Thanks Zh,

Things of this nature are very personal to me. I work in healthcare and it is my job to obtain payment from the insurance companies for our physicians. In this process I see the stunts that insurance companies pull to get out of payment of their members claims. It's sick.

For far too long these insurance companies have been raking in the cash year after year, all the while raising our premiums.

Have you ever noticed the hoops one must jump through to get "authorization" from your insurance company to see a therapist. People get fed up with the obstacles and just end up paying for it out of pocket to avoid the frustration. It's very sad.

I am one of those people. My health insurance requires "pre-authorization" for my AD's (Effexor XR). Their reasoning behind this is because it's expensive, so they want me to use a drug from their "preferred list" so it saves them a buck, their not concerned at all that I am highly sensative to medications and I already PAXIL and it made me brain numb for 2 weeks.

Sorry, I get to rambling and there is no stopping me

There is a web site that I visit frequently to write my representative at www.congress.org

This web site allows you to enter in your zip code and send your letters via email to all of your respresentatives at once, and you have the choice to include "Dubya" as well.

I recently received a response back regarding one of the letters I wrote to my local delegate. I was very excited to get that letter. I felt like my issues were being heard.

Back to the point of the thread. It is very important that we get this bill passed.

Thanks,

Jen