponsor of the bill.
We the undersigned, are writing to you to ask you to take action on Senate Bill #1199, Lyme and Related Tick-Borne Disease Education, Prevention and Treatment Act.
This bill is very important to us because we have been personally affected by Lyme disease (see separate listing of our personal stories) - this bill is necessary to address current issues in the prevention, education, treatment and access to skilled care for these diseases.
We are specifically asking for consideration and a public hearing. This committee needs to know that this bill is very important to us, and necessary to the public of PA.
These diseases have been growing astronomically;
PA has been #1, 2 or 3 in the past in new cases, and the seriousness of their impact is growing as well.
The stories of those affected by these diseases, many of them children, are heartbreaking and cannot be ignored any longer
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it is unconscionable that patients afflicted by these diseases are not getting access to treatment that restores functionality, and returns good health.
Science has long over-turned the dated notions that underpin the narrow, acute understanding of these diseases reflected in the practices of the majority of medical practitioners today.
Thank you for your representation of our concerns, and support of this important legislation. And our great thanks to Senator Greenleaf who has taken the lead in rectifying the current situation with this bill.
signature
goal: 1,000
46
signatures!
Post edited by: Bettyg, at: 05/17/2012 12:37 PM
hope this helps you.