Rescue
Health Care Day
April 1, 2000
For All Patients
& Professionals
Dear
Practitioner: Your
help is needed right away!
WHAT
IS RESCUE HEALTH CARE DAY (RHCD)?
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Nationwide Protests – marches, teach-ins, rallies
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Over
25 cities coast-to-coast holding rallies
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Six
rallies in NY State, with two on Long Island
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Local
Rally in Your Town
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Hundreds
of consumer and professional organizations supporting RHCD
PURPOSES:
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Declare
a national vote of “No Confidence” in the managed care industry
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Tell
Congress and policy makers we want a national dialogue on alternatives
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State
loud and clear that people are dying and others being harmed because
of managed care
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Blow
the whistle on managed care lies to the public
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State
clearly that practitioners are fed up with bureaucratic nightmares,
paperwork, and the pressure to under-treat their patients.
HOW
TO HELP:
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Make
copies of the accompanying flyer for Your Home
Town Rally
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Have
receptionist hand a flyer to each patient this week
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Keep
a fresh stack of flyers in your waiting room
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Fax
or send to your friends, colleagues and neighbors
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Come
to the rally: bring Friends, family, colleagues, patients who
have been harmed
Time
is short. YOU are needed
to help change health care in America.
Please do all you can.
Quality Health
Care with
Patient Choice, Privacy, and Decision-Making Power
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:
Karen
Shore, Ph.D., President, National Coalition of Mental Health Professionals
and Consumers, Commack, NY 1-888-SAY-NO-MC, NCMHPC@aol.com,
or 631-424-5232. Home: 516-997-3390,
Kshore@aol.com .
Ronald
Bronow, M.D., President, Physicians Who Care, Los Angeles, CA,
310-659-5692, Bronowrhcd@aol.com
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